Dr. Patricia Dsouza Lobo > Dr. Patricia's Quotes

“You possess the right to celebrate your victory, your healing, your recovery.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Abuse never portrays you!”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Survivors who choose to heal are extraordinary people.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Life is beautiful, it’s what you make out of it!”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“We are more than survivors, more than victors!”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Whole night hanged with panic Sparking tears in those big wide eyes.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Even if I had friends or people around me it did not matter anymore, I always felt isolated and unique from all around me. From looking at me, no one would ever have presumed how much chaos was running short on within me.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“I can identify with their shame and ache because I share a past of childhood abuse. In this, I am convinced: if I can do this, you definitely can too.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Let’s take away your emphasis from the awkward task of altering your past and move towards focusing more on the achievable purpose of changing our TODAY, TOMORROW and BEYOND!”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Most of the time I pretended that everything was okay with me and all things were normal.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“She fought to relive and come alive”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“The Pain is too much to bear She weeps within; As she grinds her teeth with a grin”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Your perspective of life may be a finite one, but you are neither finite nor limited! Refuse to live with guilt or regret. Refuse to see yourself as not good enough. you are totally sufficient in your health, wealth, citizenship & abundance.”
― Patricia Dsouza

“Exceptional that's ME
Another ME there will never BE
No loss is known in ME”
― Patricia Dsouza

“Make peace within you now. Set free and stop battling within. Choose yourself over and over.”
― Patricia Dsouza

“Abuse ambushed my life, I could not love myself truly and could never have a healthy relationship, they were either abused or completely impaired.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“I experience what it is to exist in perpetual fear, afraid, totally controlled, manipulated, ashamed at all times and many more things one can’t still think to talk around.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“I would look and thirst for real love in all the wrong places and it was taken advantage of by all the wrong hands that hold me.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Welcome every challenge
and adventure with an Open arm,
Tomorrow is yours.
You can Create your own Future.”
― Patricia Dsouza

“Burst the Anguish Within!
Allow it to pierce every nerve deep in your skin.”
― Patricia Dsouza

“Mia bottled all this up inside of her and just couldn’t manage it any longer. Mia would feel like it was entirely her fault, what he did stay with her always.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“The worst part ever is discoursing about the abuse to anyone you trust in the family or friends and when they prefer not to believe in you, that feeling of being deserted by people you trusted and spoke to is even more painful than the whole trauma of the abuse and insult.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“If a child is abused by a family member, most likely they blame themselves for the integral act of abuse than those that are abused by outsiders.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“I can just conceive of the pit of despair, the notion of being powerless and the essence of existence through it entirely”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“The frailty of those dark hours during the period of abuse persuades the child to think that they are incapable of causing any nature of impact to themselves or the world they live in.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“When they begin to feel that others don’t love them, they already consider their worth and consider that they are not worth living at all.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“They illustrate that since no one really loves or cares for them, why should they love or care for themselves?”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Abused children as they grow to believe that they are damaged beyond repair.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed

“Parents that provide a nonviolent, fostering, strong and steady background for their children assist in impede violence and abuse in their households.”
― Patricia Dsouza, When Roses are Crushed