I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
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An honest man speaks the truth, though it may give offence; a vain man, in order that it may.
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To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?
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There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds -- not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but -- a hatred of all injury.
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No one likes having offended another person; hence everyone feels so much better if the other person doesn't show he's been offended. Nobody likes being confronted by a wounded spaniel. Remember that. It is much easier patiently -- and tolerantly -- to avoid the person you have injured than to approach him as a friend. You need courage for that.
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Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
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Where there is injury let me sow pardon.
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Young men soon give, and soon forget, affronts; old age is slow in both.
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The troubles of the young are soon over; they leave no external mark. If you wound the tree in its youth the bark will quickly cover the gash; but when the tree is very old, peeling the bark off, and looking carefully, you will see the scar there still. All that is buried is not dead.
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Everyone suffers wrongs for which there is no remedy.
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Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
