“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
― Lao Tzu

I was looking at my bird feeders and I noticed one thing in particular. There was a big red headed woodpecker on top of the feeder. I also noticed several doves on the ground and a female cardinal on the feeder. There were several different types of birds at the feeder. Crows and squirrels there also. My point here is we, here, are all different but we can still feed off of each other in healing. We can't let our differences keep us from helping one another. Just a quick thought. Hope it doesn't sound too stupid.

Not Stupid at all country, thanks for the thoughts

“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.”
― E.E. Cummings

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”


Winston Churchill

This in hind site, is for me the journey that we all take to recover from CSA. WE are all heroes.

“I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what"

Atticus Finch
To kill a Mockingbird

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage.”


Anaïs Nin

“For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.”
Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button screenplay

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it. ~J.K. Rowling

People say that money is not the key to happiness. I figure that if you have enough money, you can always get a key made.
-Joan Rivers