#wounds

The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. ↗

— Wallace Stegner

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

The unwounded life bears no resemblance to the Rabbi. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#jesus #suffering #wounds #life

Time heals even the deepest wounds. ↗

— Sharon E. Rainey

#time #wounds #life

Everyone breaks a little sometimes. That doesn't make you weak. It makes you wounded. And I will always be there to help you heal ↗

— J. Kenner

#love #wounds #love

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

— Rebecca West

#even #having #into #likes #nobody

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories. ↗

— Charlton Heston

#comedies #histories #invariably #society #tragedies

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#charity #finish #firmness #gives #god

Analysts keep having to pick away at the scab that the patient tries to form between himself and the analyst to cover over his wounds. The analyst keeps the surface raw, so that the wound will heal properly. ↗

— Janet Malcolm

#away #between #cover #form #having

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep. ↗

— Laurence J. Peter

#details #his #seaman #sheep #shepherd

Turn your wounds into wisdom. ↗

— Oprah Winfrey

#into #turn #wounds #your