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“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant.”

— Bryant McGill

“Despite your best effort, people are going to hurt when it's time for them to be hurt. Life is like that.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Sometimes life is not kind, and most times we have to hurt deeply in order to find out how strong and determined we really…

— Yara Greathouse

“Maybe you receive pain selfishly — thinking only of yourself. The cycle of pain wounds every participant; both victim and aggressor.”

— Bryant McGill

“it takes more courage to heal the world’s hurts than to inflict them.”

— Ann Aguirre

“keep in mind that even those who love you can unknowingly inflict pain when they themselves are hurting”

— Sarah Dosher

“Sometimes we hurt the ones we love, but hurting ourselves to avoid it doesn’t make it better.”

— Shannon A. Thompson

“accept the fact that wounds, some wounds, do not heal; that things, some things, don’t work out, and that not everyone is spared.”

— Claudia Serrano

“To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.”

— Bryant McGill

“We can all take what once hurt us and turn it into what heals us.”

— Brittany Burgunder

“No one can heal you. You must learn to be your own company, your own cure. You cannot retreat into someone else for fulfillment.”

— Janet Mock

“Our wounds are the only thing humbling enough to break our attachment to our false self.”

— Richard Rohr