Wound Quotes
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There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come.
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Instead of getting wound up, simply relax your expectations of your family, friends, business associates...and yourself.
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But I always wound up being the damn John, when I wanted to be the Paul.
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I thought of what my father had told me one summer day. I’d fallen down, and my knee was all scraped up and bleeding. We sat on the back porch, and he cleaned my wound and put a Band-Aid on it. The sky had cleared after a summer storm. I’d been crying, and he tried to get me to smile. “Your eyes are the color of sky. Did you know that?” I don’t know why I remembered this. Maybe it was because I knew he was telling me he loved me.
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It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way, blunts the edges ever so slightly.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.
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Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
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It harms a man more to wound his heart than to hurt his body.
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I think you learn to live with the pain of miscarrying. The open wound heals and becomes a scar. Not as raw, but always there. A part of you- your heart.
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Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.
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What a terrible thing it is to wound someone you really care for and to do it so unconsciously.
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For every wound, the ointment of time.
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No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
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The face of the night will be an old wound that reopens each evening, impassive and living. The distant silence will ache like a soul, mute, in the dark. We'll speak to the night as it's whispering softly.
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On speaking of family secrets. I don't know how you heal a wound and not let it get some air.
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If I have left a wound inside you, it is not just your wound but mine as well.
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God who gives the wound gives the salve.
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How sweet, the presence of Jesus to the longing, harassed soul! It is instant peace, and balm to every wound.
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I may have spent the morning tracking down a lunatic thanks to a holographic image of my dad, hallucinated, and wound up in a potential terrorist’s office where I had a super weird conversation, but at least pastizzi are normal.
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You can't just wound the bear and run. He'll come after you.
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His death brings new experience to my life - that of a wound that will not heal.
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Art is a wound turned into light.
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Then she took my hand and touched it to the wound beside her eye. I caressed the half-inch scar. As I did so, the waves of her consciousness pulsed through my fingertips and into me - a delicate resonance of longing. Probably someone should take this girl in his arms and hold her tight, I thought. Probably someone other than me. Someone qualified to give her something. "Goodbye, Mr. Wind-Up Bird. See you again sometime.
