“Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.”— Jan Hawkins Related Quotes “But a central message there is, and it is the recognition of this that has led to the common treatment of the Bible as a book, and not simply a collection of books – just as the Greek plural biblia (books) became the Latin singular biblia (the book).”— Philip W. Comfort “The nature of compassion isn’t coming to terms with your own suffering and applying it to others: It’s knowing that other folks around you suffer and, no matter what happens to you, no matter how lucky or unlucky you are, they keep suffering. And if you can do something about that, then you do it, and you do it without whining or waving your own fuckin’ cross for the world to see. You do it because it’s the right thing to do.”— John Connolly “Keedwell cites a study of depression in the Netherlands that found that most people coped better with adversity after experiencing depression.”— Jan Wong