Childhood Wounds Quotes

#1. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.

David W. Earle

#2. Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.

Marianne Williamson

#3. I thought the best thing that I could do would be to clean up my own act, in terms of whatever .. childhood wounds were left.

Patti Davis

#4. How much more generous it would be if, instead of writing parables about childhood wounds, psychologists were to accept that some differences between the sexes just are, that they are in the nature of the beasts, because each sex has an evolved tendency to develop that way in response to experience.

Matt Ridley

#5. Romantic Love delivers us into the passionate arms of someone who will ultimately trigger the same frustrations we had with our parents, but for the best possible reason! Doing so brings our childhood wounds to the surface so they can be healed.

Harville Hendrix

#6. My son youngest son David's favorite song - he plays guitar - and he likes "Devil Pray." That's his favorite.

Madonna Ciccone

#7. If you don't heal the wounds of your childhood, you bleed into the future.

Oprah Winfrey

#8. You grow up the day you realize your parents are just wounded children.

Srividya Srinivasan

#9. It is only Jesus Christ who has thrown light on life and immortality through the gospel; and because He has done so, and has enabled us by His atoning death and intercession to make the most of this discovery, His gospel is, for all who will, a power of God unto salvation.

Henry Parry Liddon

#10. At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#11. Childhood introduces children to the wounds of the world.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#12. For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays.

C.S. Lewis

#13. Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.

Joy Browne

#14. They knew that a man so hurt and so perplexed may turn in anger, even on people he loves. They left the men alone to figure and to wonder in the dust. After

John Steinbeck

#15. May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Euripides

#16. One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#17. Catharsis isn't a wound being excavated from childhood.

Sarah Ruhl

#18. Introverts' wounds usually begin in childhood. Our families of origin convey to us messages about introversion, which set us on a path of either self-acceptance or self-criticism.

Adam S. McHugh

#19. It's my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

Jo-Ann Mapson

#20. Perhaps this was the wisdom with which a child in her position survived: by minimizing her wounds - staying as small as possible, as nearly transparent as possible.

Haruki Murakami

#21. As a parent who raised his children in dysfunction, I know the parental wounds my children received were not intentional; often they were my best expression of love, sometimes coming out sideways, not as I intended.

David W. Earle

#22. All of us carry around countless bags of dusty old knickknacks dated from childhood: collected resentments, long list of wounds of greater or lesser significance, glorified memories, absolute certainties that later turn out to be wrong. Humans are emotional pack rats. These bags define us.

Marya Hornbacher

#23. Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.

Thomas Keating