To be alive at all is to have scars.
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Life leaves scars. Sometimes you don’t see them until later. Sometimes you don’t know where they’ve come from. Sometimes they fade before your eyes. But the world leaves its mark on us.
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present and their past, but you’d be amazed at the pain and tears a single smile hides. What a person shows to the world is only one tiny facet of the iceberg hidden from sight. And more often then not, it’s lined with cracks and…
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it’s true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn’t fade and the scars don’t heal, and it’s too damned late.
The best people all have some kind of scar.
You have to die a few times before you can really live.
It’s easy for someone to joke about scars if they’ve never been cut.
One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of…
I don’t want to die without any scars
I still have scars, but they don't remind me of him. They remind me that I am here, without him, despite him.
Scars can be a beautiful reminder of the past…except the ones from drinking coffee in bed and scalding my bare chest. Those are just dumb.
Scars are the paler pain of survival received unwillingly and displayed in the language of injury.
Virtually all women will always carry the scars and a deep sense of loss and grief from the betrayal. Whether a woman has stayed, left, or been left, it must be remembered that time is the salve on this journey towards forgiveness and healing, because it is also a process of grieving.
Love is dangerous. Love leaves scars.
What is the weirdest scar you have and how did you get it?
I transform with pressure, I'm hands-on with effort. I fell twice before my bounce back was special. Letdowns will get you, and the critics will test you but the strong will survive, another scar may bless you.
I've learned the hard way, you can't control other people. You cannot change them either. All you can do is love them for what they are, and forgive them for the rest.
— k.a, instagram.com
It' the oldest story in the world; One day you're seventeen and planning for 'some day,' and then quietly and without ever really noticing, some day is today. And then 'some day' is yesterday...and this is your life.