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    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
    ― Rumi
    tags: brokenness, healing, scars, suffering
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    Nora Roberts
    “The wounded recognized the wounded.”
    ― Nora Roberts, Rising Tides
    tags: child-abuse, wounded
    152 likes

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    John D. Richardson
    “God draws near to the brokenhearted. He leans toward those who are suffering. He knows what it feels like to be wounded and abandoned.”
    ― John D. Richardson
    tags: abandoned, broken, brokenhearted, christ, christianity, god, hurt, jesus, suffering, wounded
    40 likes

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  • #4
    “We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.”
    ― Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt
    tags: brokenness, growth, hurts, inspirational, wounded
    56 likes

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  • #5
    Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
    “Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.”
    ― Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
    tags: acceptance, asteroid, astrology, chiron, healer, healing, healing-within, inner-wounds, lisa-tenzin-dolma, mythology, wisdom-through-experience, wounded
    20 likes

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  • #6
    M.F. Moonzajer
    “A wounded lover is more dangerous than a coward army.”
    ― M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
    tags: army, coward, dangerous, lover, wounded
    15 likes

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  • #7
    Toba Beta
    “When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,
    you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.”
    ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut
    tags: favor, god, help, wounded
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  • #8
    Jodi Picoult
    “I ...understand how a parent might hit a child- it's because you can look into their eyes and see a reflection of yourself that you wish you hadn't.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper
    tags: child-abuse, corporeal-punishment
    230 likes

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  • #9
    Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness
    “Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.”
    ― Dave Pelzer, A Child Called "It"
    tags: a-child-called-it, abuse, carefree, child-abuse, childhood, nightmares, soul
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    Judith Lewis Herman
    “Many abused children cling to the hope that growing up will bring escape and freedom.

    But the personality formed in the environment of coercive control is not well adapted to adult life. The survivor is left with fundamental problems in basic trust, autonomy, and initiative. She approaches the task of early adulthood――establishing independence and intimacy――burdened by major impairments in self-care, in cognition and in memory, in identity, and in the capacity to form stable relationships.

    She is still a prisoner of her childhood; attempting to create a new life, she reencounters the trauma.”
    ― Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-suffering, childhood-trauma
    444 likes

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  • #11
    Jonathan Anthony Burkett
    “Faith is why I'm here today and faith is why I made it through.”
    ― Jonathan Anthony Burkett, Neglected But Undefeated: The Life Of A Boy Who Never Knew A Mother's Love
    tags: 2013, child-abuse, determined, faith, hard-times, hate, life-quotes, love, money, music, neglect, struggle
    164 likes

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    Laura Davis
    “Abuse manipulates and twists a child’s natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can’t afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she’s being abused—pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.”
    ― Laura Davis, Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, guilt, healing, innocence, love, manipulation, repressed-feelings, shame, trust
    283 likes

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    Mark Z. Danielewski
    “the seriousness of emotional deprivation:

    It is not difficult to understand how children who have suffered from malnutrition or starvation need food and plenty of care in their bodies are to recover so they can go on to lead normal lives. If, however, the starvation is severe enough, the damage will be permanent and they will suffer physical impairments for the rest of their lives. Likewise, children who are deprived of emotional nurturing require care and love if their sense of security and self-confidence is to be restored. However, if love is minimal and abuse high, the damage will be permanent and the children will suffer emotional impairments for the rest of their lives.”
    ― Mark Z. Danielewski
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  • #14
    In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never
    “In general, the more dysfunctional the family the more inappropriate their response to disclosure. Never expect a sane response from an insane system.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-abuse, disclosure, dissociative-amnesia, dysfunctional-family, family-torn-apart, incest, insane, repressed, repressed-memories
    50 likes

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    Alice Miller
    “Child abuse damages a person for life and that damage is in no way diminished by the ignorance of the perpetrator. It is only with the uncovering of the complete truth as it affects all those involved that a genuinely viable solution can be found to the dangers of child abuse.”
    ― Alice Miller, Banished Knowledge: Facing Childhood Injuries
    tags: child-abuse, childhood-abuse, damage
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  • #16
    the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there
    “the abuser's desire to abuse is not created by the child - it is there before the child appears”
    ― Carolyn Ainscough, Breaking Free: Help for survivors of child sexual abuse
    tags: abuse, blame, child-abuse, child-sexual-abuse, desire, pedophiles, sexual-abse, shame
    14 likes

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  • #17
    F. Scott Fitzgerald
    “One should . . . be able to see things as hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.”
    ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
    tags: hopelessness
    127 likes



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