#wound

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #suffering #wounds #life

When my TV show, 'Sports Jobs with Junior Seau,' assigned me to be a 'Sports Illustrated' reporter for a weekend, I didn't realize I'd have to squeeze it in around another sports job. I had planned to retire from the NFL to enjoy the cushy lifestyle of a full-time reality TV star, but I wound up getting run over by a bull. ↗

— Junior Seau

#around #assigned #bull #enjoy #full-time

Time heals even the deepest wounds. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#time #wounds #life

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. ↗

— Paul Auster

#life

Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clothes #jace #wounds #want

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

#hurt #life-lessons #scars #wisdom #wounds

...the greatest wounds, we hide inside ourselves where they never show. ↗

— From Dream Away song from The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing

#hidden-pain #love-hurts #dreams

The loss of a friend is like that of a limb; time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. ↗

— Robert Southey

#cannot #friend #heal #like #limb

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds. ↗

— Allen Boyd

#bitterness #hard #heal #lot #out

On the mountains mistakes are fatal. In politics, mistakes are wounding emotionally, but you recover. Personally, wilderness helps me get back in touch with natural rhythms, helps me reflect and, in the process, restore my creativity. ↗

— Mark Udall

#creativity #emotionally #fatal #get #helps