Breaking Cycles Quotes

“If it weren’t for her setting me free, I may still be a caged bird today, holding my own daughter captive on a shit-laden perch.”
― Raquel Cepeda, Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina

“… and the Baudelaire orphans climbed aboard, turning the tables of their lives and breaking their unfortunate cycle for the very first time.”
― Lemony Snicket, The Grim Grotto

“Now, we all have stories of how we got here, and prob-probably some of you feel angry who whoever it is who's left you here. But you must try and remember that they were like that because that's how they were taught to be. You m-must try to forgive them. Baby cuckoos can't unlearn their bad habits. But we should try to, and because what you learn as a ch-child you will pass on to people around you, from now on this house is going to be a house of happiness. From this evening on every single one of us is going to consider other people's feelings.”
― Georgia Byng

“I accept when I am wrong because that only makes me strong.”
― The Thoughtful Beast

“Your personality may not reflect your true, authentic, and highest self, but a version of you that is operating through deep layers of trauma.”
― Dr. Mariel Buqué

“Breaking the cycle isn’t glamorous. It’s lonely, it’s bloody, but it’s worth it.”
― Marion Bekoe