Physical & Emotional Abuse Support Group
Abuse is a general term for the treatment of someone that causes some kind of harm (to the abused person, to the abusers themselves, or to someone else) that is unlawful or wrongful. No one deserves abuse, period. Abuse can be emotional, physical, or sexual.
I heard this quote the other day on Criminal Minds and although Criminal Minds is often a dark series, I do take comfort in the fact that the team of profilers has such a close relationship and overcome the odds to find the killer and stop the darkness. I have a friend that tells me he feels I watch this to try to understand why these men I date are the way they are and to try to outmanuver and outsmart them. That perhaps I feel if I can be one step ahead, I can beat them at thier own game. He says that I should focus on ME instead of them and thier issues, that by focusing on thier narcissicism, and sociopathic tendancies, I just give them more power. Who knows...I like to think that I just want to believe the "good" guys will prevail and I am honestly interested in profiling. Either way, here is the quote by the very peaceable Ghandi:
"Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seemed invincible but in the end they always fall...always."
Ghandi
"Remember that all through history there have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seemed invincible but in the end they always fall...always."
Ghandi
This is one of my favorites:
"Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and our freedom." ~Viktor Frankl (Holocaust survivor)
MyTrueColors, what a beautiful quote, thanks for sharing it.
A smooth sea never made a skillful mariner.
- Anonymous
Adversity is the diamond dust that heaven polishes its jewels with.
- Leighton
Who indeed can harm you if you are committed deeply to doing what is right?
- I Peter
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
-William Ellery Channing
It is not good for all our wishes to be filled; through sickness we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.
- Greek Proverb