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Aleksandra Gold
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“Trauma research has shown that what is primarily responsible for the consequences of trauma ... is ... the meaning that the victim ascribes to it in the context of his or her entire life.”
― Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation
― Trauma and Beyond: The Mystery of Transformation
“Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.”
― A Little Princess
― A Little Princess
“Genuine feelings cannot be produced, nor can they be eradicated. We can only repress them, delude ourselves, and deceive our bodies. The body sticks to the facts.”
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“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― The Secret Garden
― The Secret Garden
“The truth about our childhood is stored up in our body, and although we can repress it, we can never alter it. Our intellect can be deceived, our feelings manipulated, and conceptions confused, and our body tricked with medication. But someday our body will present its bill, for it is as incorruptible as a child, who, still whole in spirit, will accept no compromises or excuses, and it will not stop tormenting us until we stop evading the truth.”
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