If you are now in an abusive situation, please be careful, and get out. There is help available for everything you need to get out of the situation, have your material needs met, and get the counseling you need to recover. Every phone book has 800 numbers in the front cover and your local police department can tell you where to go. They will also protect you and your children. Churches also have lists of resources and will do all they can to get you to safety.
1-800-799-SAFE (7233) 1-800-787-3224 (TTY) The National domestic Violence Hotline can put you in touch with help in your area. They also speak Spanish.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. Epictetus
The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best. Epictetus
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody. Bill Cosby
The miracle is this - the more we share, the more we have. Leonard Nimoy
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. Eugene Ionesco Decouvertes
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. George Bernard Shaw
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself. (Source Unknown)
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when we are afraid of the light. Plato
The opposite of growing is not remaining the same. It is dying. As we learn, we grow. As we grow, we learn. If we stop learning and growing, we begin dying. Jacqueline Stone
The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. Albert Einstein
How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself. Anais Nin
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. Thomas Alva Edison
If you are going through hell, keep going. Winston Churchill
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are right. Henry Ford
One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him. Socrates
Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss. Nothing is as rich. Nothing is more real. Deepak Chopra