Jessica Stern famous quotes

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.
-- Jessica Stern

#People #Anxiety #Narrative

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterward. A friend of mine, a soldier, put it this way. In most of our lives, most of the time, you have a sense of what is to come. There is a steady narrative, a feeling of "lights, camera, action" when big events are imminent. But trauma isn't like that. It just happens, and then life goes on. No one prepares you for it.
-- Jessica Stern

#Light #People #Feelings

I can still bring into my body the joy I felt at seeing the first trillium of spring, which seemed to be telling me, “Never give up hope, spring will come.”
-- Jessica Stern

#Giving Up #Spring #Joy

Never give up hope, spring will come.
-- Jessica Stern

#Giving Up #Spring #Never Give Up Hope

I have listened and I have been quiet all my life. But now I will speak.
-- Jessica Stern

#Quiet #Speak

Keep up your courage, stay true to what you believe in.
-- Jessica Stern

#Believe #Stay True

I will roar argon into chlorine, xenon into fluorine, all the noble gases into reactive ones My lament will terrify even the stars.
-- Jessica Stern

#Stars #Noble #Chlorine

The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply.

Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.

I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side.

The feeling that was born that night, how could i describe it?Words like love or lust just don't seem right. I may call it jealousy, or may be anxiety and moreover, need. Even now I'm anxious at times because when I am with Ren, everything around feels like a dream. That was how Ren turned my boring life into an illusion, and that was too much for no matter how hard i tried, it seemed I could never catch him.

No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Narrative is one of the best intoxicants or tranquilisers.

Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.

I write short, my words tight to the thread of the narrative.

Our culture thrives on black-and-white narratives, clearly defined emotions, easy endings, and so, this thrust into complexity exhausts.