Abuse grows from attitudes and values, not feelings. The roots are ownership, the trunk is entitlement, and the branches are control.
– Lundy Bancroft
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- Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not -œcure- partner abuse. – Lundy Bancroft
- As a product of Anglo-Saxon-Protestant culture, I am familiar with its centuries-old tradition of hiding its abuse of women under pretty packaging. – Lundy Bancroft
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- Abuse counselors say of the abusive client: -œWhen he looks at himself in the morning and sees his dirty face, he sets about washing the mirror. – Lundy Bancroft
- Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days-¦ – Kellie Elmore
- (…) pick up your axe, start at the rootsdon’t miss the trunk, never forget:to end life truly and finallystart at the roots or end there. – Moonshine Noire
- AT any given time we are either taking Ownership or Blaming, Ownership is a better choice!! – Harrish Sairaman
- Trees raised their naked, mottled branches to the sky like mourners stilled in attitudes of grief. – Arundhati Roy
- The branches do not support the root. But the root supports the branches. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Our values define who we’re. Never met great persons who kept compromising their values. Let’s go beyond lip service to defend our values… – Assegid Habtewold
- Politics is like a branches on a tree, they all grow in different directions but their roots remain as one. – Saminu Kanti
- It is in the roots, not the branches, that a tree’s greatest strength lies. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Digging through my roots to understand the way my branches grew. – Saleem Haddad
- Do the roots reveal everything to the branches, or do they keep what is painful to themselves? – Sinan Antoon
- And though our roots belong to the same tree, our branches have grown in different directions. – Suzy Kassem
- A tree’s beauty lies in its branches, but its strength lies in its roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- As the story grew, it put down roots into the past and threw out unexpected branches . – JRR Tolkien
- Even the highest branches cannot deny that they have roots in a common bond. – KM Tepe
- Prune the ill branches so that a tree grows.Prune the dilapidated buildings so that a city flourishes. – Khang Kijarro Nguyen
- As Christians we are constantly bombarded with attitudes and values which are contrary to biblical teaching. – Billy Graham
- Vision unknown is self-abuse. Vision known is self-abuse discovery. But vision applied is self-liberation. Application is the key – Israelmore Ayivor
- Rebuke without love is abuse. But, a love that would never rebuke? I dare to admit that that, too, would be a kind of abuse. – Criss Jami
- Just as trees need roots in the earth, man is also a tree and needs roots in existence or else he will live a very unintelligent life. – Osho
- …We’ll exchange rings, we’ll throw rice. We’ll put down roots.’We don’t have roots. We’re network people. We have aerials. – Bruce Sterling
- Good parents…give their children roots and wings. Roots to know where home is, wings to fly away and exercise what’s been taught them. – Bettie B Youngs
- Power & Money are fruits of life! But Family &Friends re roots of life! We can manage without fruits, But can never stand without roots. – Daniel Friday Danzor
- A small tree with large roots will last longer than a large tree with small roots. – Matshona Dhliwayo
- Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- The Leader who grows his team not just in numbers but by nurturing the roots of their success,has planted a field of dreams – Bluenscottish
- Feelings could override facts, as facts could alter feelings. Choose the truth first, rather than following after feelings. – Anthony Liccione
- Experts say that denying bad feelings intensifies them, acknowledging bad feelings allows good feelings to return. – Gretchen Rubin
- Without moral values, which should begin in Congress, America will lose her roots, her basis, her thesis. – Janine Turner
- Now I know this is going to seem counter to every instinct that you have, but I’m going to ask you to sit still, or I’ll put you in the trunk. – Anna White
- They were steaming out of the station before Maia asked, ‘Was it books in the trunk?”It was books, admitted Miss Minton.And Maia said, ‘Good. – Eva Ibbotson
- So what did you do, drug me, stuff me in the trunk, then dump me like a sacrificial offering into that vampire’s coffin? – Shella – Krista Alasti
- In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure. – AJ Gallant
- His gaze glossed over a stack of wooden crates and landed on a steamer trunk that was covered with stickers from all over the world. – Megan Frazer Blakemore
- I AM the current curator of the black trunk and the stories it holds within. – Hope Barrett
- Breaking the personality is like cutting the tree in its trunk, it needs years to be grown as it was-Œ. – Kamaran Ihsan Salih