Brand New Quotes! Educate Yourself and Learn More Here! "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are." - E.E. Cummings "Mistakes are always forgivable. If one has the courage to admit them." - Bruce Lee "Along with emotional and mental abuse, financial abuse acts like a cancer, growing undetected since there are no outward signs - like a bruise or broken bone - to signal something is wrong." - Suzanna Quintana "Financial abuse is like underground warfare: The battle is being waged, but many times it's unbeknownst to the victim since there is no clear and present danger." - Suzanna Quintana "When you're different, sometimes you don't see the millions of people who accept you for what you are. All you notice is the person who doesn't." - Jodi Picoult "The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore." - C. Joybell "When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier." - Diane Von Furstenberg "If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you're allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind." - Shannon L. Alder "This above all: to thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." - William Shakespeare "When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance." - Oscar Wilde "Praising and encouraging are very close to pushing, and when you do that you are trying again to take control of his life. Think about why you are lauding something he's done. Is it to help raise his self-esteem? That's manipulation. Is it so he will continue whatever behavior you're praising? That's manipulation. Is it so that he'll know how proud you are of him? That can be a burden for him to carry. Let him develop his own pride from his own accomplishments." - Robin Norwood