A Quote by Jessamyn West
A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.
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I've been very fortunate with injuries: I've had the odd broken bone in my back; when I was starting out here in England, I cracked a few ribs, and I've broken a bone in my hand.
When we scratch the wound and give into our addictions we do not allow the wound to heal.
A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.
A shaman is someone who has a wound that will not heal. He sits by the side of the road with his open wound exposed.
The wound that's made by fire will heal,
But the wound that's made by tongue will never heal.
Fear and lies fester in darkness. The truth may wound, but it cuts clean.
If you've got a wound, and it's just about to heal up, and it's got a nice scab on it, and you think in two or three days, that's gonna be completely healed, then somebody comes along and pokes it with a stick, and it opens up again. And that's what happens with the Ritchie-and-Deep Purple situation.
The truth can be very sharp. But it makes a cleaner wound than lies. It will not fester
Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.
The less the head, the more the wound will heal. No head there is no wound. Live a headless life. Move as a total being, and accept things.
The damage can fester under layers of time and change, and an ignorant, thoughtless remark can easily reopen the wound.
The guilt I felt for having a mental illness was horrible. I prayed for a broken bone that would heal in six weeks. But that never happened. I was cursed with an illness that nobody could see and nobody knew much about.
Shattered legs may heal in time, but some betrayals fester and poison the soul.
Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.
A wound needs air in order to heal. We must talk about and expose those things which have hurt or harmed us in some way. Our wounds need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist. We must carefully do what is necessary to help ourselves feel better.
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.
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