Wounds Quotes - Page 33

• Illusions are like umbrellas - you no sooner get them than you lose them, and the loss always leaves a little painful wound.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Loss, Littles, Painful

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• Control of the tongue! Vital for the man who would try to tread the Path, for no harsh or unkind word, no hasty impatient phrase, may escape from the tongue which is consecrated to service, and which must not injure even an enemy; for that which wounds has no place in the Kingdom of Love.

  Annie Besant

  Men, Enemy, Trying

  Annie Besant (1943). “Daily meditations on the path and its qualifications: from the works of Annie Besant”

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• While the poet wrestles with the horses on his brain and the sculptor wounds his eyes on the hard spark of alabaster, the dancer battles the air around her, air that threatens at any moment to destroy her harmony or to open huge open empty spaces where her rhythm will be annihilated.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Horse, Eye, Air

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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. Anaïs Nin I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved. George Eliot Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star.

  e. e. cummings

  Strong, Stars, Betrayal

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• Those who manage change in modern organizations need to learn to dance, to become healers capable of releasing collective energy to heal the wounds of change.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Organization, Energy, Needs

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• The tragedy of our lives is that, while we suffer from the wounds afflicted on us by those who love us, we cannot avoid wounding those we want to love.

  Henri Nouwen

  Suffering, Tragedy, Want

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• Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, People, Shame

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• Today the heart of God is an open wound of love. He aches over our distance and preoccupation. He mourns that we do not draw near to Him. He grieves that we have forgotten Him. He weeps over our obsession with muchness and manyness. He longs for our presence.

  Richard J. Foster

  Distance, Heart, Grieving

  Richard J. Foster (2009). “Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home”, p.1, Harper Collins

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• A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Sides, Heal, Exposed

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• I submit my tongue as an instrument of righteousness when I make it bless them that curse me and pray for them who persecute me, even though it "automatically" tends to strike and wound those who have wounded me. I submit my legs to God as instruments of righteousness when I engage them in physical labor as service, perhaps carrying a burden the "second mile" for someone whom I would rather let my legs kick. I submit my body to righteousness when I do my good deeds without letting them be known, though my whole frame cries out to strut and crow.

  Dallas Willard

  Crow, Body, Legs

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• People will not receive the balm of the gospel unless they know something of the wounds that sin has made.

  Charles Spurgeon

  People, Sin, Made

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1896). “The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit”

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• I'm looking at the head of the household, and the house hasn't been run properly for a long time, ... Clinton was the first person ever to make a formal apology to black people for slavery, which was very warm and appreciated. But African-Americans haven't healed at all . The wound is still very open. And seeing the differences in how people live, it just puts salt in it- constantly . Seeing the way we're treated within these United States ... it burns you even more every day.

  Jill Scott

  Running, Apology, Differences

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• As an individual with my own hurts, I go into the Garden (Gethsemane) as often as I need to. There I identify with the pain in the other, with my part in that pain, my part in tempting someone to wound me. I experience the other's pain, and God's pain, and am devastated - because their pain becomes my own. Feeling such anguish, I can forgive, or deeply repent, either for myself or on behalf of the other.

  John Sandford

  Hurt, Pain, Garden

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• In the Ramtops village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no-one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away - until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence.

  Terry Pratchett

  Real, Believe, Wine

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• Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

  Barack Obama

  Hurt, Law, Community

  Barack Obama's remarks on Ferguson, Mo. and Iraq at the White House in Washington, D.C., www.washingtonpost.com. August 18, 2014.

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• Wherever you go, there you are. Whatever you wind up doing, that's what you've wound up doing. Whatever you are thinking right now, that's what's on your mind. Whatever has happened to you, it has already happened. The important question is, "how are you going to handle it?"
  .... Like it or not, this moment is all we really have to work with.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Thinking, Wind, Mind

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2016). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation for everyday life”, p.7, Hachette UK

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• Plot exposition that can be gently wound out by the authorial voice and internal monologue of a character in the length of a page has to be delivered in a matter of seconds on the stage.

  Terry Pratchett

  Character, Voice, Pages

  Terry Pratchett (2014). “A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-fiction”, p.107, Random House

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• Storytelling has always been at the heart of being human because it serves some of our most basic needs: passing along our traditions, confessing failings, healing wounds, engendering hope, strengthening our sense of community.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Healing, Heart, Community

  Parker J. Palmer (2009). “A Hidden Wholeness: The Journey Toward an Undivided Life”, p.122, John Wiley & Sons

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• I would caution anyone who thinks the solution is to get out to realize that Iraq will be our problem, whether we're there or not, for years to come. It will not be Vietnam; it will not let us go home and lick our wounds.

  George Packer

  Home, Thinking, Years

  "An author's confession -- he got the war wrong / George Packer supported Iraq invasion, but now fears spiraling civil conflict". Interview with Steven Winn, www.sfgate.com. December 4, 2005.

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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 are going to bleed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Old Wounds, People

  Iyanla Vanzant (1995). “Interiors: A Black Woman's Healing--in Progress”, Writers & Readers

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• What I'm most interested in is not necessarily the wound, but the scar. Not how someone is wounded, but what the scar does later.

  Daniel Alarcon

  Doe, Scar, Wounded

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I would rather not write if I'm depressed, or am going through a breakup, or I've had some disappointment, or I'm having a family issue. You don't want to just put out an open wound. Sometimes that just isn't even really good writing. Good writing should be good writing and storytelling and not just therapy or someone's personal journal.

  Mandy Stadtmiller

  Breakup, Disappointment, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years after school to train to be an actor. I was 26 years old, and I still had a locker, for Christ's sake!

  Peter Jacobson

  School, Race, Years

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The White Horse video which was directed by Marco Ovando started off with a biker theme. Once Ava Sanjurjo came in as stylist along with Marco & I it really took it's own shape. It was all very improvised but wound up paying homage to NY and night life. People say it reminds them of a Guess ad which I love!

  Nomi Ruiz

  Horse, Night, White

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• So often we think of a wound or a loss as making a person feel more deeply, become a better person. But I don't think that always happens. I think it can constrict people's lives, especially if they don't push beyond it.

  Leni Zumas

  Loss, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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