T. J. Perkins Quotes

Everybody faces pain. Everybody has trauma.

I'm not in the business of suffering.

The longer I live, the less chance I'll ever recover from what life keeps doing to me.

Life's fairly excruciating. Painful things happen. Every now and then, you drag yourself out of the stream and stand on the bank gasping for air. I think that's how I work.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I got hit a lot. I'm glad I lived through it.

As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

I've dealt with a lot of physical pain, with a lot of emotional pain; anybody's who's ever been an alcoholic has handled both of those in extreme.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

Sometimes you almost have to laugh to keep from crying to deal with the pain associated with the 'hood.

People are all vulnerable in so many different ways. We go into survival mode a lot of times.

I've seen the hell these people go through.

My life was pretty rough.

It's true that I suffered a lot, especially when I was younger.

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

Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

Everybody had something horrible happen to them at one time or another in their life.

My goal is the same as every year - to not hurt myself.

It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

When you're in hell, you forget how great you really are because you're suffering and you forget the great things you've done.

If we take a hard look at what poverty is, its nature, it's not pretty - it's full of trauma.

There's many, many people who have been through a lot worse things than I went through. I lost my dad when I was 14 and to violence.

I forget a lot of things sometimes. I'm not one to sit here and complain. While I did not know the severity of what continuous head traumas could do to an individual and the mind and so forth, I'm not going to sit here and complain.

Everyone gets depressed. But what do you do? You just go through it.