“I learned in therapy the word "No" is a complete sentence.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I don't believe in hate. To me it wastes too much time. People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“We live in a world where we rarely speak out and when someone does, often nobody is there to listen.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I enjoy life so much more now, and I try hard to appreciate each and every day, but deep down I am still afraid it will be taken away.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Hearts become attached as easily as they become broken and our minds are left sifting through the pieces, which I fear take a lifetime to put back together to achieve any form of acceptance.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Love is not part time and its not conditional. I learned this from my mom.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Love is the easy part; it's the living without the love you need is hard.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“There are moments in which all of us need to have a backbone and feel that we have the right to say no to adults if we believe they are doing the wrong thing. You must find your voice and not be afraid to speak up.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“A light that I thought had been extinguished was slowly coming back to life.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Ask yourself, "what would you do to survive?”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“The fact is it happened. It's over now. I do not live my life constantly wishing that I could change the past.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Our relationship was built on a house of cards. One good blow and you find the pieces scatter in the wind quite easily.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Is life worth living simply because you live, or is it worth more if you make life happen?”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I've learned that verbal abuse can be just as damaging as physical abuse and take longer to heal from.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Genes, I have learned, do not make a family. Families are the people that stick around through good and bad times. Sadness is a part of life. Choosing to be happy and see the glass half full is a struggle we all must make.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“She reminds me of a turtle; you can never quite know wha ta turtle is thinking.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I love metaphors and she has come up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future. My past and present were the two candles we started with; she would ask me what I would like to start with or deal with today. I would light up either my past or my present depending on the answer. During the last few sessions we've used the candles I've noticed my past melting more and more and becoming duller and duller in light.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for, that is enough.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“For nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the ind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I am not proud of that today, but I did what I had always done... tried to survive an impossible situation.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“T. S. Eliot once wrote, “I said to my soul be still, and wait without hope; for hope would be hope for the wrong thing.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“Families are like snowflakes: they come in many shapes and sizes and no two are the same. And like a snowflake, they are very delicate and must be protected and guarded from elements that threaten to destroy their precarious balance.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“People who hate waste so much of their life hating that they miss out on all the other stuff out here.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“I am so lucky and blessed for all the wonderful things that I do have. Life is too short to think about all the things you don’t have.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“My trust and hope were indeed put in the wrong person(s), but nevertheless it still lived.”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
“did I have? He controlled everything. He said Nancy”
― Jaycee Dugard, quote from A Stolen Life
Jaycee Dugard
Born place: in Anaheim, California, The United States
Born date May 3, 1980
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“But what refuses to leave my mind is the image of Drew and Kate making love before the camera. Mia viewed that photograph with me and felt no embarrassment at all. On the contrary, she wants to experience the same intensity she saw there with me. More than that, she’s telling me beforehand that I’ll have no obligation to her. Evolutionary nirvana, Caitlin called it. God, was she right.”
― Greg Iles, quote from Turning Angel
“I don’t think of people as queer or straight,” the Doc said. “Not when you’re as old as I. And I don’t think God does either.”
“I didn’t know you believed in God, Doc,” Vance said.”
― James Purdy, quote from Narrow Rooms
“Consider, for example, IBM’s decision to outsource the microprocessor for its PC business to Intel, and its operating system to Microsoft. IBM made these decisions in the early 1980s in order to focus on what it did best—designing, assembling, and marketing computer systems. Given its history, these choices made perfect sense. Component suppliers to IBM historically had lived a miserable, profit-free existence, and the business press widely praised IBM’s decision to out-source these components of its PC. It dramatically reduced the cost and time required for development and launch. And yet in the process of outsourcing what it did not perceive to be core to the new business, IBM put into business the two companies that subsequently captured most of the profit in the industry. How could IBM have known in advance that such a sensible decision would prove so costly? More broadly, how can any executive who is launching a new-growth business, as IBM was doing with its PC division in the early 1980s, know which value-added activities are those in which future competence needs to be mastered and kept inside? 2”
― Clayton M. Christensen, quote from The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
“Life’s going to do that to you missy. Gonna upset your wagon, not just once but many times. And you got to choose who’s sitting next to you. Someone you can trust…or not.”
― Karen Kondazian, quote from The Whip
“Sleep and cry and rest no more For you have lived many storms before Run or crawl and find the sea Dive in the pleasure Let it set you free.”
― Irum Zahra, quote from Psychaotic: See The World In Red And Black
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