#wounds

In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others. ↗

— Brennan Manning

#healing #light #spiritual-life #wounds #life

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

Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man. ↗

— Paul Auster

#life

Nothing else wounds so deeply and irreparably. Nothing else robs us of hope so much as being unloved by one we love ↗

— Clive Barker

#absolute-midnight #clive-barker #hate #hurt #love

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

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