Bruce D. Perry famous quotes

For years mental health professionals taught people that they could be psychologically healthy without social support, that “unless you love yourself, no one else will love you.”…The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Love You #Years #People

The truth is, you cannot love yourself unless you have been loved and are loved. The capacity to love cannot be built in isolation.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Love You #Isolation #Truth Is

Relationships matter: the currency for systemic change was trust, and trust comes through forming healthy working relationships. People, not programs, change people.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#People #Healthy #Matter

Fire can warm or consume, water can quench or drown, wind can caress or cut. And so it is with human relationships: we can both create and destroy, nurture and terrorize, traumatize and heal each other.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Cutting #Fire #Wind

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Powerful #Children #Healthy

It is the rare and strong person that can carry their trauma without having it spill into the next generation.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Strong #Generations #Next

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Powerful #Agents #Therapy

More than 35 percent of the children exposed to a single traumatic event will develop serious mental health problems .. The real crisis of Katrina is the hundreds of thousands of ravaged, displaced and traumatized children.
-- Bruce D. Perry

#Children #Real #Events

No man has ever loved a woman as much as I love you. Nothing will ever come before you. I don’t know what else I have to do to prove to you that I won’t let you down again. I won’t hurt you. You don’t have to be alone anymore. I need you.

That's when you know for sure somebody loves you. They figure out what you need and they give it to you - without you asking.

Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough, And stands about the woodland ride Wearing white for Eastertide. Now, of my threescore years and ten, Twenty will not come again, And take from seventy springs a score, It only leaves me fifty more. And since to look at things in bloom Fifty springs are little room, About the woodlands I will go To see the cherry hung with snow.

The year showed me beyond a doubt that everyone practices cafeteria religion... But the important lesson was this: there's nothing wrong with choosing. Cafeterias aren't bad per se... the key is in choosing the right dishes. You need to pick the nurturing ones (compassion), the healthy ones (love thy neighbor), not the bitter ones.

Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

God does not so much want us to do things as to let people see what He can do.

Often we want people to pray for us and help us, but we always defeat our object when we look too much to them and lean upon them. The true secret of union is for both to look upon God, and in the act of looking past themselves to Him they are unconsciously united.

The bells they sound on Bredon, And still the steeples hum. "Come all to church, good people"- Oh, noisy bells, be dumb; I hear you, I will come.

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