Secure attachment has been linked to a child's ability to successfully recover and prove resilient in the presence of a traumatic event.

A child's attachment process begins within the first year of life...

There is no debating that the effects of trauma experienced in childhood may have grave consequences.

Attachments that are not fostered may lend to the child's inability to properly attach or have no attachment at all.

Perception is a vice with which each person is capable of perceiving his or her reality.

Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.

Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework...

Abuse may consist of physical maltreatment or language that is belittling, discriminatory...

Trauma may be endured through a physiological or psychological threat to life or overall wellbeing.

My traumatic experience was life changing

You really will be better off in life if you read a lot.

Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.

You can trust your gut instinct. Always.

A day an hour of virtuous liberty is worth a whole eternity in bondage.

Error can point the way to truth, while empty-headedness can only lead to more empty-headedness or to a career in politics.

We believe a scientist because he can substantiate his remarks, not because he is eloquent and forcible in his enunciation. In fact, we distrust him when he seems to be influencing us by his manner.

You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.

I've got a swimming pool and I pretend to be like a mermaid, like in the middle of the night. It kind of de-stresses me.

There is not the least flower but seems to hold up its head, and to look pleasantly, in the secret sense of the goodness of its Heavenly Maker.

I make Jessica Simpson look like a rock scientist.