Quotes about "Mental Health Recovery"

We go on multiplying our conveniences only to multiply our cares. We increase our possessions only to the enlargement of our anxieties. ”

In 'The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow,' part of the 'Dear America' series, I took my childhood bravery and stubbornness and put that at the core of the Navajo girl, Sarah Nita. It helped me to identify with her survival and to write about her courageous journey and that of her people. ”

It was the height of the Depression, and suddenly I am earning pots of money. ”

As his partner on this amazing journey, I can tell you Mitt Romney was not handed success. He built it. ”

I was born during the Depression in a little community just outside Waco, and I grew up listening to Franklin Roosevelt on the radio. ”

I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it. ”

I did have imprinted on me the idea of trauma that changes things dramatically and suddenly. As a writer, I return to that again and again because it fascinates me, and it's where I come from, in a sense. ”

I've never written a character that wasn't burdened by years of pain and trauma. Let's face it: Most comic-book heroes have some serious baggage. Not Green Arrow. He's a healthy guy - imagine that? Carrying your hero around in your head, imagining the world through his eyes, is just a hoot. ”

Katana is a trained, disciplined martial artist. She removes herself from Birds of Prey to go on a personal journey in Japantown, San Francisco, and pursue a quest for vengeance against the Sword Clan, the men that killed her husband. ”

My greatest hope is that we learn how trauma induces neurodegeneration in susceptible individuals. ”