"There is a comfort in knowing that you donâ€™t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal."

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Source : Ellen Bass, Laura Davis (2012). “Beginning to Heal (Revised Edition): A First Book for Men and Women Who Were Sexually Abused As Children”, p.9, Harper Collins

Ellen Bass

#Knowing Quotes #Comfort Quotes #Heal Quotes

“I have opened all the doors in my head. I have opened all the pores in my body. But only the tide rolls in.”

Source : Marilyn French (2011). “The Women's Room”, p.667, Simon and Schuster
“Remember the high board at the swimming pool? After days of looking up at it you finally climbed the wet steps to the platform. From there, it was higher than ever. There were only two ways down: the steps to defeat of the dive to victory. You stood on the edge, shivering in the hot sun, deathly afraid. At last you leaned too far forward, it was too late for retreat, and you dived. The high board was conquered, and you spent the rest of the day diving. Climbing a thousand high boards, we demolish fear, and turn into human beings.”
“Definitely the biggest misconception is that it is overly burdensome to be a woman and pursue this line of work. But being a woman gives me a unique perspective and style, which is probably why I get the work that I do.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Anti-alcoholics are unfortunates in the grip of water, that terrible poison, so corrosive that out of all substances it has been chosen for washing and scouring, and a drop of water added to a clear liquid like Absinthe, muddles it.”
“Every man should measure himself by his own standard. [Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.]”
“I have the ability to go back to the old days with the boys and remember what it was like playing music. I have that real connection to the feeling of playing music as a young man. I do. I can almost touch it.”

Source : "There's Something About Joel Plaskett". stickymagazine.com. October 11, 2013.
“Visual art and writing don't exist on an aesthetic hierarchy that positions one above the other, because each is capable of things the other can't do at all. Sometimes one picture is equal to 30 pages of discourse, just as there are things images are completely incapable of communicating.”
“The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, 'I made my parents proud.'”

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