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“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
― Laurell K. Hamilton, Mistral's Kiss

“When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert

“That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.”
― Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation

“One eye sees, the other feels.”
― Paul Klee

“I hate and I love. Why do I do this, you may ask? I do not know, but I feel it, and I am tortured.”
― Catullus

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic

“Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.”
― Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam

“I don't think you realize how strong you are, because sometimes strength isn't swords and steel and fire, as we are so often made to believe. Sometimes it's found in quiet, gentle places.”
― Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals

“I can survive it. I’d rather survive it than never feel it.”
― Taylor Jenkins Reid, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

“Rage is faster than reason.”
― Minna Dubin, Mom Rage: The Everyday Crisis of Modern Motherhood

“As long as we live, there’s the risk that you might suffer more. There’s also the opportunity to find a way to suffer less, to choose happiness, which requires taking responsibility for yourself.”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“How can I be useful to you?” How can I support you as you take responsibility for yourself?”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“..(To) work through the fears underlying her resistance to pursuing what she wanted. I asked her two questions: What's the worst that could happen? and Can you survive it?”
― Edith Eger, The Choice: Embrace the Possible

“There is no purity to bearing pain alone.”
― Gabrielle Zevin, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“In the rare hopeful hour, I tell myself this darkness has a purpose: to help me recognize light if I ever find it again.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Wren no longer sees life as a long, linear ladder with a beginning, middle, and end. Instead, she considers how life is like a spiraling trail up a mountain. Each circling lap represents a learning cycle, the same lesson at a slightly higher elevation. Wren realizes she likes to rest as much as she likes to climb. She begins to enjoy the view.”
― Emily Habeck, Shark Heart

“Thinking other people have it worst doesn't actually diminish your own trauma, it just diminishes your power to heal.”
― Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD

“One person's brain doesn't know what another person's brain has experienced. . . What happened to you is all that matters in [a conversation about trauma], and what happened to me is totally irrelevant.”
― Jason Kander, Invisible Storm: A Soldier’s Memoir of Politics and PTSD