Aurora Levins Morales Quotes

What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

Aurora Levins Morales

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• This feeling of not belonging to the same sensation which grips you in a dream, you find yourself walking through an unfamiliar district. On waking you realize, little by little, that the pattern of its streets had overlaid with the one with which, in day time, you are familiar.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Time
  • Dream
  • Feeling

• I suppose I do the Japanese because I just don't know China. Chinese popular culture has never evoked that instant of, "Whoah! What's that?" that I have with Japanese popular culture.

  

  William Gibson
  • Culture
  • Chinese
  • Instant

• To all the girls that think you’re fat because you’re not a size zero, you’re the beautiful one, its society who’s ugly.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Society
  • Girls
  • Size

• Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • Hide
  • Cupcakes
  • Pantry

• The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that somewhat.

  

  Charlize Theron
  • Idea
  • Hanging
  • African

• I have a great wife and it's very easy to be romantic because it makes her happy and then my life is so much better when she's happy.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wife

• This whole theory [of John Law and Jean Terrasson], as dear to French financial schemers in the eighteenth century as to American "Greenbackers" in the nineteenth, had resulted, under the Orleans Regency and Louis XV, in ruin to France financially and morally, had culminated in the utter destruction of all prosperity, the rooting out of great numbers of the most important industries, and the grinding down of the working people even to starvation.

  

  Andrew Dickson White
  • Theory
  • Destruction
  • Starvation

• Our cricket is too gentle - all of it.

  

  Alec Stewart
  • Cricket
  • Gentle

• For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain.

  

  Adam Lindsay Gordon
  • Good
  • Gifts
  • Resolutions

• Because: Love Never Dies, What is Within is More Important than What is Without, The Best is Not Always the Most Obvious and Once You've Loved Truly, Thor, then You Know the Way.

  

  Cressida Cowell
  • Important
  • Love
  • Never

• When you shoot someone who is fleeing, it's not self-defense. It's an execution.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Defense
  • Execution
  • Fleeing

• I'm beyond excited to join the cast of 'Switched At Birth' and to be part of such a great show on a great network.

  

  Rachel Shenton
  • Beyond
  • Network
  • Switched

• The more you know of your history, the more liberated you are.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • History
  • Know
  • Liberated

• In that very moment in my office, Bill was obviously seeing the same images, smelling the same smells, and feeling the same physical sensations he had felt during the original event. Ten years after helplessly holding a dying baby in his arms, Bill was reliving the trauma in response to an inkblot.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Images
  • Trauma
  • Sensations

• After a great loss, after a difficult victory, after suffering extreme trauma, she wished she could have some time to hibernate. Not two days. Two years. Some serious time to pull herself together. Why did life always have to roll relentlessly forward? Why was every victory or defeat followed by new works and new problems?

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Suffering
  • Problems
  • Victory

• What is required to face trauma is the ability to mourn, fully and deeply, all that has been taken from us. Only through mourning everything we have lost can we discover that we have in fact survived; that our spirits are indestructible.

  

  Aurora Levins Morales
  • Trauma
  • Survived
  • Required