Injury Quotes - Page 15

• ... this idea, that humans are essentially weak creatures, is actually deeply woven into a lot of the ways in which humans think about our bodies.

  Daniel Lieberman

  Pain, Thinking, Ideas

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• Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

  Douglas Coupland

  Pain, Feel Good, Special

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• Every man is of importance to himself, and, therefore, in his own opinion, to others; and, supposing the world already acquainted with his pleasures and his pains, is perhaps the first to publish injuries or misfortunes which had never been known unless related by himself, and at which those that hear them will only laugh, for no man sympathises with the sorrows of vanity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Pain, Writing, Men

  Samuel Johnson (1810). “The works of the English poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: including the series edited with prefaces, biographical and critical”, p.78

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• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Two

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• The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition enjoy their own acts of beneficence equally with those to whom they are done, so there are scarce any natures so entirely diabolical as to be capable of doing injuries without paying themselves some pangs for the ruin which they bring on their fellow-creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Believe, Men, Evil

  Henry Fielding (1975). “The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling”, p.765, Wesleyan University Press

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• An injury may prove a blessing.

  Ovid

  Blessing, May, Prove

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• Acne is a bigger problem than injuries.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Acne

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• In primitive society, where uniformity of occupation is the rule, and the distribution of the community into various classes of workers has hardly begun, every man is more or less his own magician; he practices charms and incantations for his own good and the injury of his enemies.

  James G. Frazer

  Men, Practice, Class

  "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion". Book by James G. Frazer, 1890.

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• We do injury to a child if we bring it up in a narrow Christianity, which prevents it from ever becoming capable of perceiving that there are treasures of purest gold to be found in non-Christian civilizations. Laical education does an even greater injury to children. It covers up those treasures, and those of Christianity as well.

  Simone Weil

  Christian, Children, Civilization

  Simone Weil (2003). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.91, Routledge

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• The man who pardons easily courts injury.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, He Man, Pardon

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• The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

  Teresa of Avila

  Adversity, Forgiving, Saint

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• Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

  Herodotus

  Party, Calumny Is, Two

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• I always train heavy and it worked well for me. I always train heavy and put on size for a competition. Most people would be worried about an injury but if you're gonna worry about it so much, it's gonna happen anyway.

  Ronnie Coleman

  People, Worry, Competition

  Interview with Wee Kiat, fabodylous.com. 2012.

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• There are some women in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else. Love is scarcely felt before duty rushes to encase it, anger impossible because one must always be calm and see both sides, pity evaporates in expedients, even grief is felt as a sort of bruised sense of injury, a resentment that one should have grief forced upon one when one has always acted for the best.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Grief, Love Is, Should Have

  Sylvia Townsend Warner (2011). “Selected Stories”, p.246, Hachette UK

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• The essence of justice is mercy. Making a child suffer for wrong-doing is merciful to the child. There is no mercy in letting the child have its own will, plunging headlong to destruction with the bits in its mouth. There is no mercy to society nor to the criminal if the wrong is not repressed and the right vindicated. We injure the culprit who comes up to take his proper doom at the bar of justice, if we do not make him feel that he has done a wrong thing. We may deliver his body from the prison, but not at the expense of justice nor to his own injury.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Children, Essence, Justice

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• Therefore if mine enemy hunger, let me feed him; if he thirst, let me give him drink. Now in order to do this, (1) We must see good in that, in which other men can see none. (2) We must pass by those injuries that other men would revenge. (3) We must show we have grace, and that we are made to bear what other men are not acquainted with. (4) Many of our graces are kept alive, by those very things that are the death of other men's souls.... The devil, (they say) is good when he is pleased; but Christ and His saints, when displeased.

  John Bunyan

  Revenge, Men, Order

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• I saw no poor men, except a few intemperate ones. I saw some very poor women; but God and man know that the time has not come for women to make their injuries even heard of.

  Harriet Martineau

  Men, Saws, Discrimination

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.8

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• Hath any wronged thee? be bravely revenged; slight it, and the work is begun; forgive it, and it is finished; he is below himself that is not above an injury.

  Francis Quarles

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Thee

  Francis Quarles (1844). “Enchiridion Institutions, Essays and Maxims, political, moral & divine. Divided into four centuries. By Francis Quarles”, p.49

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• God will forgive you if you forgive others. Forgiving those who cause offence or injury is often exceedingly difficult. And yet, forgiveness is one of the most beautiful and important teachings of Jesus Christ. It is central to the gospel because, without it, you can't go to heaven.

  Patrick Madrid

  Beautiful, Jesus, Teaching

  Patrick Madrid (2012). “A Year with the Bible: Scriptural Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.21, TAN Books

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• One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.

  Patricia Wentworth

  Community, Failing, Members

  Patricia Wentworth (2006). “Poison in the Pen”, p.93, Hachette UK

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• [Book's subtitle:] Designed as a beacon of light to guide women to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but which may be read by members of the sterner sect, without injury to themselves or the book.

  Marietta Holley

  Book, Pursuit Of Happiness, Light

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• What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury.

  George Eliot

  Sweet, Ties, Lasts

  George Eliot (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)”, p.6886, Delphi Classics

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• I'm pretty cautious and not very athletic, so I've only had really dumb injuries, like sprained ankles and allergic reactions. I did have to go to the hospital after slicing my finger while trying to cut a Kaiser roll in half.

  Mara Wilson

  Cutting, Athletic, Dumb

  "Mara Wilson: Hollywood child star turned New York storyteller". Interview with Katie Rogers, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2013.

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• hatred of oppression seems to me so blended with hatred of the oppressor that I cannot separate them. I feel that no other injury could be so hard to bear, so very very hard to forgive, as that inflicted by cruel oppression and prejudice.

  Charlotte Forten Grimke

  Racism, Hatred, Forgiving

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• Rebuilding us. Isn't that what the spirit requires, when we climb over the wreckage of our lives, sometimes, we go on to make our lives our own affirmation? We are perfect expressions of perfect Love, here and now. There is no permanent injury.

  Richard Bach

  Expression, Perfect, Rebuilding

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