Please don’t think I’m bad too.” From the other innermost part of him, the secret animal that prowls in some men was a raging wolf ready to kill. The battle line within the man had...

An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.

Growing up in a home of abuse, you struggle with the notion that you can love a person you hate, or hate a person you love. It’s a strange feeling.

As he had kissed her neck, she could not repress the feeling she was a lamb making time with a wolf.

Facts do not fall in the face of discomfort.

People that hurt others, only act on a pain they feel themselves.

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...

I was increasingly both horrified and sceptical about these memories – I had no recall of these things at all, though I couldn’t imagine why I’d want to make it all up either. It felt...

Real humility is graceful power, not a mandate to be victimized and abused.

Any Mexican, would recognise that Mexico was abused, undervalued and downgraded in international circles, most of all by the United States.

But if colleges really are sending in the middle of the night, then I’d say that’s an abuse of the system,

Did you know one in three woman wind up in a mentally or physically abusive relationship?But the funny part is, it doesn’t start off that way. It starts of wonderful, as close to everything you...

You may abuse your energy when you do not know what it is meant to help you carry. An undiscovered self is an easy way to rob the world of leadership impacts.

Deny a man pleasure, the possession of woman’s body and he will show you his true colors.He will dismiss his frustration onto her, forcibly abuse her, offend her all at the cost of his desires,...

Childhood should be carefree, playing in the sun; not living a nightmare in the darkness of the soul.

It may be a reflection on human nature, that such devices should be necessary to control the abuses of government. But what is government itself, but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If...

Silence, too, can be torture.

Free will? Either you follow the word of God, or you’ll be punished with eternal hellfire. That’s the same kind of “choice” an abuse boyfriend gives you: ‘Either you do exactly what I say, or...

Don’t be a zombie for anyone, if your oppressor likes zombies, cinemas are not located in mars.

As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging.

The central attitudes driving the Player are:Women were put on this earth to have sex with men—especially me.Women who want sex are too loose, and women who refuse sex are too uptight. (!)It’s not my...

Facing one’s past can be a perilous activity. For the client, joy must exceed misery. Personal successes must far outweigh losses. Pleasure must exceed pain. Always. Always. To do otherwise is a failure of the...

The danger is that in reaction to abuses and distortions of an idea, we’ll reject it completely. And in the process miss out on the good of it, the worth of it, the truth of...

We are supposed to call poison medicine and we wonder why we’re always sick.

Why am I not good enough?At least he loves Darren and Yaichain some wayeven if it’s horrible, he shows them attentionand I am furnitureI get nothing nothingnothingno thing

Suffering teaches joy.

What are you going to do? Are you going to live in the dark, locked in here? Afraid to look out, answer the door, leave? Yes, he’s out there, and he’s clearly not going to...

we are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our body, which is doomed to decay…, from the external world which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless force of destruction, and finally from...

In the end, it was the secrets that held me hostage and fuelled my depression, but, once released, emancipation – from fear, shame, guilt and judgement – was finally possible.

Why did I allow the abuse to continue? Even as a teenager?I didn’t. Something that had been plaguing me for years now made sense. It was like the answer to a terrible secret. The thing...

We must understand that those who experience abuse as children, and particularly those who experience incest, almost invariably suffer from a profound sense of guilt and shame that is not meliorated merely by unearthing memories...

The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What’s left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars.

Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional...

Wherever there is abuse there is also corruption. Politics, philosophy, theology, science, industry, any field with the potential to affect the well-being of others can be destroyed by abuse and saved by good will.

We need to see accountability for those whose work was exposed as abuse of position, misuse of public funds. We need to see structural reform in the executive authority, … We need to see elimination...

Woe to the man who offends a small child!

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

…when a wife wouldn’t testify, little punishment was meted out. Alex came to understand that only those who pressed charges ever became truly free, because the life they were leading was a prison, even if...

I wear the word victim like a badge of honor — my own purple heart. I see what others do more than I see what I’m capable of.

Over time as most people fail the survivor’s exacting test of trustworthiness, she tends to withdraw from relationships. The isolation of the survivor thus persists even after she is free.

We do not have to be mental health professionals to identify the traits of the possible sociopaths among us.

Physical aggression by a man toward his partner is abuse, even if it happens only once. If he raises a fist; punches a hole in the wall; throws things at you; blocks your way; restrains...

THE MYTHS ABOUT ABUSERS1. He was abused as a child.2. His previous partner hurt him.3. He abuses those he loves the most.4. He holds in his feelings too much.5. He has an aggressive personality.6. He...

That was not too bad. Many more are hostile. We take a lot of verbal abuse. But we cannot retaliate. We say ‘thank you’ and walk away.

Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others. Then there are those who seem to exist for pain’s sake only; that in the end the wrathful fire...

The true self is that which is in touch with reality. The false self is the aspects of your personality that are adapted to threats and no longer consciously recognizes either the adaptation or the...

I’m the guy who knows how you can hurt so much that your insides feel like they’re cut and bleeding.

What do you know about somebody not being good enough for somebody else? And since when did you care whether Corinthians stood up or fell down? You’ve been laughing at us all your life. Corinthians....

When we teach people that suspending moral judgments is a virtue, the necessary outcome is moral horror.

Alcohol abuse is the leading cause of death on college campuses,