“Love is an immortal wound that cannot be closed up. A person loses something, a part of her soul, when she loves someone. And she goes about looking for that lost part of her soul, for she knows that otherwise she is incomplete and cannot be at rest. It is only when she is with the person she loves that she becomes complete again in herself; but the moment he leaves, she loses that part which he has taken with him and knows no rest till she has found him once more.” KnowsLovePersonsSoulMomentsFoundLostLosesLove IsTakenWoundsImmortalLove SomeoneIncomplete Author:Lin Yutang
“...as there is no screen or ceiling between our heads and the infinite heavens, so is there no bar or wall in the soul where man, the effect, ceases, and God, the cause, begins. The walls are taken away. We lie open on one side to the deeps of spiritual nature, to the attributes of God. Justice we see and know, Love, Freedom, Power. These natures no man ever got above, but they tower over us, and most in the moment when our interests tempt us to wound them.” KnowsMenSoulMomentsSpiritualLyingHeavenCausesSidesInterestJusticeTakenEffectsWallInfiniteScreensWoundsBarsCeaseAttributesTowersCeilingsSpiritual NatureLove FreedomAttributes Of God Book:Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson Source: Essays and English Traits by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Here lies, in a "horizontal" position The "outside" case of Peter Pendulum, watch-maker. He departed this life "wound up" In hopes of being "taken in hand" by his Maker, And of being thoroughly "cleaned, repaired" and "set a-going" In the world to come.” WorldHandsLyingWatchesCasesTakenPositionWoundsThis LifeMakersPeterDepartedHorizontalPendulums Author:Woodrow Wilson
“There are wounds of the spirit which never close and are intended in God's mercy to bring us nearer to Him, and to prevent us leaving Him by their very perpetuity. Such wounds then may almost be taken as a pledge, or at least as a ground for a humble trust, that God will give us the great gift of perseverance to the end. This is how I comfort myself in my own great bereavements.” GivingMayEndsSpiritMy OwnTakenComfortMercyPerseveranceLeavingHumbleWoundsGods WillBereavementPledgeGreat GiftsLeaving Him Book:Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman Source: Selections from the Prose and Poetry of John Henry Newman
“I've had more misrepresentations than I can handle, and people have told the wickedest lies about me. A lot of them have taken their frustrations out on me, and I don't like that because it can wound. Not necessarily me, but those around me. Journalists can be so bad.” PeopleI CanLyingTakenWoundsHandleJournalistFrustrationMisrepresentation Author:Grace Jones