Repeated trauma requires you to create a system of defenses that protects you. And these protections were so important. They saved your life. They protected your real self.

Gretchen L. Schmelzer

We all have internal struggles and personal challenges. Do not let anyone make you feel bad about yours.

Izey Victoria Odiase

A good rule of thumb is that any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment.

Laurie Helgoe

To hurt is as human as to breathe.

J.K. Rowling

Acceptance doesn't mean resignation; it means understanding that something is what it is and that there's got to be a way through it.

Michael J. Fox

Those who can laugh without cause have either found the true meaning of happiness or have gone stark raving mad.

Norm Papernick