#imp

Ninety-six per cent of juvenile prostitutes are fugitives from abusive domestic situations; 66 per cent began working before they turned 16. (Prostitution is their only perceived means of survival.) Millions of children work as prostitutes around the world. A third are male. One study revealed that over 50 per cent of prostitutes are the children of alcoholics or substance abusers, and 90 per cent are deflowered through incest or rape. Ninety-one per cent of prostitutes do not speak of the abuse. (The truth of life is told through the language of behavior.) Abused children suffer Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, guilt, self-destructive impulses, suspicion, fear. Seventy-five per cent of prostitutes attempt suicide. (Imagine their scrapbook of memories.) ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#children-of-alcoholics #fear #guilt #incest #juvenile-prostitutes

After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string. ↗

— L.M. Montgomery

#inspirational #pearls #pleasures #simple #inspirational

Make the most of yourself....for that is all there is of you. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#inspirational #self-improvement #inspirational

Whenever you look back and say "if" you know you're in trouble. There is no such thing as "if". The only thing that matters is what really happened. ↗

— D.J. MacHale

#importance #trouble #death

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough. ↗

— Rabindranath Tagore

#inspirational #inspirational

The greatest ideas are the simplest. ↗

— William Golding

#simplicity #inspirational

This will help us next year with the World Cup. I can imagine a lot of visitors from abroad will be here and asking what happened between 1933 and 1945. A lot of that will come up. I think this will make an important contribution to those discussions. ↗

— Otto Schily

#asking #between #come #contribution #cup

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible ↗

— Mildred D. Taylor

#inspirational #possibility #inspirational

If gold rusts, what then can iron do? ↗

— Geoffrey Chaucer

#fallibility #flaws #gold #imperfection #inspirational

Cause we lost it all Nothing lasts forever I'm sorry I can't be perfect Now it's just too late And we can't go back I'm sorry I can't be perfect ↗

— Simple Plan

#inspirational #simple-plan #inspirational