#wounds

You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex, but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them ↗

— Iyanla Vanzant

#the-past #wounds #food

They say that time heals all wounds. I've never believed that. Time may dampen the severity of a wound, but no true wound is ever completely healed. A scar lasts forever no matter how much Mederma you lather on it. The memory of a tattoo will be there long after you've had it burnt off. ↗

— Jamie Schoffman

#jamie-schoffman #not-all-out-of-love #wounds #inspirational

We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that. ↗

— Ian St. John

#certain #certain degree #degree #did #dinner

Wit in women is apt to have bad consequences; like a sword without a scabbard, it wounds the wearer and provokes assailants. ↗

— Elizabeth Montagu

#bad #consequences #like #provokes #sword

I’d have much rather gotten dragged into someone else’s fight than face what was waiting for me. Other people’s emotional pain, no matter how painful, is so much less painful than your own. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#dreams

A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#green #his #keeps #man #own

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#green #heal #his #keeps #man

God's wounds cure, sin's kisses kill. ↗

— William Gurnall

#god #kill #kisses #sin #wounds

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#advice #ask #chosen #cures #find

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason. ↗

— Novalis

#heals #inflicted #reason #wounds