1. “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they’re yours; if they don’t they never were.”
2. “I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I am still here. I have a history of victory.”
3. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.”
4. “Courage doesn’t always roar, sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of day saying ‘I will try again tomorrow”
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5. “When it comes to abuse, you believe there’s no way out. There is always help. There is always a way out.”
6. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
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7. “Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it’s better to leave them broken than to hurt yourself by putting them back together.”
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8. “The biggest abuses in society happen when people are not able to communicate and not able to connect.”
9. “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.”
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10. “Refuse to inherit dysfunction. Learn new ways of living instead of repeating what you lived through.”
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11. “You recognize a survivor when you see one. You recognize a fighter when you see one.”
12. “Sometimes telling ourselves ‘Everything happens for a reason’ or ‘It made me stronger’ is a way to avoid our grief, our vulnerability, and our helplessness.”
13. “To make a difference in someone’s life you don’t have to be brilliant, rich, beautiful or perfect. You just have to care.”
14. “Love is not even an emotion so don’t get emotional over it.”
15. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things and working through them that’s what makes you strong.”
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16. “To deny someone’s feelings or experiences it to literally deny their reality.”
17. “Staying in an unhealthy relationship that robs you of peace of mind, is not being loyal. It is choosing to hurt yourself mentally, emotionally and sometimes, physically.”
18. “If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.”
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19. “The best revenge is creating your own happiness despite a person’s wish to take you down.”
20. “Just remember; Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.”
21. “It is impossible to correct abuses unless we know that theyre going on.”
22. “Over time, anger can build up on the part of both abuser and victim, and emotional abuse can turn into physical violence.”
23. “Abusers manipulate victims into abandoning their own reality, forcing them to accept the abuser’s version.”
24. “Get pissed because you deserve more than this abuse. Emotional abuse is the gateway to all abuse. Get out!”
25. “Bullies may be the perpetrators of evil, but it is the evil of passivity of all those who know what is happening and never intervene that perpetuates such abuse.”
26. “Revenge is surviving, getting out, and being a better person than you were, and breaking the cycle.”
27. “Never forget that walking away from something unhealthy is brave even if you stumble a little on your way out the door.”
28. “There is no timestamp on trauma. There isn’t a formula that you can insert yourself into to get from horror to healed. Be patient. Take up space. Let your journey be the balm.”
29. “The scars from mental cruelty can be as deep and long-lasting as wounds from punches or slaps but are often not as obvious.”
30. “It is not the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind.”
31. “Family is supposed to be our safest haven. Very often, it’s the place we find the deepest heartache.”
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32. “You can deal with an emotion based on reason, but who can control an unreasonable emotion?”
33. “The disrespect and hatred each partner begins to feel leads to more and more emotional abuse and to each partner justifying inappropriate, even destructive, behavior.”
34. “Gaslighters know that people like having a sense of stability and normalcy. Their goal is to uproot this and make you constantly question everything.”
35. “If you want to know where to find your contribution to the world, look at your wounds. When you learn how to heal them, teach others.”
36. “You do have a story; it lies articulate and waiting to be written behind your silence and your suffering.”
37. “We must send a message across the world that there is no disgrace in being a survivor of sexual violence—the shame is on the aggressor.”
38. “Emotional abuse poisons a relationship and infuses it with hostility, contempt, and hatred.”
39. “I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it.”
40. “Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.”
41. “The enemy doesn’t stand a chance when the victim decides to survive.”
42. “Emotional abuse is like being continuously kicked in the shins. It can be worse than getting one punch in the face, and it cements itself.”
43. “There is no excuse for domestic violence and abuse, and no one should have to live in fear of the person they love.”
44. “These raids didn’t usually end in violence, but people got emotional, and emotional people did stupid things.”
45. “Abuse changes your life. Fight Back and change the life of your abusers by Breaking Your Silence on Abuse!”
46. “Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that’s exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.”
47. “No pit is so deep that He is not deeper still; with Jesus even in our darkest moments, the best remains and the very best is yet to be.”
48. “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”
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49. “Some scars don’t hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again.”
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50. “Embedded in their psyche was the story of what had happened to the world, and the boys felt glorious to be on the other side of the madness.”
51. “Each time a woman stands up for herself without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.”
52. “You can recognize survivors of abuse by their courage. When silence is so very inviting, they step forward and share their truth so others know they aren’t alone.”
53. “Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.”
54. “The insidiousness and power of emotional abuse paralleled the invisibility, strength, and purpose of a spider’s web.”
55. “The quiet but inexorable breaking down of self-esteem is much more sinister – it’s a violation of the soul.”
56. “Survivors of abuse show us the strength of their personal spirit every time they smile.”
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57. “When I look into the future, it’s so bright it burns my eyes.”
58. “Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.”
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59. “As the emotional abuse takes its toll and each partner becomes less and less self-assured, each clings to the relationship even more.”
60. “Even among women who have experienced violence from a partner, half or more report that the man’s emotional abuse is what is causing them the greatest harm.”
61. “Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships; in other words, in families the last place we would want or expect to find violence.”
62. “The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.”
63. “Emotional abuse is considered by many to be the most painful form of violence and the most detrimental to self-esteem.”
64. “Emotional abuse is any type of abuse that is not physical in nature. It can include everything from verbal abuse to the silent treatment, domination to subtle manipulation.”
65. “Emotional abuse is a nonphysical behavior or attitude that controls, demeans, punishes or isolates a person.”
66. “Stop telling yourself you can fix him. He’s been this way for a long, long time and he doesn’t intend to change. Save yourself instead, get out while there’s still time.”
67. “Since emotions are merely information, there are no good or bad, right or wrong emotions.”
68. “Controllers, abusers, and manipulative people don’t question themselves. They don’t ask themselves if the problem is them. They always say the problem is someone else.”
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69. “Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.”
70. “Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don’t address it. Until it happens to celebrities.”
71. “Psychological invalidation is one of the most lethal forms of emotional abuse. It kills confidence, creativity, and individuality.”
72. “Emotional abuse is designed to undermine others’ sense of self. It is deliberate humiliation, with the intent to seize control of how others feel about themselves.”
73. “Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, it takes positive steps every day. Let today be the day you start to move forward.”
74. “Poisonous relationships can alter our perception. You can spend many years thinking you’re worthless, you’re unappreciated.”
75. “In emotionally abusive relationships there is a determined intent to formulate statements or actions which leave a person feeling awful.”
