Lauren DeStefano Quotes

If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.

For people like me, who have blocked out a chunk of their past, you wonder - if you open that door, if you walk into that room of your memories, what will happen? Will it destroy you or will it make you stronger?

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?

Of course I get hurt.

I think there are spirits who are just too frail for the events life throws at them. Where do these people hide, and how do they survive?

I don't need to manufacture trauma in my life to be creative. I have a big enough reservoir of sadness or emotional trauma to last me.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.

A failed personal experience is just fear and anxiety.

Isolating, shutting down, and feeling guilt about pain makes it linger so much longer. Reconnecting, trusting, and being open and honest is really the only cure. Reaching out and talking to loved ones and friends is a must.

I may cry ruining my make up, Wash away all things you've taken.. I don't care if I don't look pretty, Big girls cry when their hearts are breaking.

The spiritual life is a life beyond moods. It is a life in which we choose joy and do not allow ourselves to become victims of passing feelings of happiness or depression.

When you have a sound mind, you can do what's necessary.

Depression seems to be related to fear, anger and frustration. When you're in a bad mood, even if you meet with your friends, you don't take pleasure in their company. But when you're in a good mood, even if things go wrong, you can cope with them without difficulty. This is why putting yourself in a good mood, making a point of developing a sense of loving kindness gives you greater inner strength.

It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

I'm a normal person. I have emotions.

It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

But there were times when you felt miserable and you wanted to feel better, and other times when you felt miserable and you figured you would just keep on feeling miserable.

Sanity is permanent, neurosis is temporary.

It's okay not to be okay... Sometimes it's hard, to follow your heart but tears don't mean you're losing, everybody's bruising, there's nothing wrong with who you are.

Pull yourself together' is seldom said to anyone who can.

I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows. And I think those lows are important. But I am not totally paralyzed, and it keeps me from just complete state of paralysis - and emotionally and really kind of almost physically.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.