We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which,… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is… — Rachel Naomi Remen Copy Share Image
I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually… — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake,… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
“My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“It can be proven that wounded people wound others. Walk circumspectly among wounded people, their injuries are deeply submerged in their brain's… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“A wound gives strange dignity to him who bears it. Well men shy from his new and terrible majesty. It is as… — Stephen Crane Copy Share Image
“Great depth of beingness and creativity often come with great woundedness.” — Kathryn V. White Copy Share Image
The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others. — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
“You are more than your virginity. You are more than your sexual history. You are more than what happens to you. You… — Ruth Everhart Copy Share Image
Your noble friend will not accept pretension but will gently and very firmly confront you with your own blindness. Such friendship is… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt… — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
