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Quotes About Wounds

Whatever goes against the Book of Law will make you feel a funny sensation in your solar plexus, and it's called fear. Breaking the rules in the Book of Law opens your emotional wounds, and your reaction is to create emotional poison. Because everything that is in the Book of Law has to be true, anything that challenges what you believe is going to make you feel unsafe.
~ Miguel Ruiz
If you can imagine this, perhaps you can understand that someone from another planet who came to visit us would have a similar experience with humans. But it isn't our skin that is full of wounds. What the visitor would discover is that the human mind is sick with a disease called fear.
~ Miguel Ruiz
terrible are the wounds of a murdered dream
~ Milan Kundera
For those that were never wounded by love, they will never be able to say: "I lived". Because they haven't.
~ Paulo Coelho
What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.
~ George Gordon Byron
the most damaging wounds are selfinflicted!
~ brian keith jackson
Fresh wounds, said Angua. But one of them did shoot one of the other in the leg by accident. I think you'd better put in your report as -self inflicted- wounds while resisting arrest, said Vimes.
~ Terry Pratchett
Mrs. Earwig said the village women know what to do," said Annagramma hopefully. "She says to trust in their peasant wisdom." "Well, Mrs. Obble was the old woman who called, and she has just got simple peasant ignorance," said Tiffany. "She puts leaf mold on wounds if you don't watch her. Look, just because a woman's got no teeth doesn't mean she's wise. It might just mean she's been stupid for a very long time.
~ Terry Pratchett
With understanding and compassion, you will be able to heal the wounds in your heart, and the wounds in the world.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
When a murderer their victim's corpse the wounds open and bleed again to show everyone who the murderer is. That means that one of you must have murdered him, doesn't it?
~ Karen Maitland
When a murderer touches their victim's corpse the wounds open and bleed again to show everyone who the murderer is. That means that one of you must have murdered him, doesn't it?
~ Karen Maitland
Just as physical wounds heal at different rates in different people, so do emotional wounds. Everyone has different needs and speeds.
~ Karen Salmansohn
Everyone has wounds as want healing. Seems like they all find me.
~ Katherine Howe
We are the many We bear luminous wounds We bear the possibility of love; also its real sweetness Its sound
~ Göran Sonnevi
Two thousand Sufi poets assembled in Baghdad last night Bullets, rockets and granades flying Allah heard only their wine voices Bursting in a fireball straight to Paradise Bombs and explosives Illuminated the shame for an instant Before sinking suddenly to earth Echoes of their words seep through wounds
~ Gabriel Rosenstock
What a funny turn of phrase, she thought. Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria. But Sadie knew it was easy to get addicted to the taste of your own carnage.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Generally, obsessively, licking her wounds. What a funny turn of phrase, she thought. Licking your wounds would only make them worse, no? The mouth was filled with so much bacteria.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
When small wounds are left untreated, they can fest and become far more serious injuries." -Mr. Kipling
~ Gabrielle Zevin
A version of this, though, is always going on from the moment two people's time and space collide: Subtle or direct, we are negotiating the private and public spheres. If the wounds are on the inside, we have some choice about what to reveal when, and to whom. If the scar is one the outside-the physical signature that announces itself with the nuance of a trumpet-people tend to think they know a great deal about you, whether they do or not.
~ Gail Caldwell
Each wound has its own time for healing...The wounds of the heart are much deeper than those of the flesh.
~ Bruce Coville
until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed.
~ Bruce D. Perry
until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself.
~ Bruce D. Perry
We must understand and heal the wounds of the past before we can move forward.
~ Bruce D. Perry
She said that until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life, through alcohol, through drugs, through sex, through overworking. You have to have the courage to pull out the wound and begin to heal yourself. This is the lesson I hope everyone carries with them from our conversation, too.
~ Bruce D. Perry