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“God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know that I gave all my struggles to my favorite children? One only needs to look at the struggles given to your older brother Jesus to know how important you have been to me.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abuse, accepting, answers, autoimmune-disease, bullied, compassion, crying, cyberbullying, defamation, empathy, emptyness, faith, feeling-deeply, god, god-s-love, god-s-plan, gossip, grace, hacking, healing, hope, humiliation, ignored, illness, insight, introspection, job, journey, life, living, lonely, lonliness, loss-of-dignity, loss-of-faith, loss-of-family, loss-of-health, loss-of-time, lost, lost-children, mental-abuse, mercy, misdiagnosis, misunderstanding, mood, pain, physical-abuse, rejection, self-evaluation, sexual-abuse, shame, silence, sorrow, spiritual-abuse, struggles, tears, to-live, trials, tsloama, wrong-choices, years

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“People are shitty for a lot of reasons. Sometimes they're just shitty people. Sometimes people have been shitty to them and, even though they don't realize it, they take that shitty upbringing and go out into the world and treat others the same way. Sometimes they're shitty because they're afraid. Sometimes they choose to be shitty to others before others can be shitty to them. So it's like self-defensive shittiness.”
― Jennifer Niven, Holding Up the Universe

tags: sad-reality, shittiness, suck-it-up, true-to-life, understanding-others, why

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“Narcissists will never tell you the truth. They live with the fear of abandonment and can't deal with facing their own shame. Therefore, they will twist the truth, downplay their behavior, blame others and say what ever it takes to remain the victim. They are master manipulators and conartists that don't believe you are smart enough to figure out the depth of their disloyalty. Their needs will always be more important than telling you any truth that isn't in their favor..”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: abandonment-issues, assholes, cheats, conartist, liars, manipulators, narcissists, narcissitic-personality-disorder, playing-the-victim, shame

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“Maybe He'll get what he deserves. Maybe Not. Maybe I'll never find it in my heart to forgive him. And maybe there's nothing wrong with that,either. All those maybes swimming around my head make me think that "maybe" could just be another word for hope.”
― Amber Smith, The Way I Used to Be

tags: forgiveness, pain, real, true-to-life

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