Henri Nouwen
Theologian, Author
"The main question is not, how can we hide our wounds...but how can we put our woundedness in service to others."
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Wounds
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"God enters through the wound."
Paulo Coelho
Writer
"Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not."
Sophocles
Playwright, Philosopher
"What greater wound is there than a false friend?"
Pete Wilson
Politician
"Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds."
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"My love runs deeper than the wounds."
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"sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it"
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"The wounds received in battle bestow honor, they do not take it away."
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"Wounds cannot be cured without searching."
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"An artist wears his work in place of wounds."
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"Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself."
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"We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting."
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"That which makes the vanity of others unbearable to us is that which wounds our own."
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"So well thy words become thee as thy wounds."
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"The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure."
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"God who gives the wound gives the salve."
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"God who sends the wound sends the medicine."
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"You are the Soul and the medicine for what wounds the Soul."
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"Your heart is greater than your wounds."
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"the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is."
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"Who combats with a brother, wounds himself."
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"We can rarely tell others what we really think about them--not just because it would so wound them, but also because it would so wound ourselves."
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"Who better to so softly bind the wound of one, than she who has suffered the wound herself."
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"Time wounds all heals."
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"No wound is worse than counterfeited love."
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