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  • #121
    Byron Katie
    “As long as you think that the cause of your problem is “out there”—as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering—the situation is hopeless. It means that you are forever in the role of victim, that you’re suffering in paradise.”
    ― Byron Katie, Loving What Is: Four Questions That Can Change Your Life
    tags: suffering, thinking, victim
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  • #122
    Mike Norton
    “Never say that you can't do something, or that something seems impossible, or that something can't be done, no matter how discouraging or harrowing it may be; human beings are limited only by what we allow ourselves to be limited by: our own minds. We are each the masters of our own reality; when we become self-aware to this: absolutely anything in the world is possible.

    Master yourself, and become king of the world around you. Let no odds, chastisement, exile, doubt, fear, or ANY mental virii prevent you from accomplishing your dreams. Never be a victim of life; be it's conqueror.”
    ― Mike Norton
    tags: accomplish, can-t, chastisement, conqueror, discouragement, disorder, doubt, dream, empowerment, exile, fear, impossible, king, master, mental, mind, possibility, reality, relative, resilience, truth, victim, virii, virus, viruses, world
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  • #123
    Paulo Coelho
    “You can either be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It all depends on how you view your life.”
    ― Paulo Coelho, Eleven Minutes
    tags: adventurer, eleven-minutes, paolo-coelho, treasure, victim, world
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  • #124
    Steve Maraboli
    “The victim mindset dilutes the human potential. By not accepting personal responsibility for our circumstances, we greatly reduce our power to change them.”
    ― Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
    tags: change, happiness, inspirational, personal-responsibility, potential, power, responsibility, success, victim
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  • #125
    Beverly Engel
    “With emotional abuse, the insults, insinuations, criticism, and accusations slowly eat away at the victim’s self-esteem until he or she is incapable of judging a situation realistically. He or she may begin to believe that there is something wrong with them or even fear they are losing their mind. They have become so beaten down emotionally that they blame themselves for the abuse.”
    ― Beverly Engel, The Emotionally Abusive Relationship: How to Stop Being Abused and How to Stop Abusing
    tags: abuse, abusive-relationships, blame, emotional-abuse, judgement, losing-your-mind, mental-health, mind, self-blame, self-doubt, self-esteem, victim
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  • #126
    Erin Gruwell
    “It would be easy to become a victim of our circumstances and continue feeling sad, scared or angry; or instead, we could choose to deal with injustice humanely and break the chains of negative thoughts and energies, and not let ourselves sink into it.”
    ― Erin Gruwell, The Freedom Writers Diary
    tags: choice, injustice, negative-attitude, negative-thoughts, negativity, overcome, victim
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  • #127
    Dennis Lehane
    “That's the thing about being a victim; you start to think it'll happen to you on a regular basis. It's living with the reality of your own vulnerability, and it sucks.”
    ― Dennis Lehane, A Drink Before the War
    tags: realization, victim, vulnerability, weakness
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  • #128
    “Justice, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. Some see an innocent victim. Others will see evil incarnate getting exactly what's deserved.”
    ― Emily Thorne
    tags: beholder, deserve, evil, innocent, justice, revenge, revenge-tv-series, victim
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  • #129
    Criss Jami
    “It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain.”
    ― Criss Jami, Healology
    tags: alone, anger, appreciation, assumptions, celebrity, communication, conscience, delusion, enemy, excommunication, extrovert, fame, famous, fancy, fantasy, fear, fights, friends, friendship, hate, haters, illusion, infamous, insanity, insecurity, introvert, irrational, loneliness, loner, misunderstood, misunderstood-fights, opinions, opinions-of-others, paranoia, perception, popularity, psychology, psychopath, relationship, revenge, seclusion, sociopath, solitude, vengeance, victim, villain
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  • #130
    Anthon St. Maarten
    “Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.”
    ― Anthon St. Maarten
    tags: be-strong-and-positive, brave-quotes, courage, emotional-healing, emotional-health, empowering-quotes, feeling-sorry-for-yourself, healing-the-past, inner-strength, inspirational-living, overcoming-adversity-quotes, personal-responsibility, pity-party, pity-self-destruction, rising-above-your-past, rising-strong, self-empowerment, self-harm, self-imposed-pain, self-mutilation, self-pity, self-pity-quotes, soul-searching, spiritual-development, spiritual-healing, spiritual-wisdom, spirituality, strength-through-adversity, suffering, suicide, tough-times, victim, victim-mentality
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  • #131
    Jodi Picoult
    “It was a catch-22: If you didn’t put the trauma behind you, you couldn’t move on. But if you did put the trauma behind you, you willingly gave up your claim to the person you were before it happened.”
    ― Jodi Picoult, The Tenth Circle
    tags: rape, sexual-assault, survivor, trauma, victim
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  • #132
    “You’re too sensitive’ victims of sexual abuse are told over and over by those whose reality depends on being insensitive. Most adults who have been in the victim role cringe when anyone tells them they are sensitive. In fact, sensitivity is a lovely trait and one to be cherished in any human being.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: abuse-survivors, criticism, emotional-abuse, healing-from-abuse, hurtful, hurtful-words, insensitive, insensitivity, psychological-abuse, recovery-from-abuse, sensitive, victim, victim-role
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  • #133
    Maya Angelou
    “A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: enemy, victim, wise, women
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  • #134
    “I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To “prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.”
    ― Christina Enevoldsen
    tags: belief-system, harm, healing, pain, sensitive, suffering, victim, victim-role, victimization, weak
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  • #135
    Ellen Bass
    “Everyone has the right to tell the truth about her own life.”
    ― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
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  • #136
    Ellen Bass
    “Thinking for yourself and making your own decisions can be frightening. Letting go of other people’s expectations can leave you feeling empty for a time. And yet seeing yourself as an independent adult who can stand up for your own choices frees you to accept yourself as you are.”
    ― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
    tags: freedom-of-choice, freedom-of-thought, healing-insights, independence, independent-thinking, independent-thought, making-your-own-decisions, people-s-expectations, stand-up-for-yourself, standing-up-for-oneself, thinking-for-yourself
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  • #137
    Ellen Bass
    “People don’t need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.”
    ― Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
    tags: growth, healing, recovery
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  • #138
    Miya Yamanouchi
    “Making someone feel obligated, pressured or forced into doing something of a sexual nature that they don't want to is sexual coercion. This includes persistent attempts at sexual contact when the person has already refused you. Nobody owes you sex, ever; and no means no, always.”
    ― Miya Yamanouchi , Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
    tags: coercion, feminism, feminist, rape, rape-culture, relationships, sex, sexual-assault, sexual-coercion, sexual-violence, sexuality
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  • #139
    “Dissociation gets you through a brutal experience, letting your basic survival skills operate unimpeded…Your ability to survive is enhanced as the ability to feel is diminished…All feeling are blocked; you ‘go away.’ You are disconnected from the act, the perpetrator & yourself…Viewing the scene from up above or some other out-of-body perspective is common among sexual abuse survivors.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: abuse, abuse-survivors, child-rape, child-sexual-abuse, child-sexual-abuse-survivor, depersonalization, disconnected, dissociated, dissociation, incest, numb, numbness, out-of-body, out-of-body-experience, rape, sexual-abuse
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  • #140
    “Some of your childhood traumas may be remembered with incredible clarity, while others are so frightening or incomprehensible that your conscious mind buries the memory in your unconscious.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: abuse, child-abuse, child-sexual-abuse, childhood-abuse, consciousness, fear, memory, mind, ptcd, repressed-memories, traumatic, unconscious
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  • #141
    “You may experience waves of disbelief after each memory you retrieve. Whether as a phase or waves, the disbelief is usually accompanied by massive self-hate and guilt. ‘How can I even think such a thing? I must really be warped,’ you tell yourself.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: child-abuse, child-abuse-survivor, child-sexual-abuse, disbelief, dissociated, dissociation, dissociative-amnesia, incest, recovered-memories, repressed-memories, self-doubt, trauma-memory
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  • #142
    “Empowerment is something that happens throughout your healing, as courage and success in facing your memories build your self-esteem. Some of the strengths you get from taking on your buried memories does not show up in your life until long after the resolution has been achieved.”
    ― Renee Fredrickson, Repressed Memories: A Journey to Recovery from Sexual Abuse
    tags: healing-abuse, healing-from-abuse, healing-journey, recovered-memories, repressed-memories, trauma-memories, traumatized
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  • #143
    Tupac Shakur
    “Since we all came from a women, got our name from a women, and our game from a women. I wonder why we take from women, why we rape our women, do we hate our women? I think its time we killed for our women, be real to our women, try to heal our women, cus if we dont we'll have a race of babies that will hate the ladies, who make the babies. And since a man can't make one he has no right to tell a women when and where to create one”
    ― Tupac Shakur
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  • #144
    Chanel Miller
    “I did not come into existence when he harmed me. She found her voice! I had a voice, he stripped it, left me groping around blind for a bit, but I always had it. I just used it like I never had to use it before. I do not owe him my success, becoming, he did not create me. The only credit Brock can take is for assaulting me, and he could never even admit to that.”
    ― Chanel Miller, Know My Name
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  • #145
    Chanel Miller
    “My advice is, if he’s worried about his reputation, don’t rape anyone.”
    ― Chanel Miller, Know My Name: A Memoir
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  • #146
    Chanel Miller
    “They seemed angry that I’d made myself vulnerable, more than the fact that he’d acted on my vulnerability.”
    ― Chanel Miller, Know My Name
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  • #147
    Jane Austen
    “I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.”
    ― Jane Austen, Persuasion
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  • #148
    Dorothy L. Sayers
    “Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.”
    ― Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
    tags: abilities, clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, feminist, gender, greatness, human-nature, husbands, hypocrisy, integrity, men, men-and-women, misogyny, penina-mezei, skills, stereotypes, strong, wives, women
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  • #149
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    “My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.”
    ― Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
    tags: clichés, double-standards, empowerment, equality, feminism, flattery, gender, hypocrisy, independence, men, misogyny, rationality, reason, self-determination, self-sufficiency, social-norms, stereotypes, strength, women, women-s-rights
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  • #150
    Moderata Fonte
    “Do you really believe ... that everything historians tell us about men – or about women – is actually true? You ought to consider the fact that these histories have been written by men, who never tell the truth except by accident.”
    ― Moderata Fonte, The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
    tags: clichés, double-standards, feminism, gender, history, hypocrisy, men, misogyny, prejudice, slander, social-norms, stereotypes, truth, women
    669 likes



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