Ziad K. Abdelnour Quotes
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Turn your wounds into wisdom.
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Time washes clean, love's wounds unseen.
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My wounds, ... It was like a cortisone to heal these wounds. I rubbed it on every night and it helped me.
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Rather than distance ourselves from the past, as the centrist amnesiacs would counsel, perhaps we should finally peel back the scabs and take a closer look at why all the wounds haven't healed.
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You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.
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When I go up there, which is my intention, the Big Judge will say to me, Where are your wounds? and if I say I haven’t any, he will say, Was there nothing to fight for? I couldn’t face that question. (Ah, But Your Land Is Beautiful)
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You have the power to tear me to pieces, to wound me so deep and true that I‘ll never recover.
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You just need to be a flea against injustice. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the biggest nation.
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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.
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We want spiritual principles to be more than beautiful abstractions; we want them to actually transform our lives.
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People want the nation to transform in the same way they want their own lives to transform. If you're interested in transforming your life, you can't just transform some things. You can't try to fix some things, but sweep other things under the rug because it's too hard to face them. And the same is true for a nation.
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Enlightenment doesn't mean we were never wounded; it means we've found a way to evolve beyond our wounds. Enlightenment isn't idealistic; it's practical. What's idealistic is thinking we can live from our wounds, stay in our weakness, and ever transform the world.
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Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.
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Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.
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Wounds are an essential part of life, and until you are wounded in some way, you cannot become a man.
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Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial influences.
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All would have transformed us if we had the courage to be what we are.
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I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world
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No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?
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The half moon on the bank of the river's devotion. That's the stab wound, born from the killer emotion
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Anything that can be perfect is very damaging for my psyche.
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Why, I wonder, do people who at one time or another have all been young themselves, and who ought therefore to know better, generalize so suavely and so mendaciously about the golden hours of youth-that period of life when every sorrow seems permanent, and every setback insuperable?
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Never allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
