Woundedness Quotes

• We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot. I grew up and I found my purpose and it was to become a physician. My intent wasn't to save the world as much as to heal myself. Few doctors will admit this, certainly not young ones, but subconsciously, in entering the profession, we must believe that ministering to others will heal our woundedness. And it can. but it can also deepen the wound.

  Abraham Verghese

  Believe, Doctors, Physicians

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• Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

  Henri Nouwen

  Healing, People, Shame

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• God in Christ has taken into Himself the brokenness of the human condition. Hence, human woundedness, brokenness, death itself are transformed from dead ends to doorways into Life. In the divinizing humanity of Christ, bruises become balm.

  Martin Laird

  Taken, Humanity, Bruises

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• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded.

  M. Scott Peck

  Strange, Should, Feels

  M. Scott Peck (2010). “The Different Drum: Community Making and Peace”, p.69, Simon and Schuster

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• How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

  M. Scott Peck

  Community, Important, Weakness

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• I had lots of hurt and lots of pain, lots of woundedness, bruises, broken heartedness in my life. I was abused sexually by my father, abused mentally, emotionally. My mom didn't know what to do about it, and she was being hurt in the process. So she just didn't deal with it. And I can guarantee you, just because you don't deal with something, that doesn't make it go away.

  Joyce Meyer

  Mom, Hurt, Pain

  "The Larry King Live Show", edition.cnn.com. May 19, 2005.

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• The wounded recognized the wounded.

  Nora Roberts

  Recognition, Similarity, Recognizing

  Nora Roberts (2006). “The Quinn Brothers: 2-in-1”, p.309, Penguin

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• I wonder if any of them can tell from just looking at me that all I am is the sum total of my pain, a raw woundedness so extreme that it might be terminal. It might be terminal velocity, the speed of the sound of a girl falling down to a place from where she can't be retrieved. What if I am stuck down here for good?

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Love, Girl, Pain

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.214, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

  Richard Rohr

  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

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• Life is as complex as we are. Sometimes our vulnerability is our strength, our fear develops our courage, and our woundedness is the road to our integrity. It is not an either/or world.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Integrity, World, Sometimes

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.47, Penguin

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• The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals.

  Carl Jung

  Doctors, Physicians, Heal

  Carl Gustav Jung (1973). “Memories, dreams, reflections”, Random House Inc

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• In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Source, Source Of Life

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• Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

  Aberjhani

  Silence, Grace, Mercy

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.71, Lulu.com

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• Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.

  Anne Lamott

  Believe, Struggle, Recovery

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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• The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others.

  Henri Nouwen

  Service To Others, Wounds

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• Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is
  given to us.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Past, Giving

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

  Anne Lamott

  Jealousy, Weakness, Ugly

  Anne Lamott (2008). “Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith”, p.86, Penguin

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• I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.

  Caity Lotz

  Character, Emotional, Ideas

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• Henry closed his eyes and imagined the sweet petulant woundedness with which she had stared at him on the beach. He felt a little proud that she could love him.

  Anna Godbersen

  Beach, Sweet, Eye

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