Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other.
Anger simply shows that something in you is hurt, some wound is there.
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.
I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what are we reading it for?
O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!
Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for, strive for, wound everything around you.
That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
Hope is what happens when a wound starts to heal; Whether skin-deep or soul-deep, you begin to feel real.
Well, it looks like John Boehner will be the new Speaker of the House. He is the son of a bartender, one of 12 children. He grew up in a two room home with just one bathroom, worked his way through school, became the first person in his family to graduate from college. And, sadly, fell in with the wrong crowd and wound up in Congress.
God's light is real, it is available to all. It has the power to soften the sting of the deepest wound.
No wound is worse than counterfeited love.
My mother would take the Band-Aid off, clean the wound, and say, "Things that are covered don't heal well. " Mother was right. Things that are covered do not heal well.
All things great are wound up with all things little.
Language is a window into human nature, but it is also a fistula, an open wound through which we're exposed to an infectious world.
We should never use the truth to wound.
Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?
I much condole with you on your late loss. . . pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.
Blood of the world, time staunchless flows; The wound is mortal and is mine.
Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.
The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.