Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a condition that affects millions of individuals worldwide, resulting from distressing events. Understanding this condition and the emotions attached to it can foster empathy and support for those affected. Quotes about PTSD can offer comfort, inspiration, and understanding to sufferers and their loved ones, creating a sense of solidarity and shared experience. Whether it’s words of encouragement, acknowledgment of struggles, or sentiments embracing healing, these quotes can be a source of solace and strength. This collection will delve into various angles of PTSD, offering insights into the journey of recovery and awareness.
Hope and Resilience Quotes
"In the face of adversity, our resilience is our greatest gift." - Unknown
"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says, ‘I’ll try again tomorrow’." - Mary Anne Radmacher
"The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it." - C.C. Scott
"Healing is not linear but it is still a journey worth taking." - Unknown
"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." - Confucius
"Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed." - Mason Cooley
"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start." - Nido Qubein
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Turn your wounds into wisdom." - Oprah Winfrey
"The strongest people are those who win battles we know nothing about." - Unknown
"Resilience is born by grounding yourself in your own loveliness, hitting notes you thought were way out of your range." - Gregory Boyle
"You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." - Bob Marley
Understanding and Awareness Quotes
"Sometimes the worst place you can be is in your own head." - Unknown
"Understanding the past means seeing it in its own terms; moving beyond the past means seeing it in your terms." - Doug McAdam
"Awareness is the greatest agent for change." - Eckhart Tolle
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." - Maya Angelou
"True empathy requires that you step outside your own emotions to view things entirely from the perspective of the other person." - Anonymous
"It's not the trauma you remember, but the survivor you are." - Unknown
"The only journey worth taking is the journey within." - Rainer Maria Rilke
"Empathy is about finding echoes of another person in yourself." - Mohsin Hamid
"Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose." - Michele Rosenthal
"Recovery is not one and done. It is a lifelong journey that takes place one day, one step at a time." - Unknown
"An awareness of one’s own inseparability from the rest of the world makes healing possible." - Michael Lerner
"Healing is not about changing who you are, but changing your relationship to who you are." - Suzanne Heyn
Comfort and Support Quotes
"Sometimes it takes an overwhelming breakdown to have an undeniable breakthrough." - Unknown
"Be gentle with yourself, you’re doing the best you can." - Unknown
"There is no greater burden than carrying an untold story." - Maya Angelou
"Healing requires from us to stop struggling but to enjoy life more and endure it less." - Darina Stoyanova
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"Letting go doesn’t mean you forget the things that happened, it just means freeing yourself from the things that are holding you back." - Unknown
"People start to heal the moment they feel heard." - Cheryl Richardson
"Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go." - Roy T. Bennett
"Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time." - Og Mandino
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert Humphrey
"The best way to heal wounds is to refuse to open them. Get rid of the bandage and let them dry up." - Unknown
"When you are willing to listen to another person's concerns, you give them the ability to illuminate their own path to healing." - Unknown
Strength and Courage Quotes
"Strength doesn’t come from what you can do; it comes from overcoming the things you thought you couldn’t." - Rikki Rogers
"Without fear, there cannot be courage." - Christopher Paolini
"It is not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it." - Lou Holtz
"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear." - Mark Twain
"Fall seven times, stand up eight." - Japanese Proverb
"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny." - C.S. Lewis
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts." - Winston S. Churchill
"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival." - Michele Harvey
"We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward." - Isabel Allende
"Courage is found in unlikely places." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"You are enough just as you are." - Meghan Markle
Healing and Recovery Quotes
"Recovery is a process. It takes time. It takes patience. It takes everything you’ve got." - Unknown
"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life." - Unknown
"The wound is the place where the light enters you." - Rumi
"For every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, ‘I survived.’" - Craig Scott
"Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather realizing that you have to start over." - Nicole Sobon
"The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind." - Caroline Myss
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos
"Embrace what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be." - Sonia Ricotti
"To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear." - Stephen Levine
"Patience is the key to joy, both in awaiting the change and in allowing oneself to care deeply." - Unknown
"Survivor isn’t a label you choose; it’s a story you embrace with each breath." - Unknown
"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are." - Rachel Naomi Remen
Empathy and Understanding Quotes
"Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength while loving someone deeply gives you courage." - Lao Tzu
"Empathy is seeing with the eyes of another, listening with the ears of another and feeling with the heart of another." - Alfred Adler
"To be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love with all my soul." - Francis of Assisi
"Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms." - Sterling K. Brown
"When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen." - Ernest Hemingway
"Listening is often the only thing needed to help someone." - Unknown
"Compassion is the basis of all morality." - Arthur Schopenhauer
"The most powerful way to end a conflict is to listen." - Unknown
"There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather
"Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding." - Albert Einstein
"We need empathy, we need the eyes to see the heart and the human worth of every person as an individual." - Lubomir Kavalek
"If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced." - Vincent Van Gogh
Courage to Face PTSD Quotes
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you fill it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change." - Unknown
"The best view comes after the hardest climb." - Unknown
"With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity." - Mark Twain
"Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars." - Khalil Gibran
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." - Margaret Thatcher
"Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful." - Joshua J. Marine
"A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles." - Christopher Reeve
"Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step." - Naeem Callaway
"Survival is not enough – we all need to find ways to heal." - Unknown
"You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus Aurelius
"No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." - Robin Williams
"Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspiration for Moving Forward Quotes
"Success is not how high you have climbed, but how you make a positive difference to the world." - Roy T. Bennett
"What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly." - Richard Bach
"Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life." - Steve Jobs
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does." - William James
"Do not wait; the time will never be just right. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along." - George Herbert
"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly." - Proverb
"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream." - C.S. Lewis
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves." - William Shakespeare
"Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin." - Tony Robbins
Love and Compassion Quotes
"Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey." - Lord Byron
"Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives." - C.S. Lewis
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love." - Hubert H. Humphrey
"Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do." - David Wilkerson
"The best thing to hold onto in life is each other." - Audrey Hepburn
"To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." - David Viscott
"Where there is love there is life." - Mahatma Gandhi
"We are most alive when we’re in love." - John Updike
"The only thing we never get enough of is love; and the only thing we never give enough of is love." - Henry Miller
"There is always madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"True love stories never have endings." - Richard Bach
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller
Reflections on Overcoming Trauma Quotes
"To overcome is to begin healing." - Unknown
"Trauma is a fact of life. It does not, however, have to be a life sentence." - Peter A. Levine
"It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters." - Epictetus
"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before." - Elizabeth Edwards
"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept the apology you never got." - Robert Brault
"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know." - Pema Chodron
"Remember, the entrance door to the sanctuary is inside you." - Rumi
"In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself." - Deepak Chopra
"It’s not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit." - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Rocks in my path? I keep them all, with them I shall build my castle." - Nemo Nox
"Every day is a new life to a wise man." - Dale Carnegie
"The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy." - Unknown
Final words
PTSD is a challenging journey, but one that is surmountable with perseverance, understanding, and support. The quotes compiled here aim to inspire strength and provide comfort, serving as reminders that healing and recovery are not only possible but also inherently beautiful processes. They emphasize that resilience is a shared human trait, a bond between sufferers and supporters alike. In embracing these thoughts and fostering empathy, every quote marks a step toward building a community that helps in healing. Whether for personal encouragement or offering solace to others, let these words be a beacon of hope, illuminating paths to recovery and creating connections that transcend the trauma.
