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• I said: what about my eyes?
  God said: Keep them on the road.
  I said: what about my passion?
  God said: Keep it burning.
  I said: what about my heart?
  God said: Tell me what you hold inside it?
  I said: pain and sorrow?
  He said: Stay with it. The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

  Rumi

  Pain, Eye, Passion

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• It is the loss of the feminine counterpart of God that causes the wound that never heals.

  Margaret Starbird

  Loss, Causes, Feminine

  Margaret Starbird (1993). “The Woman with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• But the best argument of all [for evangelism] is to be found in the wounds of Jesus. You want to honor Him, you desire to put many crowns upon His head, and this you can best do by winning souls for Him. These are the spoils that He covets, these are the trophies for which He fights, these are the jewels that shall be His best adornment.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Jesus, Fighting, Winning

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• The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Faithful, Church

  Pope Francis (2017). “The Works of Mercy”, p.15, Orbis Books

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• No eye to watch, and no tongue to wound us, All earth forgot, and all heaven around us.

  Charles Lamb

  Eye, Heaven, Watches

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• I tend to the wound so often, it never heals.

  Warsan Shire

  Heal

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• Everyone alive has suffered. It is the wisdom gained from our wounds and from our own experiences of suffering that makes us able to heal. Becoming expert has turned out to be less important than remembering and trusting the wholeness in myself and everyone else. Expertise cures, but wounded people can best be healed by other wounded people. Only other wounded people can understand what is needed, for the healing of suffering is compassion, not expertise.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Healing, Compassion, People

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.158, Penguin

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• The bonus is really one of the great give-aways in business enterprise. It is the annual salve applied to the conscience of the rich and the wounds of the poor.

  E. B. White

  Giving, Bonus, Rich

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• God who gives the wound gives the salve.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  God, Giving

  Miguel de Cervantes, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (2006). “Don Quixote: Easyread Large Edition”, p.310, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay;
  Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way
  Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side,
  The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

  William Butler Yeats

  Jesus, Flower, Passion

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

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• It is hard to find someone who will give your children a feeling of security while it lasts and not wound them too much when it isfinished, who will treat those children as if they were her own, but knows--and never forgets--that they are yours.

  Anna Quindlen

  Children, Giving, Feelings

  Anna Quindlen (2010). “Living Out Loud”, p.90, Ballantine Books

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• The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain.

  Winston Churchill

  Loss, Feelings, Finals

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Their Finest Hour”, p.87, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Satire should, like a polished razor keen, Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Razors, Satire, Should

  Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “Verses Addressed To The Imitator Of The First Satire Of The Second Book Of Horace”

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• God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Men, Use

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• He does me double wrong
  That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.

  William Shakespeare

  Doe, Tongue, Flattery

  William Shakespeare, Charles R. Forker (2002). “King Richard II: Third Series”, p.335, Cengage Learning EMEA

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• I measure my life in sentences pressed out, line by line, like the lustrous ooze on the underside of the snail, the snail's secret open seam, its wound, leaking attar.

  Cynthia Ozick

  Writing, Secret, Lines

  Cynthia Ozick (1987). “The Messiah of Stockholm: a novel”, Alfred A. Knopf

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• I ascend from darkness
  And depart on the winds of space for I know not where;
  My watch is wound, a key is in my pocket,
  And the sky is darkened as I descend the stair.

  Conrad Aiken

  Morning, Keys, Wind

  Conrad Aiken (1961). “Selected Poems”, p.23, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• First try all other means, but if the wound
  Heal not, then use the knife, lest to the clean
  From the diseased the canker spread.

  Ovid

  Mean, Knives, Trying

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• This surface good-nature which captivates a new acquaintance and is no bar to treachery, which knows no scruple and is never at fault for an excuse, which makes an outcry at the wound which it condones, is one of the most distinctive features of the journalist. This camaraderie (the word is a stroke of genius) corrodes the noblest minds; it eats into their pride like rust, kills the germ of great deeds, and lends a sanction to moral cowardice.

  Honore de Balzac

  Work, Pride, Mind

  "A Daughter of Eve". Book by Honoré de Balzac, 1839.

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• Sometimes we push ourselves. We take a workout and we use it as a way to crack open our shell, let the pain rush in and push out the stagnant wounds of the heart. Sometimes a workout sets you free.

  Lauren Fleshman

  Workout, Pain, Heart

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• " ... It is not my desire to wound the feelings of any person with whom I am connected in family bonds. I may be a hypocrite," said Mr. Pecksniff, cuttingly, "but I am not a brute."

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Hypocrite

  Charles Dickens (1867). “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.75

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• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

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• Old or new, the only sign I always try to rid my books of (usually with little success) is the price-sticker that malignant booksellers attach to the backs. These evil white scabs rip off with difficulty, leaving leprous wounds and traces of slime to which adhere the dust and fluff of ages, making me wish for a special gummy hell to which the inventor of these stickers would be condemned.

  Alberto Manguel

  Rip, Book, White

  Alberto Manguel (2011). “The Library at Night”, p.22, Vintage Canada

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• She was too intent upon her work, and too earnest in what she said, and too composed and quiet altogether, to be on the watch for any look he might direct towards her in reply; so the shaft of his ungrateful glance fell harmless, and did not wound her.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Interesting, Ungrateful

  Charles Dickens (1867). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.230

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• What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, "Why don't you go with me?" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, "Yeah, they need me here." I wound up at Universal as a contract player.

  Clint Eastwood

  Girl, Motivation, Player

  "Clint Eastwood: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2008.

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