#wounds

The sword the body wounds, sharp words the mind. ↗

— Menander

#mind #sharp #sword #words #wounds

Yes, we love peace, but we are not willing to take wounds for it, as we are for war. ↗

— John Andrew Holmes

#love #take #war #willing #wounds

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#despise #fatigue #great #habit #pain

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

I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#beautiful #been #coming #how #i

I have these accidents, these mistakes, these self-inflicted wounds, and then I tear my head to shreds about it for days. ↗

— John Mayer

#accidents #days #head #i #mistakes

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well. ↗

— John Milton

#heal #his #otherwise #own #revenge

War has always been the grand sagacity of every spirit which has grown too inward and too profound; its curative power lies even in the wounds one receives. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#been #curative #even #every #grand

America has also forever lost the service of thousands of good soldiers who are now disabled as a result of battle wounds in Iraq. Many others will need mental and emotional rehabilitation before they can return to normal life. ↗

— John Olver

#america #battle #before #disabled #emotional

The city's contradictions and frailties drive me to the church. The church, in turn, binds my wounds and soothes my troubled heart, and sends me right back out into the city again. ↗

— Steve Ross

#back #binds #church #city #contradictions