“The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.” — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Some wounds broke open and had to be stitched closed with patience and prayer.” — Francine Rivers Copy Share Image
From kings to cobblers 'tis the same; Bad servants wound their masters' fame. — John Gay Copy Share Image
I fall to pieces when I am hurt, but when it comes to my children, I am a pillar of strength, applying… — Sridevi Copy Share Image
“Respect the wounds which you gave like that Keep them in Heart for forever and never treated” — Mohammed Zaki Ansari Copy Share Image
The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Jesus kept his wounds so that we would experience his mercy. This is our strength and our hope. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Neither of them had learned, after two divorces, that people can’t be applied to wounds like gauze.” — Christie Yant Copy Share Image
Christ bears the wounds of the church, his body, just as he bore the wounds of crucifixion. I sometimes wonder which have… — Philip Yancey Copy Share Image
She was battered and beaten up, and not smiling this time. Liesel could see it on her face. Blood leaked from her… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
LOGOMACHY, n. A war in which the weapons are words and the wounds punctures in the swim-bladder of self-esteem - a kind… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm not the poorest president. The poorest is the one who needs a lot to live. My lifestyle is a consequence of… — Jose Mujica Copy Share Image
Negative thoughts were treated by Cherokee healers with the same medicines as wounds, headaches, or physical illness. It was believed that unchecked… — Wilma Mankiller Copy Share Image
...you have to learn where your pain is. You have to burrow down and find the wound, and if the burden of… — Jane Hamilton Copy Share Image
“We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
Far happier he, who, young and full of pride And radiant with the glory of the sun, Leaves earth before his singing… — Kobo Abe Copy Share Image
After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and… — Joe Abercrombie Copy Share Image
What he would say, he cannot say to this woman whose openness is like a wound, whose youth is not mortal yet.… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
Learning is not to be tacked to the mind, but we must fuse and blend them together, not merely giving the mind… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
I imagined a psychic pain growing inside him (myself) that demanded some physical outlet. Suicide must have been his attempt to give… — Phillip Lopate Copy Share Image
I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for… — Lawrence Block Copy Share Image
For a bag of pepper, they could cut each other's throats without hesitation, and would forswear their souls... The bizarre obstinacy of… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren't ignoring… — Warsan Shire Copy Share Image
