Quotes About Impact

The thing that's important to remember about PTSD is that a traumatic event affects different people differently.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, Dr. King had said, what are you doing for others?

You would think bearing witness to something like this would make a difference, and yet this isn't so. In the newspapers I have read about history repeating itself in Cambodia. Rwanda. Sudan.

My mother moves so fast I do not even see it coming. But she slaps my face hard enough to make my head snap backward. She leaves a print that stains me long after it's faded. Just so you know: shame is five-fingered.

I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way. "But," she continued, "don't forget where you came from.

Do we grieve because the person we lost was such a light in the world? Or do we grieve because of who he was to us?

history has a habit of repeating itself, doesn't someone have to stay behind to shout out a warning? If not me, then who?

Well, as long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

one person's trauma is another's loss of innocence. Ervin

A staccato kiss

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. —Anne Frank

Does it even mean anything to him anymore? If you say the same words over and over, do they become so bleached that there's no color left in them?

And afterward, when the leaves turned and the snow came, every now and then I would rise in everyone's minds like a tide.

Raw love, like raw heart-ache, could blindside you.

Hold a thought in your head, and that was enough to change the actions of anyone and anything that crossed your path.

Something still exists as long as there's someone around to remember it, right?" Lacy

Aku menyayangimu, kataku, suaraku terdengar hampa karena tangis. Aku sangat menyayangimu hingga aku tak tahu aku akan hidup dengan siapa jika kau tidak ada. Dan bahkan jika usahaku menghabiskan waktu seluruh hidupku, aku akan membuatmu paham kenapa hidupmu membuat perbedaan.

Cruelty is always sort of fun until you realize that something's getting hurt. It

long as someone remembers you, you never really die.

one person's trauma is another's loss of innocence.

Mayflies have the shortest life span on earth. Like, twenty-four hours. Wouldn't you feel terrible if you caused an even more untimely death?

Fiction is like that, once it is released into the world: contagious, persistent.

Sunnie. Sometimes you got to think about whether you want someone to be a piece of fabric that fits into your life or not. As you sew the strips in, they become a part of what you do, how you think, how you end up. Good or bad, that's something you can never rip out and remake.

Nobody wants to admit to this, but bad things will keep on happening. Maybe that's because it's all a chain, and a long time ago someone did the first bad thing, and that led someone else to do another bad thing, and so on.