Top 43 Past Wounds Quotes
#1. We cannot embrace God's forgiveness if we are so busy clinging to past wounds and nursing old grudges.
T.D. Jakes
#2. Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love
William Keepin
#3. Love is the most powerful healing force of all. But past
demons have a way of ripping open old wounds, and
threatening the survival of even the strongest friendship ...
Cherrie Lynn
#4. There's some wounds that run too deep to be seen. They're the most dangerous.
Moira Young
#5. Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed
Iyanla Vanzant
#6. Whether it is better to forget and let wounds heal or remember and learn from the past is a crucial question for all of us, wherever we are.
Romesh Gunesekera
#7. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.
Jacob Nordby
#8. In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.
Brennan Manning
#9. Just because you know it [my past]... doesn't mean that my wounds are a weight you have to carry.
~Kurogane-san
CLAMP
#10. Count your salted wounds then name them
like the stars of a bright constellation
Count your scars and bruises then give them
the wings of forgiveness to fly
Malak El Halabi
#11. The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people's hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.
Ai Yazawa
#12. Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.
Alexander Lowen
#13. Trials and tribulations offer us a chance to make reparation for our past faults and sins. On such occasions the Lord comes to us like a physician to heal the wounds left by our sins. Tribulation is the divine medicine.
Saint Augustine
#14. In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along
Billy Joel
#15. I've heard it said, time heals all wounds, but if a dream can pull you so deeply into your past you can't remember the present, I'm not sure my wounds will ever heal.
C.J. Roberts
#16. After the war, Germany fully confessed to all its dirty tricks. It's necessary to is draw a line under the past, even if people did something evil. Until we do, wounds won't heal.
Lech Walesa
#17. Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#18. Experienced things that caused you to deemed yourself unworthy. Healing the wounds of the past is one of the biggest and most worthwhile challenges of life. It's important to know when and how you were programed so you can change the program. In doing so is your responsibility no one else's.
Oprah Winfrey
#19. He picked up his knife and started carving again. He concentrated on the lines and planes of the wood to keep his mind from wandering too far into the past.
He had his own wounds that refused to heal.
Lorraine Heath
#20. Time heals the wounds of the past,
Apology, forgiveness, and acceptance
does lighten the scars.
Rhoendyl RCruz
#21. For some, excavating the past isn't an adventure, it's more akin to tearing a Band-Aid off an open wound.
Raquel Cepeda
#22. We sail across dominions barely seen, washed by the swells of time. We plow through fields of magnetism. Past and future come together on thunderheads and our dead hearts live with lightning in the wounds of the Gods.
Norman Mailer
#23. Life was conical in shape, the past broadening beyond the sharp point of the lived moment. The more life you had, the more the base expanded, so that the wounds and treasons that were nearly imperceptible when they happened stretched like tiny dots on a balloon slowly blown up.
Lauren Groff
#24. How does it happen? At what point is she born, the baffled, wounded adult of tomorrow? Is eleven what we react to for the rest of our lives?
Kyo Maclear
#25. In short, from then on, we accepted our status as prisoners; we were reduced to our past alone and even if a few people were tempted to live in the future, they quickly gave it up, as far as possible, suffering the wounds that the imagination eventually inflicts on those who trust in it.
Albert Camus
#26. The wounds of the past and the scars of the present don't disfigure me in your eyes - because you know the price I pay for loving you ...
John Geddes
#28. The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.
Jim Butcher
#29. A mind cluttered with past thoughts, old conversations and unhealed wounds can only serve to drag us down and compromise our ability to live free.
Shannon Tanner
#30. Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
Alan Brennert
#31. Energetic cords are unconscious - often sentimental or compulsive - emotional ties to past and present relationships, pre-conditioned by our wounds. They are made of toxic emotions such fear, guilt, blame, hatred, obligation, grasping need or pain.
Avril Carruthers
#32. Tapping into our inherent sexuality can offer a gateway to deep healing of past hurts and wounds, which are carried in the body and can hinder one's potentials for leading the happy, sexually fulfilled life we all deserve.
Antonia Hall
#33. It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.
Peter Robinson
#35. Self-love means caring for ourselves enough to forgive people in our past so that the wounds can no longer damage us - for our wounds do not hurt the people who hurt us, they hurt only us.
Caroline Myss
#36. To experience emotional freedom, we must accept, surrender, and let go of our wounds. We must be willing to take responsibility for what we're holding on to, which is usually a hurt or pain from the past that leaves us feeling victimized.
Debbie Ford
#37. But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky
#38. Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is given to us.
Bell Hooks
#39. The inward battle
against our mind, our wounds, and the residues of the past
is more terrible than outward battle.
Sivananda
#40. Aura is convinced that the entire country has succumbed to a collective amnesia. This is what happened in a society, where no one is permitted to grow old slowly. Nobody talks of the past, for fear their wounds might reopen. Privately though, their wounds never heal.
Cristina Garcia
#41. When people confront the past - their sins, wounds, and curses - they experience amazing joy, freedom, and spiritual growth. They move from just the assurance of their salvation to an experience of divine deliverance.
Chris Hodges
#42. You can't heal a heart that's been fragmented. But my wounds were closing. Stitch by stitch, I was starting to feel again. I can't undo the past and stop everything that has happened. However, I can try to take a tiny step forward.
Calia Read
#43. When someone shows you their heart, their past, their wounds, they have entrusted you with the deepest part of themselves. It is the part of themselves that makes them uniquely beautiful. To be trusted in this way is a great honor. Guard that trust with your life.
Yasmin Mogahed
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