#wounds

There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. ↗

— Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

#pain #suffering #wounds #healing

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

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

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

— Cheryl Strayed

#love #time #wounds #life

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#aches #any #because #bitter #enough

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth. ↗

— Rebecca West

#even #having #into #likes #nobody

My early wounds were the English school system among other things. It wasn't merely the discipline, it was the ways in which boys got what was called the school spirit. ↗

— George Woodcock

#called #discipline #early #english #english school

We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting. ↗

— Mao Zedong

#continue #dead #fighting #heal #our

What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said. ↗

— Mel Gibson

#assuring #fears #had #heal #heart