If you’re anything like me, quotes are more than just something you read passively when you’re bored, and arbitrarily share on social media.
Good quotes are something you actively seek out. Always searching for the ones with deeper meanings behind the words that speak directly to your life experiences.
I find that the best quotes are the ones that resonate deeply within your soul. The ones that remind you that you are not alone, and that there is someone else out there in the world who has been through exactly what you are going through.
Quotes are more than just words, they serve as additional sources of inspiration and encouragement we need when going through difficult spaces in our lives.
If you have experienced abuse as a child, or an adult, and are still dealing with the aftereffects of that trauma, here are 25 inspirational and uplifting quotes on abuse recovery to help encourage you along your healing journey.
1. “You survived the abuse. You’re going to survive the recovery.” —Unknown
2. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” —Mary Anne Radmacher
3. “Anyone can hide. Facing up to things, working through them, that’s what makes you strong.” —Sarah Dessen
4. “Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.” —Ovid
5. “You do have a story; it lies articulate and waiting to be written behind your silence and your suffering.” —Anne Rice
6. “Love is nothing without action. Trust is nothing without proof. And sorry is nothing without change.” —Unknown
7. “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” —Unknown
8. “You are always stronger and more resourceful than you give yourself credit for.” —Rob Moore
9. “I am not what you think I am. You are what you think I am.” —Unknown
10. “Cutting people out of my life does not mean I hate them. It simply means I respect me.” —Unknown
11. “Never argue with someone who believes their own lies.” —Unknown
12. “I’m starting to remember who I was before you convinced me I was worthless.” —Unknown
13. “Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.” —Arthur Golden
14. “No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.” —Buddha
15. “The scars you can’t see are the hardest to heal.” —Unknown
16. “Trauma is personal. It does not disappear if it is not validated. When it is ignored or invalidated the silent screams continue internally heard only by the one held captive. When someone enters the pain and hears the screams healing can begin.” —Danielle Bernock
17. “Lies don’t end relationships, the truth does.” —Shannon L. Alder
18. “Determine your core beliefs – write them out and look at them often. If someone is violating them, evaluate and remove offenders quickly. Take control. Heal the PTSD and live the life you deserve. Be a SurThriver.” —Tracy Malone
19. “Overcoming abuse doesn’t just happen, It takes positive steps every day. Let today be the day you start to move forward.” —Assunta Harris
20. “I am so much more than you told me I was.” —Unknown
21. “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” —C.G. Jung
22. “I don’t think people realize how much strength it takes to pull your own self out of a poisonous situation with someone you love deeply. So if you’ve done that today or any day, I’m proud of you.” —Horacio Jones
23. “Refuse to inherit dysfunction. Learn new ways of living instead of repeating what you lived through.” —Thema Davis
24. “I’ve overcome neglect and deprivation, abandonment and abuse.” —Tatum O’Neal
25. “If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship–you won.” —Lalah Delai
