Trauma can have a masking effect.

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.

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

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.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

They see me smile, but the don't know what I feel inside.

I wish you the best that can be hoped for, and no worse than can be expected.

Even if you look in the dictionary you know the meaning of the word or phrase, but there's still the feeling of it.

Poets arguing about modern poetry: jackals snarling over a dried-up well.

I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.

The first Matrix genius, the second one, what's up with the dancing? I haven't even seen the third one.

The first goal and primary function of the U.S. public school is not to educate good people, but good citizens. It is the function which we call - in enemy nations - 'state indoctrination.'

What the psychedelics are for us as a species, rather than for each one of us as an individual, what they are for us as a species is an enzyme that catalyzes the language-making capacity.

Don't go chasin' waterfalls. Please stick to the rivers and the lakes that you're used to.