Wounds Quotes

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Pain, Get Well

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a wife, were the two things I really wound up cashing in on when I was writing fluffy magazine pieces.

  Ann Patchett

  Teenager, Writing, Two

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• But grief is a walk alone. Others can be there, and listen. But you will walk alone down your own path, at your own pace, with your sheared-off pain, your raw wounds, you denial, anger, and bitter loss. You'll come to your own peace, hopefully, but it will be on your own, in your own time.

  Cathy Lamb

  Pain, Grief, Loss

  Cathy Lamb (2011). “The First Day of the Rest of My Life”, p.355, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• The differences between people need not act as barriers that wound, harm and drive us apart. Rather, these very differences among cultures and civilizations should be valued as manifestations of the richness of our shared creativity.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  Creativity, Civilization, Differences

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• If you want to find your purpose in life, find your wound.

  Rick Warren

  Purpose, Want, Ifs

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• Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspiring, Divorce

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 02, 2014

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• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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• Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.

  David Richo

  Relationship, Beautiful, Get Well

  David Richo (2007). “The Power of Coincidence: How Life Shows Us What We Need to Know”, p.17, Shambhala Publications

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• There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Sad, Depression, Pain

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• Even when the wound is healed the scar remains.

  Publilius Syrus

  Scar, Healed, Remains

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 236, 1856.

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• Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.

  Gautama Buddha

  Happiness, Inspiring, Buddhist

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Sex, Pain, Memories

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• When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving much advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a gentle and tender hand.

  Henri Nouwen

  Love, Friendship, Pain

  "Kindness Can Open Hearts and Unexpected Opportunities" by Kare Anderson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2015.

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• Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

  Haruki Murakami

  Heart, Forever, Staring

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84: Books 1 and 2”, p.236, Random House

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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  Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

  Tori Amos

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

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• He jests at scars that never felt a wound.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Wounds And Scars, Romeo And Juliet Love

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds.

  Henri Nouwen

  Bridges, Hatred, Division

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• I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

  Pope Francis

  Blood, Church, Battle

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.54, A&C Black

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• Be careful what you say. You can say something hurtful in ten seconds, but ten years later, the wounds are still there.

  Joel Osteen

  Years, Hurtful, Be Careful

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• A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

  Jessamyn West

  Broken Heart, Forever, Bones

  Jessamyn West (1979). “The life I really lived: a novel”, Harcourt

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• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, God, Nursing

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• The wounded recognized the wounded.

  Nora Roberts

  Recognition, Similarity, Recognizing

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.309, Penguin

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• Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.

  Pope Francis

  Touching, Suffering, Trying

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