Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.
That was the dirty secret associated with her past. Not that she'd been abused but that somehow she felt that she deserved it because she'd let it happen. Even now, it shamed her, and there were times...
Some people grow up with issues because they did not have their parents around growing up, many others have issues because their parents were around growing up
You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile.
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not towisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Markings in dry clay disappearOnly when the clay is soft again.Scars upon the self disappearOnly when one becomes soft within.
Scars are an affirmation of living.
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.
Never again will I justify the scars just because I loved the person holding the knife.
Pain whispersthrough silent wordsentombed in scarsshyly palpablein fleeting glimpsesbriefly allowed
The marks humans leave are too often scars. You build a hideous minimall or start a coup or try to become a rockstar and you think, They'll remember me now, but (a) they don't remember you, and (b) al...
The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
The first step to healing is to make peace with your scars
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite.
Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently.
In return, Giovanni told me that empathizing Italians say L'ho provato sulla mia pelle, which means 'I have experienced that on my own skin.' Meaning, I have also been burned or scarred in this way, a...
We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable.
He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...