#ma

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#pain #trauma #hurt

To hurt is as human as to breathe. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#hurt #hurt

Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#humanity #self-worth #social-mores #hurt

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is very tired, hurt and bewildered. ↗

— Clara Bow

#sex-symbol #hurt

You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself. ↗

— Mitch Albom

#self-acceptance #woman

It isn't all over; everything has not been invented; the human adventure is just beginning. ↗

— Gene Roddenberry

#innovation #optimism #optimism

He shakes his head with a slow smile. You'd better be right. If the phone rings, I'm unpluggining it, I swear to God-“ You'd do that to your five-year-old sister?“ I gasp in mock outrage. For one whole night alone? Jesus, Maya, I'd sell her to the gypsies! ↗

— Tabitha Suzuma

#maya #jesus

I ask you to judge me by the enemies I have made. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#i #judge #judge me #made #me

I fix the cramped, lined pages with my curious stare. How do you come to exist? ↗

— Kiera Woodhull

#imagination #insomnia #writer #writing #dreams

Sometimes being a bitch is all a woman's got to hold on to. ↗

— Stephen King

#woman