Breaking The Cycle Quotes

“I will not sleep
If that's what it takes
To not wake up
As my mother”
― Casey Renee Kiser, Hold Me Under: Poems to Drown to

“All the best and worse things in us are bound up in the legacy of our family. As children we ardently trust in the stability or, in some cases, the instability we were born into. No matter which...we embraced what was decent while simultaneously suppressing what was deficient yet both traits weaved roots of faithfulness and consternation into the very fabric of who we've become. This now plays significantly into how we nurture our own families and how we relate to others. Our love, our fears, our insecurities, and our loyalties all draw from how we were raised as well as our inherent desire to shift its paradigm to optimistically better the life of not just our children...but our children's children. That's the gift and or the curse of a legacy. Which will you leave behind?”
― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence

“There hadn’t been a plan. Nothing beyond breaking the circle, beyond surviving, and killing him was how she survived. So, now that it was done, how did she keep on surviving?”
― Holly Jackson, As Good As Dead

“We have been living and reliving George Orwell’s Animal Farm allegory since the beginning of civilization. We have played out the win-lose, conquer or be conquered scenario, and now most people understand that this approach to winning is not sustainable, meaningful or fun.”
― Michele Hunt, DreamMakers: Innovating for the Greater Good

“The old story where the central plot is money and power define success, is fundamentally flawed. History has repeatedly proven that this story doesn’t work. It causes pain, suffering and fear; it destroys life and our planet; and it dampens the human spirit. In this narrative, those oppressed by the money-power society inevitably rebel, take over, and sadly repeat the same destructive cycle.”
― Michele Hunt, DreamMakers: Innovating for the Greater Good

“Not much is truly holy in this world, but precious is the person who does not pass on the pain and the desire for retribution, that self-sustaining spiral; who says, “No more,” not out of resignation or defeat, but out of something that might be called love, if it even needs a name.

It became clear to me now what my father had given me. He had broken the cycle.”
― Darran Anderson, Inventory: A Memoir

“You survive when you don't repeat the cycle, but you thrive when you create a new legacy and trajectory. Conscious awareness and effort are what separate someone who thrives from someone who survives. You can consciously create a different life, and those who do are known as "cyclebreakers.”
― Nedra Glover Tawwab, Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships

“FORGIVENESS is giving yourself permission to be the divine and loving soul that you are. It is the only GIFT that FREES you from your past.”
― Janice Romney