{"quotes":[{"text":"Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is particularly common in survivors of combat, political torture, or natural or transportation disasters.","author":"Marlene Steinberg","tags":["amnesia","catastrophe","combat","complex-trauma","concentration-camp-survivor","concentration-camps","consciousness","dissociated","dissociation","dissociative","memory","political-prisoners","psychology","soldiers","survivor","torture","trauma","trauma-survivors"],"id":2764,"author_id":"Marlene+Steinberg"},{"text":"She wore her scarsas her best attire.A stunning dressmade of hellfire.","author":"Daniel Saint","tags":["hell","inspirational","pain","poem","poetry","rise-above","scars","strength","strong","stronger","survivor"],"id":3082,"author_id":"Daniel+Saint"},{"text":"You think maybe if you just work harder and faster, you can hold off the chaos, but then one day you’re changing a patio light bulb with a five-year life span and you realize how you’ll only be changing this light maybe ten more times before you’ll be dead.","author":"Chuck Palahniuk","tags":["chuck-palahniuk","philosophy","survivor"],"id":8783,"author_id":"Chuck+Palahniuk"},{"text":"I am passionate about the things that I believe in like equality, free will, justice and love.","author":"Trish Kaye Lleone","tags":["passion","survivor","women"],"id":14552,"author_id":"Trish+Kaye+Lleone"},{"text":"The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.","author":"Aberjhani","tags":["at-risk-people","at-risk-youth","brokenness","compassion","counseling","empowerment-and-attitude","healing","healing-the-emotional-self","healing-the-past","helping-others","human-rights-day","humility","intervention","recovery","remembrances","suicidal","suicide","survival","survivor","survivors","survivors-of-war","survivorship","war-veterans","word-definitions"],"id":16733,"author_id":"Aberjhani"},{"text":"Secrets are truths that show what we’ve been through—what we’ve survived.","author":"Dannika Dark","tags":["hidden","hiding","revealed","secrets","survive","survived","survivor","thruth","thruths","wisdom"],"id":17151,"author_id":"Dannika+Dark"},{"text":"She turned back to the reporter, holding out the microphone. “I'm not an expert, I'm a survivor. I hope you can learn how to be one yourself.","author":"Rose Wynters","tags":["common-sense","fighting-back","life","living","survivor","zombies"],"id":28090,"author_id":"Rose+Wynters"},{"text":"I could not feel, smell, see, hear, or taste the world around me. If I had allowed myself to experience these things in all their intensity, I might have lost my mind. If I had allowed myself to cry, I might never have been able to stop. So I survived, but I never felt joy, never felt safe.","author":"Yeonmi Park","tags":["activist","biography","inspirational","memoir","suffering","survival","survivor","woman"],"id":28831,"author_id":"Yeonmi+Park"},{"text":"She’d lost so much in the process of becoming Zyne, but somewhere in the middle of it all, she’d found herself. Her heritage had shattered her illusions of a tranquil life. Destiny swept behind in a blaze, decimating everything she tried to hold on to. She was left alone, like the solitary tree standing after a forest fire. She’d thought she would crumble to ash, just another memory on the wind. But as blackened pieces of her cracked and fell away, she saw the truth. Under all that charred wreckage was the heartwood. Bruised. Scarred. But still good. Still capable of growth. When she looked in the mirror, she no longer saw a victim, but a survivor.","author":"Gwen Mitchell","tags":["grief-and-loss","growth","healing-the-past","love","strength","survivor","transformation"],"id":39576,"author_id":"Gwen+Mitchell"},{"text":"Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim--letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.","author":"C.R. Strahan","tags":["forgiveness","pain","self-perception","survivor","victim"],"id":45537,"author_id":"C.R.+Strahan"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":144,"pages":15,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}