Child Abuse Quotes

The more we idealized the past, however, and refuse to acknowledge or childhood sufferings, the more we pass them on unconsciously to the next generation.

Accepting necessary conflicts for the sake of improving the lives of children is the only fundamental moral crusade that matters.

One Decision Makes All the Difference

It is a rare person who can cut himself off from mediate and immediate relations with others for long spaces of time without undergoing a deterioration in personality.

You're a survivor because everyday you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness.

You're a survivor because every day you make a choice not to be governed by their harsh words or actions. No one has the right to take away your happiness

This is for the kids who know that the worst kind of fear isn't the thing that makes you scream, but the one that steals your voice and keeps you silent.

Childhood trauma does not come in one single package.

Inside, my soul became so cold I hated everything. I even despised the sun, for I knew I would never be able to play in its warm presence.

I remember the pain I felt, and wonder why a man who was such an accomplished liar had to tell the truth that day.

If you want to breed something, breed bravehearts, not soulless racehorses.

Anyone who shames survivors of trauma and abuse for not healing, is a person who has no compassion for life's suffering

We are God's chosen people.We are God's treasured possession.Let us rise in mighty strength to possess our rightful places as God's children.

All children are born to grow, to develop, to live, to love, and to articulate their needs and feelings for their self-protection.

Closeness was the promise of suffering and pain

I saw the bruises, the burns, the cuts— I knew which ones had been done to you by someone you thought you could trust. Someone you thought loved you. I knew which ones you gave yourself.

I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.

We already live on the planet of war, we already live on the red planet, and it's a war against children. All the other wars are just the shadows of the war on children.

We are creatures built on a house of cards of language.

All mental unhappiness is the avoidance of legitimate suffering

It is dangerous to use our own ability to access non-traumatic memories as a standard against which we judge a trauma victim’s response.

When the gates of mockery and abuse is opened, the heart becomes a shock absorber

And as she held me, I suddenly realized that my lifelong search for love and acceptance had finally ended in the arms of a foster parent.

The war is against children, and all the other wars are just a shadow of the war on children.

A terrible sadness threatened to overwhelm me as I wondered how two people capable of such love for each other had eventually felt so little for the child they had produced between them.

I was the problem and the solution.

If you want to know the real reasons behind that attitude, think of the thought behind that attitude

Children are better to starve than forced into prostitution.

It is the selfish parents who are to blame. Pay attention, be involved in your children’s lives. They are your legacy, your only hope.

Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.

A statue stands in a shaded placeAn angel girl with an upturned faceA name is written on a polished rockA broken heart that the world forgot

A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

The past does not define me, it ignites me. The past is not a piece of me, it has placed me

Every struggle you overcome, will build the strength of your spirit.

Meadow's Waltz...the meadow had becomeher sanctuary of spiritoffering an escape from a painno child should ever endureforeboding clouds began...

If you are really doing all this for your kids, then why are you so mean to them?

In a brain scan, relational pain—that caused by isolation during punishment—can look the same as physical abuse. Is alone in the corner the best place for your child?

There can be no love without justice. Until we live in a culture that no only respects but also upholds basic civil rights for children, most children will not know love.

Tender Ember...Barred and brandedto be forever unlovedI was a tender emberseeking solace from above...

The Unexpected GiftTorn asunder from her slumberin the hour of half past threeThe child knew the tyrannical regimeand followed instinctively.-(slice from Enigmatic Evolution)

How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

A human being born into a cold, indifferent world will regard his situation as the only possible one.

Cruelty is the opposite of love, and its traumatic effect, far from being reduced, is actually reinforced if it is presented as a sign of love.

Untraumatized people have a natural instinct to make healthy decisions in the best interest of their true selves. They are only limited by their immaturity and the brokenness of their external world.

Ricky just listens. He isn't shocked. He isn't surprised. He listens to me because he knows. He knows the shame and the guilt and the sorrow and the rage. And he does not judge me. He just listens.

Even in death, her mother was winning.

Aurora, you're a child, live like one, don't act like one. Enjoy the innocence, dump the immaturity.

He also knew the language of The Klingons, but the army had no use for it.

The list of lifesavers left him numb, clueless - the action, indifferent.