#wound

Is this the part where you start tearing off strips of your shirt to bind my wounds?" "If you wanted me to rip my clothes off, you should have just asked. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#clothes #jace #wounds #want

Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109) ↗

— Jean-Yves Leloup

#emotional-wounds #happiness #hardships #self-image #suffering

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#scars #wounds #regret

...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

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

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

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation. ↗

— Robert Vaughn

#been #believe #boy #certain #could

In fact, I think that our society expects schools to get students to the point where they do things only for outside rewards. People who perform tasks for their internal reasons are hard to control. Now, I don't think teachers get up in the morning and say to themselves, 'I', going to go to school today and take away all those young people's internal motivations' ...but that's exactly what often happens. ↗

— Kirsten Olson

#schools #wounded-by-school #education

Someone earlier made a remark about losing 500 soldiers and 2,200 wounded in Iraq. Those soldiers were sent there by the vote of Sen. Lieberman, Sen. Edwards and Sen. Kerry. I think that is a serious matter. ↗

— Howard Dean

#earlier #edwards #i #i think #iraq

It was full of wounding remarks rather brilliantly said, perhaps said for the sheer virtuosity of giving pain neatly. Each of its phrases found its way through the eyes of the Marquesa, then, carefully wrapped in understanding and forgiveness, it sank into her heart. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#wounding #writing #forgiveness