"I was brought up in the shadow of the Holocaust. My mother lost most of her family, and I didn't realize how much the guilt of survivorship weighed on her until I was an adult."

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Source : "Interview with author Naomi Benaron: Running the Rift". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. January 3, 2012.

Naomi Benaron

#Mother Quotes #Holocaust Quotes #Guilt Quotes

“Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.”
“In the next 15 or 20 years, I hope I'll be the richest man in the world. That's one of my goals. I want to be a billionaire. I want to get to a position where generation on generation don't have to worry about nothing. I don't want family members from my kids to my son's kids to never have to worry. And I can't do that now just playing basketball.”
“There is nothing wrong with being poor; but there is everything wrong with remaining poor after you have discovered your riches in Christ.”

Source : The Daily Telegraph, 1977.
“You don't have to be big to be great.”
“You're just always growing. I feel like it's been very fast growth, but super exciting and I know I'll look back and feel like 'Yes, things were stressful, but it was also such an exciting time.'”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“Earl Scruggs wears two finger picks and a thumb pick, and by alternating them, he can play about as fast as he wants. So it's this action. You know, you couldn't move one finger that fast, but all three, it's pretty easy, and it's kind of an incredible leap.”
“Guilt is not a response to anger; it is a response to one's own actions or lack of action.”
“This is an important lesson to remember when you're having a bad day, a bad month, or a shitty year. Things will change: you won't feel this way forever. And anyway, sometimes the hardest lessons to learn are the ones your soul needs most.”

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