#victim

The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#dreamer #question #victim #visionary #who-you-are

How would your life be different if…You stopped validating your victim mentality? Let today be the day…You shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#drama #inspirational #life #self-empowerment #victim-mentality

I am not a victim. No matter what I have been through, I'm still here. I have a history of victory. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #motivational #success #victim-mentality #victory

To my abusers: I forgive you. ↗

— Pattie Mallette

#justin-bieber #loving #pain #pattie-malette #suffering

Nice people don't necessarily fall in love with nice people. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#co-dependence #divorce #idealism #idealists #marriage

Always the innocent are the first victims, so it has been for ages past, so it is now. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#centaurs #innocent #ronan #victims #age

I rise today to offer a formal and heartfelt apology to all the victims of lynching in our history, and for the failure of the United States Senate to take action when action was most needed. ↗

— George Allen

#apology #failure #formal #heartfelt #history

Pre-teens, teens and college students have unlimited access to the Internet - 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Because of the repeated exposure they have to illegal Internet gambling sites, they fall victim by the thousands. ↗

— Spencer Bachus

#because #college #college students #day #days

In all the horror films that I have done, all of those women were strong women. I don't feel I ever played the victim, although I was always in jeopardy. ↗

— Adrienne Barbeau

#always #done #ever #feel #films

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain. ↗

— Marek Belka

#international #iraq #madrid #otherwise #our