Top 84 Suffering Abuse Quotes
#1. It was not...a woman's fancy that drove them to it, but an eruption of a long-smolering volcano, an overflow of suffering, abuse and exhaustion.
Theresa Serber Malkiel
#2. There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
#3. Before making a snap judgment, ask yourself if it really is something that has hurt you or simply just made you angry at yourself for allowing it to happen. It's amazing what 'sleeping on it' can do. A new day sees a new beginning.
Stephen Richards
#4. Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.
Stephen Richards
#6. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
Stephen Richards
#7. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
Stephen Richards
#8. Josh joined her at the window. She let him look. He should know that the world was not all lessons and iguanas and Nintendo. It was also this muddy simple boy tethered like an animal.
George Saunders
#9. Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.
Stephen Richards
#10. A broken and mended relationship turns out to be stronger than one that has never been broken, almost like how bones can become even stronger once broken and then healed.
Stephen Richards
#11. Victims are members of society whose problems represent the memory of suffering, rage, and pain in a world that longs to forget.
Bessel A. Van Der Kolk
#12. Just because you have been through a bad experience does not give you the ticket to keep going back to that situation over and over again and dramatizing it out of proportion.
Stephen Richards
#13. Being joyous or happy is not something you should feel guilty about.
Stephen Richards
#14. Offer yourself forgiveness as a gift. The word 'give' is the basic keyword in the word forgiveness, therefore it relays a meaning therein.
Stephen Richards
#15. The moment we become forgivers, then we are in line to enjoy the benefits of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#16. The most basic method one can use to let go of the past is by looking at it as a learning experience.
Stephen Richards
#17. A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.
Sharon Salzberg
#18. I urge you to ask yourself just how honorable it is to preside over the abuse and suffering of animals.
Richard Pryor
#19. Due to the need to co-exist with these inhuman and inconsiderate people, we will obviously be disturbed by their acts; something which if we look at closely actually means that we too could be affecting some other people negatively every once in a while.
Stephen Richards
#20. Next time we need to be on drugs and have lots of suffering and alcohol abuse going on while recording, I'm kinda picturing a Jerry Lee Lewis session from the mid Seventies.
Jim Diamond
#21. Overly playing the role of the victim can debar you from accepting responsibility for your actions and emotions.
Stephen Richards
#22. Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.
Alice Miller
#23. One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#24. Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.
Stephen Richards
#25. You can learn to heal yourself, learn to understand that the pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow!
Stephen Richards
#26. Other people may well not find it relevant that you have forgiven yourself, but you need to know that it is not for them anyway. Everything at the moment is wholly about you.
Stephen Richards
#28. The same zeal and guts with which you were persistent not to forgive is the same zeal and enthusiasm with which you should be able to open up a new relationship with your partner, loved one or friend, one that is founded on commitment and dedication.
Stephen Richards
#29. If someone suffers enough pain and abuse, his volitional capacities will diminish to nothing.
David L. Conroy
#30. The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.
Stephen Richards
#31. Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request.
Dalai Lama
#32. The major abscess in the mind is a lack of acknowledgement of evil.
Stefan Molyneux
#33. No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
Edward Livingston
#34. You are the custodian of your own happiness. What other people say, do or think does not create a basis for your happiness. It is you who decides your own happiness, just like forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#35. Locking ourselves in the situation where we wish for sympathy and want to be looked at as the aggrieved party normally makes us powerless.
Stephen Richards
#36. Just because someone wakes up one morning and says, "Today I am going to be rich," does not automatically make them rich. So the same is true with forgiveness, it has to come from the heart with meaning, that is when it works best.
Stephen Richards
#37. I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.
Donna Lynn Hope
#38. Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.
Stephen Richards
#39. Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.
Stephen Richards
#40. We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
Stephen Richards
#41. How I wish, how fervently I ache, to take my mother's hand, kiss her check,tell her I love her, and watch her smile. For me it was not, nor can ever be. But for you, reach out now. Reach out for your mother's hand-the hands of those you love. Say I love you.
Don't wait.
M.J. Burke Sr.
#42. Vivisection is wrong because it is an abuse of man's power over the helpless, involving pain and suffering. The name for this is cruelty, and cruelty is immoral, no matter what the reason for its introduction.
Jon Evans
#43. 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 sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."
~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher
Richelle E. Goodrich
#45. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
Stephen Richards
#46. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Stephen Richards
#47. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#48. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
Stephen Richards
#50. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Stephen Richards
#51. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Stephen Richards
#52. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
Stephen Richards
#53. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
Stephen Richards
#55. Mental anguish always results from the avoidance of legitimate suffering.
Stefan Molyneux
#56. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#57. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#59. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#60. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#61. There are many who don't wish to sleep for fear of nightmares. Sadly, there are many who don't wish to wake for the same fear.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#62. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
#63. Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
Anna Funder
#64. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#65. All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
Stephen Richards
#66. The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
Stephen Richards
#68. There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#69. The sequence is suffering, insight, will, action, change.
Allen Wheelis
#70. The past is behind us," said Boudicca,"but the difficulty there is we keep looking over our shoulders.
Michelle Franklin
#71. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
Stephen Richards
#72. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#73. By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.
Stephen Richards
#74. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
Stephen Richards
#75. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
Stephen Richards
#76. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
#77. I value and honor the way that my suffering brings me to further search and surrender.
Maureen Brady
#78. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#79. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#80. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
#81. Almost all people suffer some form of intense inner pain at some times in their lives. The suffering might be depression, anxiety, substance abuse, or suicidal thoughts and it results from the battles we wage against our thoughts as we futilely try to get rid of our historie.
Steven C. Hayes
#82. The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.
Stephen Richards
#83. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#84. The abuse of love, like the abuse of health, brings suffering and death in its train.
Juliette Drouet
