"... as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.  As are liberated from our own fear our own presence automatically liberates others." - Nelson Mandela

"There is no failure except in no longer trying.  There is no defeat except from within, no really insurmountable barrier save our own inherent weakness of purpose." Elbert Hubbard

"The bond between a mother and her child is naturally sacred. It is physical, psychological and spiritual. It is very resilient and very flexible. It can stretch very far - naturally.  Any artificial or violent injury to this "stretch"  constitutes a serious psychic trauma to both  mother and child - for all eternity. This means that children need their mothers and mothers need their children - whether or not a  mother is married or unmarried."- Mothers On Trial, The Battle For Children and Custody, by Phyllis Chesler, copyright 1986, 1987

"You will not grow if you sit in a beautiful flower garden, but you will grow if you are sick, in pain, experience losses and if you do not put your head in the sand, but take the pain and learn to accept it, not as a curse or punishment but as a gift to you with a very, very specific purpose." - Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Only eyes washed by tears can see clearly" - Louis Mann

"There are ex-husbands and ex-wives but there are no ex-moms, ex-dads or ex-children" - Anon

"The horrors of war, pale beside the loss of a mother" - Anna Freud  (and the loss of a child) - JS

"Adoption Loss is the only trauma in the world where the victims are expected by the whole of society to be grateful" -
The Reverend Keith C. Griffith, MBE

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