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.

My traumatic experience was life changing

A constant human error: to believe in an end to one's fantasies. Our daydreams are the measure of our unreachable truth. The secret of all things lies in the emptiness of the formula that guard them.

Art is only important to the extent that it aids in the liberation of our people.

I spent most summers in Italy as a child either in Tuscany or at the Amalfi coast.

Everything is useful which contributes to fix in the principles and practices of virtue.

I know it sounds corny, but when you follow your dreams, it happens. And if it's music, take it seriously.

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.

Because the sinless Savior died My sinful soul is counted free. For God the just is satisfied To look on Him and pardon me.

When a woman starts talking about her duty, her regard for appearances, and her respect for religion, she raises so many bulwarks which she delights to see captured by storm.

Nationalism is the love which ties me to the blockheads of my country, to the insultors of my way of life, and to the desecrators of my language.

People act as though the hybrid could solve all of our problems - which is certainly not the case.