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Letter "S" » scarred
«I am a frayed and nibbled survivor in a fallen world, and I am getting along. I am aging and eaten and have done my share of eating too. I am not washed and beautiful, in control of a shining world in which everything fits, but instead am wondering awed about on a splintered wreck I've come to care for, whose gnawed trees breathe a delicate air, whose bloodied and scarred creatures are my dearest companions, and whose beauty bats and shines not in its imperfections but overwhelmingly in spite of them...»
Author: Annie Dillard
(Author)
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«For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.»
Author: Dorothy Dix
(Columnist, Journalist)
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«God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars»
«The optimist already sees the scar over the wound; the pessimist still sees the wound underneath the scar»
Author: Ernst Schroder
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«There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.»
«It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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«Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.»
«Every winner has scars.»
«No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically.»
Author: Isaac Asimov
(Biochemist, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Yes, I see the Church as the body of Christ. But, oh! How we have blemished and scarred that body through social neglect and through fear of being nonconformists.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
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