Explore Quotes by Dave Pelzer

You can be a victim of cancer, or a survivor of cancer. It's a mindset.

I learned from Arnold Schwarzenegger, too, that it's O.K. to be pluggish.

I had an attachment disorder.

What distresses me at times is that I meet a lot of people in their 40's, 50's, 60's, who still say they're a victim of child abuse.

Everyone picked on me in school because I was in foster care.

I still love my former wife, I won't call her my ex-wife.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I really believe I'm no different from anyone else. I just had a few challenges I had to learn from at a very early age.

Even when I lecture per se, I am a joke comedian, I can do the voices.

If people have a basic understanding of right from wrong, possess a strong desire to better themselves and persist in there cause, they can break the chain of any negative environment.

Ask yourself: was there anything I could have done to prevent the situation? If the answer is yes, do something now and become a better person for it.

When you please others in hopes of being accepted, you lose you self-worth in the process.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive.

Draw Support From Those You Know And Trust. Don't Leave Your Happiness To Fate.

Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat.

You have to understand that in a person's life there are a few precious moments in which decisions, choices that you make now, will affect you for the rest of your life.

Even in its darkest passages, the heart is unconquerable. It is important that the body survives, but it is more meaningful that the human spirit prevails.

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on the a brighter world.

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

One could come from less than humble beginnings, to become a winner from within.