#injury

Well how many troubles should equal a legitimate reason for self-mutilation? Ten? Twenty? One hundred? And how monumental must these troubles be? There’s probably no critical mass beyond which cutting yourself would ever seem to most people like a reasonable choice. I cut because it did look that way to me. I cut because something had to give. I cut because the alternatives were worse. ↗

— Caroline Kettlewell

#equality

I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine. ↗

— Jane Austen

#forgiveness #injury #mortification #pride #forgiveness

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. ↗

— China Miéville

#injury #inspirational #recovery #scar #scars

When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#dislike #good-turns #injury #kindness #like

Salt. Wound. Together at last. ↗

— Maureen Johnson

#insult

I can feel the hurt. There's something good about it. Mostly it makes me stop remembering. ↗

— Albert Borris

#self-harm #self-injury #suicide #suicide

I'd rather not, but if it will help the club, I'll do it. My ankle injury still bothers me sometimes. ↗

— Bill Buckner

#bothers #club #help #i #injury

Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

#alone #assembly #bondage #burnt #cannot

And at the time, it is funny how you can look at something and say, for example with my shoulder injury, when it first happened I said this is the worst thing that could happen to me. Why me, why now? Now I look back and say it was probably the best thing that happened to me. ↗

— Drew Brees

#best #could #example #first #for example

Quarreling over food and drink, having neither scruples nor shame, not knowing right from wrong, not trying to avoid death or injury, not fearful of greater strength or of greater numbers, greedily aware only of food and drink - such is the bravery of the dog and boar. ↗

— Xun Zi

#aware #bravery #death #dog #drink