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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted? — N. K. Jemisin Copy Share Image
I learned that true forgiveness includes total self-acceptance. And out of acceptance wounds are healed and happiness is possible again. — Catherine Marshall Copy Share Image
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Not all scars show not all wounds heal. Sometimes you can't see the pain that someone feels. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jane, I never meant to wound you thus...Will you ever forgive me?" Reader, I forgave him at the moment and on the… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
Love her, love her, love her! If she favours you, love her. If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
There is a difference between justice and consideration in one's relations to one's fellow men. It is the function of justice not… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Yes, even amongst wiser militants, how many wounds have been given, and credits slain, for the poor victory of an opinion, or… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
A flock of sheep near the airport or a high voltage generator beside the orchard: these combinations open up my life like… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
I said: what about my eyes? God said: Keep them on the road. I said: what about my passion? God said: Keep… — Rumi Copy Share Image
War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Well, I always say that the two things I was most disastrous at in my life, being a teenager and being a… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
I was bright, and I could use that as a weapon: words can wound, whatever those sticks and stones sayings claim about… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
I had to de-program myself. From myself. Had to reinvent rituals of purification. So full of the vagrant pollutions of others. It… — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Growth of the soul is our goal, and there are many ways to encourage that growth, such as through love, nature, healing… — Joan Z. Borysenko Copy Share Image
[...] We have to realize that this wound [of loneliness] is inherent in the human condition and that what we have to… — Jean Vanier Copy Share Image
“A big slice of the strange, a zap to the synaptic net, the shock of unending Otherness moistened with meaning, special stinks,… — Gregory Benford Copy Share Image
According to Shiva, life is in the end about fixing holes. Shiva didn't speak in metaphors. fixing holes is precisely what he… — Abraham Verghese Copy Share Image
They mustn't know my despair, I can't let them see the wounds which they have caused, I couldn't bear their sympathy and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people.… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered… — Nicholas Wolterstorff Copy Share Image
“for when the thrill of his body fades or changes, and the difficulties of pledging yourself to only one person surface, kindness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the things that feels so challenging is how questioning Israel and the idea of a Jewish state somehow opens the… — Jill Soloway Copy Share Image
Old maids claw as cats do. They not only inflict wounds but experience pleasure in doing so. Nor will they fail to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
I have an enduring, very robust infatuation with dictators. I have an infatuation with Stalin, Mao, and Mussolini. In the Paris Review… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
Afflictions, like bills and pikes, make a terrible show when they cannot reach us; but the temptations of prosperity, like unseen bullets,… — George Downame Copy Share Image
“The greatest misunderstanding that we confront every day in the mental health arena is thinking all emotional wounds are trauma. The greatest… — Antonieta Contreras Copy Share Image
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The blood that poured from Christ's wounds bought your salvation. If you want to truly value what He did, think of Him… — Charles Stanley Copy Share Image
When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the wind from… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
When a person has adequate self-esteem little slights offer no threat at all - they are simply "passed over" and ignored. Even… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Self-awareness is a supreme gift, a treasure as precious as life. This is what makes us human. But it comes with a… — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Mark, how the ready hands of Death prepare: His bow is bent, and he hath notch'd his dart; He aims, he levels… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
Our greatest privilege and responsibility as leaders of the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs is to provide our veterans with a system… — Steve Buyer Copy Share Image
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