Daniel Alarcon Quotes

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.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Time may heal all wounds, but it does not erase the scars.

I know," she said, guessing my thoughts. "I know exactly how you feel." "Does it get easier?" I asked. Unlike Sydney, Olena had an answer. "Yes. But you'll never be the same.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

I learned that what happened to me did not have to define who I was. My past could not control my future unless I allowed it to.

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them

A traumatic event doesn't doom us to suffer indefinitely. Instead, we can use it as a springboard to unleash our best qualities and lead happier lives.

You know that you've healed an issue when you can talk about it and you're not weeping, when you can speak to it and identify the lesson. You know that you've healed an issue when, having gone through that, has a benefit that you live today.

Having had cancer, one important thing to know is you're still the same person at the end. You're stripped down to near zero. But most people come out the other end feeling more like themselves than ever before.

When you come from so many damaged places you don't ever want to spiral back there, so you gotta continue to check yourself.

Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

Even though I wish I had a better childhood, I wouldn't trade it, because it made me who I am today. I still respect the people that hurt me.

Experiences don't make us damaged goods; it's what we do with those experiences that matters.

Have you recently been through a challenge, disappointment, break up or disloyalty with somebody in your life? If so, it's important after you've been hurt, to take some time to think like a lion tamer about your pain, so you can tame the possibility of more negativity coming back to bite you again!

Don't let something hurtful in your past hold you back from what you want to do. Be brave.

I am so happy I have been able to channel all the things that I went through when I was younger and make them into something positive.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.

Scars are memory. Like sutures. They stitch the past to me.

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.