I used this a lot pertaining to my healing from CSA.

“You can have anything you want–if you want it badly enough.
You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to
accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.”

-William Adams

"The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced."

"If the occurrence of rape were audible, its decibel level equal to its frequency, it would overpower our days and nights, interrupt our meals, our bedtime stories, howl behind our love-making, an insistent jackhammer of distress. We would demand an end to it. And if we failed to locate its source, we would condemn the whole structure. We would refuse to live under such conditions."


Patricia Weaver Francisco

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself"

George Bernard Shaw.

"Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions."

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“I strongly believe that love is the answer and that it can mend even the deepest unseen wounds. Love can heal, love can console, love can strengthen, and yes, love can make change.”

Somaly Mam, The Road of Lost Innocence: The True Story of a Cambodian Heroine

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Just a silly one for today among the seriousness of what is happening.

"If your father is a poor man, it is your fate but, if your father-in-law is a poor man , it's your stupidity."

Heal well all
Martin

Because it is fathers day, well it is in South Africa on Sunday.
A few quotes. I know that not all of us had a great experience with our father, but chances are a few of us are fathers.

"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."
Kent Nerburn

"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."
Author Unknown

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

Harmon Killebrew

"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
William Wordsworth

And Lastly and this is a little personal

"The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God;
I call him Dad!"
~Author Unknown

Happy fathers day and heal well all
Martin

“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”


Nicholas Sparks, At First Sight