"As more people have found the courage to break through shame and speak about woundedness in their lives, we are now subjected to a mean-spirited cultural response, where all talk of woundedness is moc..."
- bell hooks
"Each of us wages a private battle to thrive. Whenever a person fully immerses oneself in life’s aromatic flower garden of pleasures and encounters life’s warship of armor-plated rigors, they blend and..."
- Kilroy J. Oldster
"We often use the Bible as a source for personal validation and defense, a sidekick and a shield, but these will prove ineffective without first the other part. We must also allow ourselves to be wound..."
- Criss Jami
"They say that family is the place of safety. But sometimes this is the greatest lie; family is not sanctuary, it is not safety and succour. For some of us, it is the secret wound. Sooner or later we p..."
- Nayomi Munaweera
"A physical wound may heal, but a spiritual one may last for ever"
- Bangambiki Habyarimana
"A woman will endure many wounds in her lifetime, but the betrayal of a friend is one of the most difficult to overcome."
- Tina Samples
"I am stupid, am I not? What more can I want? If you ask them who is brave--who is true--who is just--who is it they would trust with their lives?--they would say, Tuan Jim. And yet they can never know..."
- Joseph Conrad
"A knife may scar a body, but a careless word will wound a soul."