Wounds Quotes - Page 26

• When we come to that compassionate awareness that is not afraid of the fear, that can embrace the fear, we are able to heal the wounds of the child and the adult and begin to live the lives we've always wanted to live.

  Cheri Huber

  Children, Inspiration, Bravery

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• ...once again we face a paradox, for it appears that softening your heart and gently tending its wounds will protect you from evil. Building a fortress and defending yourself behind it will only make you more vulnerable. Healing your own heart is the single most powerful thing you can do to change the world. Your own transformation will enable you to withdraw so completely from evil that you contribute to it by not one word, one thought, or one breath. This healing process is like recovering your soul.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Healing, Heart

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• My best friend growing up really put the bug in my ear about acting. We created this one hour-and-a-half improv play when we were 10 or 11 and performed it at the library. We just played off each other so well and had the best time doing it and the funniest part was, we wound up having packed houses, other people loved it too.

  Katherine Moennig

  Funny, Friendship, Growing Up

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• We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

  Bo Sanchez

  Get Well, Healing, Humility

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• How many thorns of human nature - hard, sharp, lifeless protuberances that tear and wound us, narrow prejudices, bristling conceits that repel and disgust us - are arrested developments, calcified tendencies, buds of promise that should have lifted a branch up into the sunny day with fruit; and flowers to delight the heart of men, but now all grown hard, petrified, for want of culture and a congenial soil and climate.

  John Burroughs

  Flower, Heart, Men

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• AugustineThe wounds of a friend are better than the kisses of an enemy. To love with sternness is better than to deceive with gentleness.... In Luke [14:23] it is written: "Compel people to come in!" By threats of the wrath of God, the Father draws souls to his Son.

  Saint Augustine

  Father, Son, Kissing

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• If you fight sex, sex becomes the center. Then, continuously, you are engaged in it, occupied with it. It becomes like a wound. And wherever you look, that wound immediately projects, and whatsoever you see becomes sexual.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Fighting, Looks

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• By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart.

  Phillip Moffitt

  Success, Mother, Teacher

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• A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.

  David Richo

  Healing, Grieving, Self

  David Richo (2002). “How to Be an Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving”, p.252, Shambhala Publications

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• In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

  David Richo

  Hero, Mean, Loss

  David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration”, p.17, Paulist Press

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• Father, One day, a woman walked into my life. I hurt her deeply with the harshest words possible. I pushed her away as much as I could. But, she still came back to me. She is so much like me; I look at myself often when I look at her. She has the physical wounds that I have. The tears that fill my brain are flowing through her heart as well. I gave her those wounds. I made her cry. I should not have met her. I should not have allowed her to come into the life of a guy like me. Father, I'm regretting it. This is the first time... that I have ever regretted anything in my life.

  Ma-Roo

  Hurt, Regret, Drama

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• We don't want to be wounds ("No, you're the wound!") but we should be allowed to have them, to speak about having them, to be something more than just another girl who has one. We should be able to do these things without failing the feminism of our mothers, and we should be able to represent women who hurt without walking backward into a voyeuristic rehashing of the old cultural models.

  Leslie Jamison

  Girl, Mother, Hurt

  Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.174, Granta Books

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• There is something about losing your mother that is permanent and inexpressable - a wound that will never quite heal.

  Susan Wiggs

  Mother, Loss, Never Quit

  Susan Wiggs (2011). “The Goodbye Quilt”, p.162, MIRA

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• Grace flows through wounds.

  Christopher West

  Faith, Inspiration, Catholic

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• The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them

  Publilius Syrus

  Love, Family, Happiness

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• A single girl who needs nobody makes people uncomfortable, and my mom is right in this, appearance is everything, and appearing to have no one is like swimming alone in the middle of the ocean with a flesh wound.

  Elissa Schappell

  Girl, Mom, Ocean

  Elissa Schappell (2012). “Blueprints for Building Better Girls: Fiction”, p.9, Simon and Schuster

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• Doctrine is to be the balm of a healing experience of God, not a theological scalpel to wound and exclude people.

  Diana Butler Bass

  Healing, People, Doctrine

  "Moving Beyond Tribal Religion" by Ryan Thomas Neace, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 1, 2014.

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• Strange, the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moment's unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

  Donna Woolfolk Cross

  Pain, Heart, Loss

  "Pope Joan". Book by Donna Woolfolk Cross, 1996.

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• If you take a shot at someone, you keep firing until they can no longer return fire. Wound them, and you have an angry enemy who knows your position.

  Karen Traviss

  Fire, Enemy, Return

  Karen Traviss (2008). “Sacrifice: Star Wars Legends (Legacy of the Force)”, p.135, Del Rey

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• There have been meetings of only a moment which have left impressions for life ...for eternity. No one can understand that mysterious thing we call 'influence' ...yet everyone of us continually exerts influence, either to heal, to bless, to leave marks of beauty; or to wound, to hurt, to poison, to stain other lives.

  J.B. Miller

  Leadership, Hurt, Mysterious Things

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• From every wound there is a scar, and every scar tells a story. A story that says, "I survived."

  Craig Scott

  Life, Wounds And Scars, Domestic Violence

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• And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, "I'm sorry."

  Nicholas Wolterstorff

  Sorry, Memories, Regret

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• The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest wounds, their desperation and mistrust, and their rawest emotional trigger points. Just as the sun's warmth causes clouds to arise by prompting the earth to release its moisture, so love's pure openness activates the thick clouds of our emotional wounding, the tight places where we are shut down, where we live in fear and resist love.

  John Welwood

  Fear, Emotional, Clouds

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• Suffering has no strength to wound a weary body.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Suffering

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• A warrior accepts defeat. He does not treat it as a matter of indifference, nor does he attempt to transform it into a victory. The pain of defeat is bitter to him; he suffers at indifference and becomes desperate with loneliness. After all this has passed, he licks his wounds and begins everything anew. A warrior knows that war is made of many battles: he goes on

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Pain, Loneliness

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