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#1

“I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.”
― Amy Poehler

tags: dreams, friends, judgement, people, relationships, support

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#2

“What is home? My favorite definition is "a safe place," a place where one is free from attack, a place where one experiences secure relationships and affirmation. It's a place where people share and understand each other. Its relationships are nurturing. The people in it do not need to be perfect; instead, they need to be honest, loving, supportive, recognizing a common humanity that makes all of us vulnerable.”
― Gladys Hunt, Honey for a Child's Heart: The Imaginative Use of Books in Family Life

tags: family, home, love, respect, support

400 likes

#3

“Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe with all their heart. They'll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.”
― Hayao Miyazaki

tags: brave, feminism, friend, movies, passion, self-sufficient, studio-ghibli, support

484 likes

#4

“There are going to be times when you learn more about the world you’re entering and feel defeated when you see the gap between the ideal and the reality… But that’s something we’ll all face. The people that face those obstacles and overcome them are people whose dreams come true.”
― Tsugumi Ohba, Bakuman, Volume 3: Debut and Impatience

tags: anime, bakuman, dreams, reality, success, support

165 likes

#5

“The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.”
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson

tags: caring, concern, fact, family, life, love, support, truth

118 likes

#6

“When someone steals your original ideas? Feel sorry for them.
When someone steals your thunder or applause? Feel sorry for them.
When someone doesn't support your dreams or work ?

Feel sorry for them.

But when someone steals your truth, your voice, your heart or your words?

Feel truly sorry for them

And then kick their ass.
It's yours.

Because you've been way too fucking polite.”
― R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz

tags: betrayal, compassion, friends, honesty, r-m-engelhardt, support, writing

2 likes

#7

“But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes. The heart of a hurt child can shrink so that forever afterward it is hard and pitted as the seed of a peach. Or again, the heart of such a child may fester and swell until it is a misery to carry within the body, easily chafed and hurt by the most ordinary things.”
― Carson McCullers, The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories

tags: childhood, cruelty, heart, love, neglect

210 likes

#8

“THE WEATHER OF LOVE

Love
Has a way of wilting
Or blossoming
At the strangest,
Most unpredictable hour.
This is how love is,
An uncontrollable beast
In the form of a flower.
The sun does not always shine on it.
Nor does the rain always pour on it
Nor should it always get beaten by a storm.
Love does not always emit the sweetest scents,
And sometimes it can sting with its thorns.
Water it.
Give it plenty of sunlight.
Nurture it,
And the flower of love will
Outlive you.
Neglect it or keep dissecting it,
And its petals will quickly curl up and die.
This is how love is,
Perfection is a delusional vision.
So love the person who loves you
Unconditionally,
And abandon the one
Who only loves you
Under favorable
Conditions.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: beast, blossom, blossoming, death, delusional, die, dissect, dying, everlasting-love, flower, hour, love, love-poem, neglect, petals, poetry, rain, relationship, relationships, romantic-poem, scent, shine, sting, storm, sunlight, sweetest-scent, thorns, unconditional, unconditonal-love, uncontrollable, vision, weather, wilting

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#9

“When loneliness is a constant state of being, it harkens back to a childhood wherein neglect and abandonment were the landscape of life.”
― Alexandra Katehakis, Mirror of Intimacy: Daily Reflections on Emotional and Erotic Intelligence

tags: abandonment, childhood, loneliness, neglect

77 likes

#10

“Your mind can be your enemy or friend. If you always follow your heart, your mind will feel neglected. If you follow only your mind, your heart will never forgive you. Never ignore your conscience, yet always be conscious of reason. Make your heart and mind friends and you will have peace of mind throughout life's seasons.”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

tags: aims, ambition, attitude, balance, bliss, conscience, conscious, desires, dreams, ego, enemy, friend, goals, happiness, heart, ignore, inner-peace, inspirational, lessons, life, life-lessons, mental-peace, mentality, middele-way, mind, motivation, neglect, neglected, outlook, path, peace, peace-of-mind, purpose, reality, reasoning, self-awareness, self-realization, spirituality, state-of-mind, success, suzy-kassem, synergy, truth, wisdom, wise

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#11

“If your parents’ faces never lit up when they looked at you, it’s hard to know what it feels like to be loved and cherished. If you come from an incomprehensible world filled with secrecy and fear, it’s almost impossible to find the words to express what you have endured. If you grew up unwanted and ignored, it is a major challenge to develop a visceral sense of agency and self-worth.”
― Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma

tags: abuse, fear, love, neglect, parental-abuse, parenting, ptsd, secrecy, self-esteem, trauma

137 likes

#12

“The happy family is a myth for many.”
― Carolyn Spring

tags: abusive-father, abusive-father-s, abusive-mother, abusive-parents, child-abuse, child-abuse-survivors, childhood-abuse, complex-ptsd, complex-trauma, disorganized-attachment, dysfunctional-families, dysfunctional-family, happy-families, happy-family, neglect, perfect-childhood

46 likes

#13

“Her deep romantic nature prevented her from demanding, from asking for that quenching. She wanted it to come freely, like flowers that are sent and not requested.”
― Sean Ferrer

tags: audrey-hepburn, daughter, father, longing-for-love, love, neglect, parents

7 likes

#14

“Most kids who don't feel enough love and nurturance carry around this kind of inner rage- a rage that often lasts throughout adulthood. The people who should have cared for them didn't. The lesson to take away: All people are shit. This is why troubled youth walk around with chips on their shoulders and why they are so hard to help.
Early on they learn that people can't be trusted. They often spend the rest of their lives embracing this damaging belief. Seeing the world through shit-coloured glasses, they are hypersensitive to every possible slight or judgement, and they believe anyone friendly or kind must have an ulterior motive.
Despite all this, wounded people desperately want and need love. But, terrified to trust, they constantly do things to test and sabotage their relationships. This push-pull dance is well-known to anyone who's ever been close to a victim of abuse, neglect, or abandonment. Those who suffer from BPD are hypersensitive to perceived slights from others and can grow notoriously hostile when they feel dissed....
For survivors of abuse, who you trust is a matter of survival. Its black and white. There can be no apologies. There can be no gray. There are no exceptions.-Scared Selfless”
― Michelle Stevens

tags: abuse, bpd, neglect, rage, survivors, trust

4 likes

#15

“On top of the abuse and neglect, denial heaps more hurt upon the child by requiring the child to alienate herself from reality and her own experience. In troubled families, abuse and neglect are permitted; it's the talking about them that is forbidden.”
― Marcia Sirota

tags: abuse, alienation, child-abuse, childhood-abuse, denial, deny, family-secrets, forbidden, hidden, incest, neglect, parenting, pretend, reality, secret

40 likes

#16

“Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place.”
― Rumi

tags: joy, rumi, sorrow, transformation

1613 likes

#17

“Be melting snow.
Wash yourself of yourself.”
― Rumi, The Essential Rumi

tags: inspirational

1202 likes

#18

“Study me as much as you like, you will not know me, for I differ in a hundred ways from what you see me to be. Put yourself behind my eyes and see me as I see myself, for I have chosen to dwell in a place you cannot see.”
― Rumi

906 likes

#19

“I was dead, then alive.
Weeping, then laughing.

The power of love came into me,
and I became fierce like a lion,
then tender like the evening star.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

tags: love, rumi

616 likes

#20

“Do you know what you are?
You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter.
You are a mirror reflecting a noble face.
This universe is not outside of you.
Look inside yourself;
everything that you want,
you are already that.”
― Rumi, Hush, Don't Say Anything to God: Passionate Poems of Rumi

tags: inspirational, iran, rumi, rumi-poetry

715 likes

#21

“At night, I open the window
and ask the moon to come
and press its face against mine.
Breathe into me.
Close the language-door
and open the love-window.
The moon won't use the door,
only the window.”
― Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi, A Year with Rumi: Daily Readings

560 likes

#22

“My heart is so small
it's almost invisible.
How can You place
such big sorrows in it?
"Look," He answered,
"your eyes are even smaller,
yet they behold the world.”
― Rumi

tags: spirituality

655 likes

#23

“Never try to do anything that is outside of who you are. A forced smile is a sign of what feels wrong in your heart, so recognize it when it happens. Living a lie will reduce you to one.”
― Ashly Lorenzana

tags: deception, forced, honesty, identity, lies, life, morality, self-awareness

315 likes

#24

“All facades fall sometime, then the mask comes off and the real heart is seen.”
― Jessiqua Wittman, A Memoir of Mercy

tags: deception, facade, honesty, mask

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#25

“Staying silent is like a slow growing cancer to the soul and a trait of a true coward. There is nothing intelligent about not standing up for yourself. You may not win every battle. However, everyone will at least know what you stood for—YOU.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: assertive, assertiveness, bravery, choices, confidence, courage, coward, daughter-of-god, dignity, disrespect, enemies, fearful, integrity, low-self-esteem, retreat, scores, self-esteem, self-respect, self-worth, silence, women

549 likes

#26

“They will hate you if you are beautiful. They will hate you if you are successful. They will hate you if you are right. They will hate you if you are popular. They will hate you when you get attention. They will hate you when people in their life like you. They will hate you if you worship a different version of their God. They will hate you if you are spiritual. They will hate you if you have courage. They will hate you if you have an opinion. They will hate you when people support you. They will hate you when they see you happy. Heck, they will hate you while they post prayers and religious quotes on Pinterest and Facebook. They just hate. However, remember this: They hate you because you represent something they feel they don’t have. It really isn’t about you. It is about the hatred they have for themselves. So smile today because there is something you are doing right that has a lot of people thinking about you.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, abusive-people, accomplishments, beauty, beotch, bitter-women, blamers, blaming, bringchangetomind-com, bullies

323 likes

#27

“When a person is punished for their honesty they begin to learn to lie.”
― Shannon L. Alder

201 likes

#28

“The greatest thing a father can do for his children is to respect the woman that gave birth to his children. It is because of her that you have the greatest treasures in your life. You may have moved on, but your children have not. If you can’t be her soulmate, then at least be thoughtful. Whom your children love should always be someone that you acknowledge with kindness. Your children notice everything and will follow your example.”
― Shannon L. Alder, 300 Questions for a Vibrant Marriage

tags: children, children-s-feelings, choices, christlike, christlike-behavior, coparenting, dad, families-are-forever, fathers, honesty, honor, honorable, kindness, love, mom, mothers, positive-choices, positive-living, positive-outlooks, respect, respectable, respecting-others, staying-positive, thoughtful, thoughtlessness, unconditional-love

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