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“I try to interpret how people subjectively experience life. Everyone has a great, horrible opera inside him. I feel that my plays, in a way, are very old-fashioned. They’re pre-Freudian in the sense that the Greeks and Shakespeare worked with similar assumptions. Catharsis isn’t a wound being excavated from childhood.”

People Way Feels Trying Play Childhood Wounds Horrible Greek Assumption Opera Old Fashioned Catharsis

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“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.”

Would Be Left Term My Own Childhood Clean Wounds Best Things

Author:Patti Davis

“Adulthood was invented to repair the wounds of childhood.”

Women Childhood Wounds Adulthood

Author:Joy Browne

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

Ifs Childhood Wounds Heal Your Children

Author:Oprah Winfrey

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

People Childhood Wounds Crippled

Book:Fancy Pants

Source: Fancy Pants

“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.”

Needs Has Beens Self Names Childhood Century Wounds Heal Healed Psychotherapy Personal History Self Inflicted Self Inflicted Wounds

Author:Thomas Keating

“I remember how beautiful the Merrimac looked to me in childhood, the first true river I ever knew; it opened upon my sight and wound its way through my heart like a dream realized; its harebells, its rocks, and its rapids, are far more fixed in my memory than anything about the sea.”

Way Firsts Heart Dream Beautiful Remember Memories Sea Childhood Rocks My Heart Rivers Sight Wounds Fixed Rapids

Author:Lucy Larcom

“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.”

Feels Mind Heart Able Happened Childhood Wounds Pitfalls Too Deep Shadow Of The Wind

Book:The Shadow Of The Wind

Source: The Shadow Of The Wind

“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.”

Humans Long Turns Memories Greater Childhood Emotional Absolutes Lists Wounds Certainty Bags Significance Resentment Packs Rats Absolute Certainty

Book:Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia