Parenting is a sacred responsibility with the sobering reality, of raising scholars or scars.
The girl wore her scars the way some women wore their finest jewelry.
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
Matthew had won this battle—a battle in a war marked no more by yards on an open field, but by scars unseen.
Memory is the only afterlife I have ever believed in. But the forgetting inside us cannot be stopped. We are programmed to betray.
The fact that my circumstances had changed drastically but my behavior hadn't was beginning to wear on me.
Every time you empty your vessel of that energy, fresh new energy comes flooding in.
One of the better definitions of insanity - doing the exact same thing over and over and expecting the result to be different.
Music itself was color-blind but the media and the radio stations segregate it based on their perceptions of the artists.
Scars are proof man isn’t perfect, though constantly getting closer.
But sometimes the scars go too deep and the stories are too personal to share.
Heroes always have their scars. Some you can see, some you read about later on.
...A scar signifies past pain, a wound that did not heal as it ought. But it testifies, too, to survival...(Here be Dragons)
My heart! Ohhh my poor heart Its bruised...its scarred and its full of pain.... But its still in love with you!
Army wives experience hell from the inside out; a wound you'll never see, a scar that never heals.
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always makes you less than you are.
Honesty is about the scars. It's about the blemishes. But it's more than just bragging about failure, which could be a form of ego. It's about truly helping people.
The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.
I love being Jewish; I have no problem with it at all. But it did become like a scar, with all these people saying you don't look it.
Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.
