#wound

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

I'm pretty upfront about my love and admiration for the military. One of the perks of making movies is that you get to sort of follow your own passions, and I believe quite passionately that we don't pay enough attention and respect to our veterans. Not just our wounded veterans, but all veterans. ↗

— Peter Berg

#admiration #attention #believe #enough #follow

Scars are but evidence of life," Coquette said. "Evidence of choices to be learned from...evidence of wounds...wounds inflicted of mistakes...wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We likewise choose to see them, that we may not make the same mistakes again. ↗

— Marcia Lynn McClure

#beauty #healing #mistakes #romance #scars

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

If I hadn't become a golfer, I doubt I'd be wealthy, because I don't have the sort of ego that drives a person all day long. I might have wound up driving a tractor. ↗

— Fuzzy Zoeller

#because #become #day #doubt #drives

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds. ↗

— Cheryl Strayed

#love #time #wounds #life

If you and I are having a single thought of violence or hatred against anyone in the world at this moment, we are contributing to the wounding of the world. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#anyone #contributing #hatred #having #i