Abuse Quotes
Abuse Quote of the day
I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
It all I can do not to cry. I make myself wood I say to myself, Celie, you a tree. That's how I come to know trees fear man.
We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop.
Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes.
But it is. It’s something you need, and that’s a long way from nothing. If you need it, Eddie, we need it. What we don’t need is a man who can’t let go of the useless baggage of his memories.
God wants you to be delivered from what you have done and from what has been done to you - Both are equally imporant to Him.
The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
They don't like the thought of someone else making demands on the person whom they see as belonging entirely to them.
If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude
Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it's horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing
They like to use those fancy words. They don't like to say “raped, '” he said. “They say “misdeed, ' “inappropriate touching, ' “mistake.' That's insulting. I'm not a mistake.
What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.
Dear Mrs. Black: On seven prior occasions this company has denied your claim in writing. We now deny it for the eighth and final time. You must be stupid, stupid stupid, stupid!
Two babies in little more than a year and a half. Knockout Jimmy was forced to give up boxing and take a job in the paper mill. It broke him, and in turn, he broke us all.
If the last to know he’s an addict is the addict, then maybe the last to know when a man means what he says is the man himself, he reflected.
The legal system has been designed by governments and corporations to protect them from the common people.
You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there?
Corporations and their government minions are capable of anything...just look at the frauds the recent wars became known as. Hundreds of thousands killed in the name of corporate "liberation".
The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
A child that’s being abused by its parents doesn’t stop loving its parents, it stops loving itself.
Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world, I drank to escapemyself
It must be remembered that the forty hour work week until age sixty five was designed by governments and corporations and not the medical profession.
As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.
There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.
I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worthless.
The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
But it's up to us...' he said softly. 'it's up to us not to lose this.
I'm a buried kind of beautiful.Bring a shovel and a shooting starI may be a night's work.
One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
society has an embarrassing history of denial
Improving the world can be a nasty and ugly and difficult and dangerous business...because when you improve the world, you threaten the entrenched interests of evil people.
It is always a mistake to underestimate how long it takes for mankind to understand the traumas it has suffered, especially the self-inflicted ones.
Abuse really is its own alphabet. Those who have not gone through it cannot understand it fully. The echos of violence hang in subconscious long after the threat is gone.
Democracy is not a form of government. It is a tool of government. Case in point, Stalinist USSR was a "democracy".
-He drives recklessly or speeds up when he’s angry.-He punches walls or kicks doors.-He throws things around, even if they don’t hit you.
