Awareness Quotes

"Don’t confuse “familiar” with “acceptable”. Toxic relationships can fool you like that."

- Steve Maraboli

"Domestic violence is not physical violence alone, it can be verbal. This case of violence can happen to anyone regardless of age and gender. Many people who experience domestic violence don’t even realize that they are in an abusive relationship."

- Zisilia Alvsa

"Domestic abuse happens only in intimate, interdependent, long-term relationships—in other words, in families—the last place we would want or expect to find violence."

- Leslie Morgan Steiner

"Domestic violence is an epidemic, and yet we don’t address it. Until it happens to celebrities."

- Nelsan Ellis

"When you possess light within, you see it externally."

- Anaïs Nin

"An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it."

- James A. Michener

"The only way to stop gaslighting is to shine the light of reality onto a situation. That makes it imperative for the perpetrator to keep victims in the dark."

- Heather Cox Richardson

"Suicide is not a remedy."

- James A. Garfield

"Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because it's fake."

- froggojumper

"No one is as dumb as all of us together In my experience, this is the truth. A camel is a horse built by committee."

- SadMacaroon9897

"Don't forget, you're here forever"

- bife_de_lomo

"Feeling a little blue in January is normal."

- Marilu Henner

"It is also about opening the child’s eyes to the needs and rights of others."

- Dalai Lama

"True pain cannot be concealed."

- Serbian Proverb

"It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt."

- Zakiya Caswell

"It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time."

- Willie Nelson

"Not everyone you lose is a loss."

- Dan Mace

"We are not in control of pain. No matter how hard we try. Not of the cause or the duration – only the response."

- Ryan Holiday

"You aren’t really being rejected – you’re being redirected."

- Mel Robbins

"Recognize reality even when you don’t like it— especially when you don’t like it."

- Charlie Munger

"Pain is only bearable if we know it will end, not if we deny it exists."

- Victor Frankl

"It hurts because it matters."

- John Green

"One is never wounded by the love one gives, only by the love one expects."

- Marty Rubin

"Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you."

- Natsuki Takaya

"Someone who smiles too much with you can sometime frown too much with you at your back."

- Michael Bassey Johnson

"It was the moment I realized what music can do to people, how it can make you hurt and feel so good all at once."

- Nina LaCour

"As one grows weaker, one is less susceptible to suffering. There is less hurt because there is less to hurt."

- Jack London

"In dazzling darkness now revealed glory hidden whilst in mortal fields."

"As shadows end where light transcends, in dazzling darkness now glory hidden revealed."

"Suicide doesn't end the chances of life getting worse, it eliminates the possibility of it ever getting any better."

- Unknown