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32 quotes by Dave Pelzer

David James "Dave" Pelzer (born December 29, 1960 in San Francisco, California) is an American author, of several autobiographical and self-help books. He is best known for his 1995 memoir of childhood abuse, A Child Called "It".
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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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'A Child Called It' was a story about resilience, it was never about boo hoo hoo, it was about a kid that didn't quit.

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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... →

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Something good comes out of every crisis.

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

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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.

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

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Whatever you do for the sole purpose of having others admire you, your efforts will most likely be in vain.

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I am a very shy, introverted guy.

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