Old Wounds Quotes

• Turn your wounds into wisdom.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Oprah Winfrey (2017). “The Wisdom of Sundays: Life-Changing Insights and Inspirational Conversations”, p.120, Pan Macmillan

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  The soldier, above all other people, prays for peace, for he must suffer and bear the deepest wounds and scars of war.

  Douglas MacArthur

  Peace, Military, War

  "Duty, Honor, Country: A Pictorial Autobiography".

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• Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.

  George R. R. Martin

  Pain, Being Hurt, Broken

  George R. R. Martin (2011). “A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows”, p.50, Bantam

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• 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

  Sex, Pain, Memories

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• Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, Heal, Your Past

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• We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.

  T. D. Jakes

  Forgiveness, God, Nursing

  T.D. Jakes (2013). “Let It Go: Forgive So You Can Be Forgiven”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people. But until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Past, People, Way

  Iyanla Vanzant (1995). “Interiors: A Black Woman's Healing--in Progress”, Writers & Readers

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Inspiring

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• 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

  Pain, Memories, Past

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• Life and love go on, let the music play.

  Johnny Cash

  Life And Love, Play, Goes On

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• Don't re-open old wounds in order to examine their origins. Leave them healed.

  Richard Bandler

  Order, Healed, Wounds

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• Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don't know how to replenish its source.

  Anais Nin

  Sad, Broken Heart, Heartbreak

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• For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Heart, Practice, Two

  Catherynne M. Valente (2014). “The Fairyland Series”, p.517, Macmillan

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• It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

  Willa Cather

  Real, Book, Writing

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• The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

  Pope Francis

  Healing, Mean, Justice

  "Pope says Sri Lanka should seek truth over civil war" by Philip Pullella, Frank Jack Daniel, www.reuters.com. January 13, 2015.

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• I've been going through some personal things that have stirred up a lot of old wounds.

  Bradford Cox

  Personal Things, Wounds

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.

  Cesare Pavese

  Dark, Night, Silence

  Cesare Pavese, Geoffrey Brock (2002). “Disaffections: complete poems 1930-1950”, Copper Canyon Pr

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• Old secrets are like old wounds; they fester.

  Paul Christopher

  Secret, Wounds

  Paul Christopher (2006). “The Lucifer Gospel”, p.87, Penguin

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• Nothing goes to waste, you put it all to use, the old wounds and long-ago slights become the stuff of competitive energy.

  Lance Armstrong

  Long Ago, Energy, Use

  Lance Armstrong (2012). “It's Not About The Bike: My Journey Back to Life”, p.17, Random House

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• The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
  Life and love go on, let the music play.

  Johnny Cash

  Life And Love, Past, Play

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• It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.

  Peter Robinson

  Regret, Pain, Loss

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• Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention.

  Jeremy Collier

  Pain, Fighting, Men

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.106

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• Oblivion cures the old wounds.

  Dejan Stojanovic

  Oblivion, Cures, Wounds

  "Memory and Oblivion". Poem by Dejan Stojanovic,

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• Through me the energy policy of the whole Common Market is being held up. Without opening old wounds, it pleases me no end.

  Tony Benn

  Please Me, Energy, Common

  "Mr Benn delays EEC meeting". "The Times" Newspaper, December 13, 1975.

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• I used the N-word instead of calling him Trevor. I used it just not thinking... I told Trev this is an old wound with me. I grew up with it. I am sorry as anybody that it stuck with me.

  John Vanbiesbrouck

  Sorry, Thinking, Nhl

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