inner wounds Quotes

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was Dostoevsky and Dickens who taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who ever had been alive. Only if we face these open wounds in ourselves can we understand them in other people.

There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.

Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.

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

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a LOT of scars.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

Do not wait for the healing to arrive. It will never come. The holes will never leave or be filled with anything at all. But holes are interesting things.

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

I had learned that there were substitutes for a mother who couldn't be a mother. You could find love with other people. You could find it in places you weren't even looking. But the original wound would never heal. I would carry it with me forever, and so would Tara. That was the trick . . . accepting it, going on with your life, knowing it was part of you.

We all have scars [...] Better by far for them to be worn on the outside.

The thing about wounded people is wounded people are scared that those wounds are going to end up killing them. They pretend like they're not there, or they ignore them.

The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor.

I don't believe you ever get closure on anything. Things leave a permanent mark on you.

Let Jesus preach to you, and and let Jesus heal you. We are all wounded. Everyone.

No matter where you are, the root of you is designed from a young age. So if my confidence was taken as a child, you can gain back a lot of the confidence, but that root of the cavity will still be there.

I have some scars... lots of internal ones. But they're all scabbed over.

I think we're all wounded, but some of us, when we experience the healing of those wounds, that they scar and scab over.

It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.

I write and speak about personal and spiritual growth. One week I write about illness and another week I speak about relationships and another week I write about work and money and another week I speak to people with obesity issues. I write about whatever wounds seem to cry out for more enlightened solutions, and the love that heals them all.

Many women are so wounded that they can't love another person.

A decade of cutting away dead flesh, cauterizing old scars ripped open over and over and still it is not enough.

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.

Real sorrow is almost as difficult to discover as real poverty. An instinctive delicacy hides the rays of the one and the wounds of the other.

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