Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.
Our scars make us know that our past was for real
Each of us is the sum of our scars.
Only fools pity survivors their scars and you should never kowtow to fools
A voice said, Look me in the stars And tell me truly, men of earth, If all the soul-and-body scars Were not too much to pay for birth.
My scars are numerous, my flesh is powerless, my enemy is dangerous, but my God is glorious and His grace is totally sufficient.
Segregation. . . not only harms one physically but injures one spiritually. . . It scars the soul. . . It is a system which forever stares the segregated in the face, saying 'You are less than. . . ''You are not equal to. . . '
The Lord will not wish to count my trophies, but my scars.
The one thing all that battle taught me, is that no one walks away without scars. No one. (Bad Moon Rising)
Acheron always says that our scars are there to remind us of out pasts, of where we've been and what we've gone through. But that pain doesn't have to drive or determine our future. We can rise about it if we let ourselves. It's not easy, but nothing in life ever is. " -Sundown
But I too hate long books: the better, the worse. If they're bad they merely make me pant with the effort of holding them up for a few minutes. But if they're good, I turn into a social moron for days, refusing to go out of my room, scowling and growling at interruptions, ignoring weddings and funerals, and making enemies out of friends. I still bear the scars of Middlemarch.
If you don't believe there's a price for this sweet paradise, just remind me to show you the scars.
There is no shame in scars, Ismae.
It's not the physical scars that are the most painful.
You can’t walk away from someone you love, leave them drowning in your desertion. If love has no more meaning than that, you can keep it. I don’t want it now or ever again. Don’t want to hear the word or wear its scars.
Wounds turn into scars and scars make you tough.
People ask me, "How do I succeed?" Whatever it is they do, I say, "Go and find 20 ways of messing it up. By 21, you'll be getting there. " Life is an adventure, go back with cuts, scars and bruises.
I can heal the scars on your body, but I can’t heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them
I don't want to die without scars.
We are still living in the aftershock of Hiroshima, people are still the scars of history.