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

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Source : Bruce D. Perry, Maia Szalavitz (2017). “The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook--What Traumatized Children Can Teach Us About Loss, Love, and Healing”, p.85, Hachette UK

Bruce D. Perry

#People Quotes #Healthy Quotes #Matter Quotes

“So many things were going great in my life and then all of the sudden my personal life just went down at crazy speeds. I had a negative breakdown and it changed my life forever, but I'm glad that it did, because if I had never gone into the treatment ... I don't know if, one, I'd even be sitting here today. Two, if I'd be alive today.”
“When you work in TV, it's such a group effort, it's not about you.”
“That's why I hate to take credit for the songs I've written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it's been done and I'm just a courier bringing it out into the world.”
“When I was 13, I asked for a guitar. And that's how I really started explaining my point of view.”
“In the meantime, I could withdraw to my room, could hide and sleep as if I were dead”
“Royalty is but a feather in a man's cap; let children enjoy their rattle.”
“Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.”
“I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise.”

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