Greeting cards for BPD relationship survivors

[Depression = 72% of members]

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ~ Maya Angelou

[martymcfly5]

You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. ~ Maya Angelou

[winston72]

That is a great quote!  Thank you, MMcFly. 

I have another one from Maya Angelou:

“When someone shows you who they are believe them; the first time.”

My, how concise and true.  How silly, if perhaps also arrogant and controlling of me to have thought that I knew otherwise or that "things could turn out differently" meaning of course that they might resolve in the manner that I wanted. 

[Tausk]

“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way.”

― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning

Thanks for the thread.   Recovery is possible and then we have the opportunity to live the life of which we have always dreamed.

[kc sunshine]

Oh my mama told me

'Cause she say she learned the hard way

She say don't give or sell your soul away

'Cause all that you have is your soul

oldie but goodie from Tracy Chapman

[kc sunshine]

also:

"love is patient, love is kind"

[Loveofhislife]

Winston 72: great quote--I heard Oprah quoted that from Maya frequently. Mostly I appreciate your interpretation and agree--it was my pride and arrogance that led me to believe and compelled me to think I could control someone who my head told me was DANGER from the beginning. My heart and my inner child wanted to believe something that my head knew wasn't true.

"You never loved me; you loved what I could do for you. And I loved a dream: my dream. In essence, we were only players in each other's fantasies: a chimera" ME

[Recooperating]

I read 2 quotes today that struck a cord:

Mindgames: there is no game of chess, if the pawns refuse to play.

And

The light at the end of the tunnel is not an illusion; the tunnel is.