"People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul."

-- David Brooks

#People Quotes #Soul Quotes #Soldier Quotes

“I think I probably hoped for it a little bit, but I'm not an optimist. I'm a realist... or maybe even a pessimist.”
“I'm sure that whatever changed is only temporary. It will change again.”
“There are varied experiences of overweight women throughout the country; theres not just one experience.”
“Master water first and then paint.”
“I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.”
“I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man; I want a man without money rather than money without a man.”
“That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe.”

Source : John Berger (2008). “Selected Essays of John Berger”, p.569, Vintage
“Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.”

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