Quotes About Strength

Surprisingly, it is often when wandering through the emotional carnage left by the worst of humankind that we find the best of humanity ad well.

The capacity to control your dissociative capabilities is very powerful. It allows people to be good at reflective cognition. It allows people to have intense focus on a specific task. Hypnosis, flow, being "in the zone"-all of these are examples of the trance state that dissociation allows. People who learn to control when and how they go into a trance state have a gift…be careful about labeling dissociation as a pathology…It can be an incredible strength.

Social connection builds resilience, and resilience helps create post-traumatic wisdom, and that wisdom leads to hope. Hope for you and hope for others witnessing and participating in your healing, hope for your community.

To create an effective "memory" and increase strength, experience has to be patterned and repetitive.

Indeed, if moderate, predictable and patterned, it is stress that makes a system stronger and more functionally capable.

black? She was beginning to think that she might be able

Because what I know for sure is that everything that has happened to you was also happening for you. And all that time, in all of those moments, you were building strength.

What happened to you can be your power.

the control she gained over the situation allowed her to manage her anxiety such that it minimized the effects that the abuse had on her daily life.

In the powerful words of the poem "Invictus," I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.

demonstrated resilience and high academic achievement despite a range of adversities including poverty, traumatic loss, and community or intra-family violence.

The wise learn how to carry their burden with grace, often to protect others from the emotional intensity of their pain.

And you can go to places in your head and imagine things in the future in ways that a lot of people have a hard time doing. That's dissociation. It's healthy, healing, and productive. That is why people need to be careful about labeling dissociation as a pathology, as strictly negative behavior. It can also be an incredible strength.

Connectedness has the power to counterbalance adversity.

A man may be down, but he is never out.

Never settle with words what you can accomplish with a flamethrower.

We see many people loving with an immature love: Love equals doing something to somebody or for somebody; Love equals taking care of someone; Love equals achieving; Love equals always being in control; Love equals 'never having to say you're sorry;' Love equals always being strong; Love equals being nice.

piercing a headwind,

air." Jack scowled. His practice had really paid off—his whole face bunched up like a muscle-man's fist. Rocky and Bosco pushed up to standing. Rocky's brawny shoulders flexed like two

A fight is not won by one punch or kick. Either learn to endure or hire a bodyguard

Boards don't hit back, O'Hara

Boards don't hit back.

Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.

Emotion can be the enemy, if you give into your emotion, you lose yourself. You must be at one with your emotions, because the body always follows the mind.