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.
"When you come to the edge of all the light you have known and are about to step out into the darkness, FAITH is knowing one of two things will happen... There will be something to stand on or You will be taught how to fly."
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
AYN RAND (author of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead and more)
"There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun." Gerd de Ley
Darkness cannot run out darkness, only light can do that; Hate cannot run out hate, only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. (Oliver Wendel Holmes
"In the name of the best within you, do not sacrifice this world to those who are its worst. In the name of the values that keep you alive, do not let your vision of man be distorted by the ugly, the cowardly, the mindless in those who have never achieved his title. Do not lose your knowledge that man's proper estate is an upright posture, an intransigent mind and a step that travels unlimited roads. Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it's yours.
AYN RAND (author of Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead and more)
"There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun." Gerd de Ley
Darkness cannot run out darkness, only light can do that; Hate cannot run out hate, only love can do that." Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we are, but in what direction we are moving. (Oliver Wendel Holmes
This one's good for motivation to leave:
"Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
MLK Jr.
Rumi
Today, like every other day, we wake up empty
and frightened. Don't open the door to the study
and begin reading. Take down the dulcimer.
Let the beauty we love be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground.
Rumi
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
Rumi
Oh soul,
you worry too much.
You have seen your own strength.
You have seen your own beauty.
You have seen your golden wings.
Of anything less,
why do you worry?
You are in truth
the soul, of the soul, of the soul.
Rumi
You were born with potential.
You were born with goodness and trust. You were born with ideals and dreams. You were born with greatness.
You were born with wings.
You are not meant for crawling, so don't.
You have wings.
Learn to use them and fly.
Rumi