"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 U.S.A. united as one nation and freeing the slaves.

"Hope has two beautiful daughters named Anger and Courage: Anger at the way things are, and Courage to change them."
-Aurelius Augustinus

"Silence is the virtue of fools."
-Francis Bacon

"Courage is the price that Life exacts for granting peace."
-Amelia Mary Earhart

"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

"Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts."
-Winston Churchill

"Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless."
-Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu

"You will have wonderful surges forward. Then there must be a time of consolidating before the next forward surge. Accept this as part of the process and never become downhearted."
-Eileen Caddy

"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 power to turn a life around."
-Leo Buscaglia

"In the depths of winter I finally learned there was in me an invincible summer."
-Albert Camus

"Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
-Gilbert Keith Chesterton

"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

"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)

Looking for a laugh?

We have boatloads of good clean jokes and lots of fun activities!

We also have more quotations like the ones you have read here, in our discussion topic, "Smile Lines."

I am an adult survivor of child abuse just as you are, and I started the Laughter Club with one simple rule: If you wouldn't say it to a child because it contains inappropriate language or adult subject matter, then you shouldn't share it here (in the Laughter Club), either. There is already too much vulgarity and filth in the world, so I decided that the Laughter Club should be free of it. I have one guiding principle: If we make places for the good in our world, there will be less room for the bad.

The Laughter Club...because there should be more to life than just survival. To go there, click here: www.dailystrength.org/groups/laughterclub

Hope to see you there!

"Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding."
-Khalil Gibran