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~The best thing you can do is realize that there is nothing wrong with you, and that it isn't your fault everything around
you was the crazy part.~
"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no ones definition of your life; define
yourself."~Harvey Fierstein
Our Deepest Fear,
Is not that we are inadequate,
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is out light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?"
Actually, who are you not to be?
You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure
around you.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God.
It is not just in some of us,
It is in everyone.
And as we let out own light shine,
We unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from out own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
"I'm a grown woman. I've earned my experiences, my scars." -Tori Amos
The desire to forget the past is a form of suicide.
I have come to believe that many of us would sooner die than remove our masks and stand barefaced before the world.
-Richard Bode
"What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us."
-Henry David Thoreau
"You don't have to justify anything. Being pissed off is absolutely ok." ~Tori Amos
"A victim lives in fear. A Survivor endures. A victim is weak and powerless, paying for what was not her doing. A Survivor
has grown strong because she knows the price is not hers to pay, the sin is not hers to atone."
I'm proud. Proud of me. I've fought to keep going and succeeded, I felt like giving up but I never did. I kept going. My experiences
have only made me more determined to fulfill my dreams and live life to the fullest.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that I won. And I always will because there's nothing anyone can do to me that will
take away who I am.
~Charlene~
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It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back
and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer."
~Tori Amos~
How do you pick up the threads of an old life? How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand: there is no going
back? There are some things that time cannot mend; some hurts that go too deep, that have taken hold.
~Lord of Rings: Return of the King
"And when I chose to live, there was no joy, it's just a line I crossed. I was not worth the pain my death would cost,
so I was not lost or found...
Maybe life chose me, after all." ~Dar Williams
"The idea is to rescue myself from the role of a victim. That I have a choice left. Though I can't change what has happened,
I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up." -Tori Amos
"For many years, I shut down that place inside myself that needed to rage, cry, ask questions and basically just express
herself. I made a conscious choice when I put 'Me and a Gun' on the record not to stay a victim anymore." -- Tori Amos
"You decide whether you look at your reality or live pretending these feelings don't exist." -Tori Amos
Do not go gentle into that good night . . . Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
"The last thing I want to be known as is 'The Girl Who Got Raped'. The big turn around you make in your head is from
victim to survivor."
-Tori Amos
"If they keep crashing stuff into the moon trying to find water and then the moon gets pissed off and the tides change
and all women start PMS-ing together, you guys are going to fucking regret that." ~Tori Amos
"I'm not fighting to get "better," I'm fighting to get "back" ... the thing i've been missing all
this time: myself."
I long for one day, just one to be happy, truely happy and smile a real smile
Not because I've been drinking,
Not because I haven't slept in days
But because I'm finally at peace
I have found that peace and now I smile for no reason at all. As some my say I am on a "pink cloud", and I ain't
letting it go.
-Kristine
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It used to be that when I looked in the mirror, I saw the girl I used to be at thirteen....I had glasses, braces, pimples,
a horrible perm and an awkward smile. Now, the face is more relaxed, with less fear manifesting itself by the corners of my
eyes, a smile that hides a secret but not awkwardness, and a glow that comes somewhere from inside. It's true that the braces
have long been gone and the horrible perm was left behind in junior high, but the pimples and glasses still come and go at
leisure. The thirteen year old peaking out from behind them though has moved to a better place, a place of memories. I still
don't love the person I see looking back, but I appreciate that face and look for new surprises in that mirror, whether that
is a freckle, like the one on the lower side of my right cheek, that I didn't know I had, or the laugh lines around my mouth
becoming more noticable.
We are told to forgive and forget ... But I couldn't forgive and I couldn't forget ... Then I realized .. I have a right to
remember and I leave the forgiving to a higher being.
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