That is great! My ex verbally abused me in so many ways, I wish he would have learned this! He's a drunken bastard too.

Pointed ironic remarks generally call for laughter and maybe an upper-arm punch. Perhaps it wasn't all that funny?

Life is all about self-improvement trying to do and be a better person everyday

I will speak ill of no man, and speak all the good I know of everybody.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

It's a great quote..but not always easy to follow...?

This is a principle I try to live by every day, but I particularly like the distilled poignancy captured here.

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I don't believe that, but then again, in the real world I'm filling the air with about 90 percent cheerful things, godawful puns, and meows. My abusers used silence as a weapon and, while I'm perfectly capable of existing without speaking, it's difficult. I was also forever being told to shut up and now, almost 20 years after I escaped, I'm still just speaking whenever I want (though not as much as I used to). I understand that the fewer hurtful things you throw at people the better, but not everyone has to be laconic. Very little of what I say is 'valuable' or 'meaningful,' but it's not hurting anyone, so out of my face it goes.

I have a slightly different policy. I don't say anything if I don't have anything of substance to say. This drives some people crazy, which is as good a reason to keep doing it as any other.

That's true. You are wrong the same if you are silent (because is more easy or confortable for you) when you must speak.

That's true. You are wrong the same if you are silent (because is more easy or confortable for you) when you must speak.