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Words Heal

Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
Have you ever heard the expression, "Words wound"? It's true, they do. But words can also heal. Words can provide reassurance, calm, guide, uplift, validate... Words can do wonders.

Whatever your conditions, you will find comfort in words. Let's share some good words here, making this a place you can turn to when you need something to occupy your mind and drive out the bad memories, worries, doubts, and fears; something to hold onto when the nightmares and flashbacks and panic and anxiety and loneliness and frustrations come.

I'll begin by typing a few quotations, and you can add anything you like.
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Let the past as nothing be."
-Abraham Lincoln

Did you know that he was an adult survivor of child abuse? He went on to achieve greatness, keeping the United States of America united as one nation in the American Civil War, and freeing those held as slaves.
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Hope has two beautiful daughters named Anger and Courage: Anger at the way things are, and Courage to change them."
-Aurelius Augustinus
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"When you have shut your doors and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone; for you are not alone, but God is within and your genius is within."
-Epictetus
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
-Leo Buscaglia
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"I forgive myself for having believed for so long that... I was never good enough to have, get, or be what I wanted."
-Ceanne DeRohan
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?"
-George Eliot (pen name of Mary Ann Evans)
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
-Khalil Gibran
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
-Helen Adams Keller
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you."
-Mary Tyler Moore
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Silence is the virtue of fools."
-Francis Bacon
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Mary Earhart
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it is the courage to continue that counts."
-Winston Leonard Spenser Churchill
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of cosolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted."
-Eileen Caddy
Group FounderBeaumont
Beaumont
"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton