...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons) — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
I live my own life and nurse my own wounds. It's not the best way to live. But it's the way I… — Jeffrey Eugenides Copy Share Image
God was someone I wound up turning over and over in my mind each night... Was He punishing me with this meal… — David Sedaris Copy Share Image
The first man . . . ventured to call food and nourishment the parts that had a little before bellowed and cried,… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Your character defects are not where you're bad, but where you're wounded. But no matter who or what causes the wound, it's… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“[Babbington] "What did [the Doctor, Stephen] do to you, sir?" [Captain Aubrey] "Well, I am ashamed to say he took a pistol-ball… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the… — Caryll Houselander Copy Share Image
With impeccable timing and a fine instinct for the telling detail, Francesca Abbate evokes the plenitudes and the deprivations of human habitation,… — Linda Gregerson Copy Share Image
Sometimes it was easier to swim with the current rather than fight against it. There was always a shallow pool somewhere ahead.… — Helen Hollick Copy Share Image
The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power… — John Robbins Copy Share Image
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
There is now a patent restricting the use of an herb called philantis neruri for curing jaundice. An even more blatant example… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
I pointed to the wound. "It's missing," I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
Unless you are fulfilling your spiritual mission (and this is my opinion totally), you anaesthetize yourself or you wound yourself. — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to… — David Richo Copy Share Image
He smiles sadly. "Now I know my destiny." "What is it?" "This." He draws me in to him in a kiss. His… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
It's funny how, even long after you've accepted the grief of losing someone you love and truly have gotten on with your… — Mary Higgins Clark 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
There is no small degree of malicious craft in fixing upon a season to give a mark of enmity and ill-will: a… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
First try all other means, but if the wound Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean From the diseased… — Ovid Copy Share Image
I wound up auditioning, wound up getting in, and I was off to the races: I was putting in four more years… — Peter Jacobson Copy Share Image
Recognizing that sustainable development, democracy and peace are indivisible is an idea whose time has come... Today we are faced with a… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and… — Erin Morgenstern Copy Share Image
