I hadn’t understood at the time. If sinners were so unhappy,why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why.Without my wounds, who was I? My scars were my face, my pastwas my life. - Janet Fitch
If chaos is a masterpiece,Then you should see my heart.If battle scars are beautiful,Then I'm a work of art. - Kyra Jackson
Everyone wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late. Jonathan Tropper, from The Book of Joe - Madelon Phillips
Healing begins with owing your scars & disowning that which caused them - Shilpa Menon
I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals. - Paulo Coelho
Kiss your scars. Fall in love with them. They ought to serve as life-affirming reminders—a lingering trace of hope. The only reason we have these scars is because we survived and are still here. - Kamand Kojouri
I wanted to know every story behind the scars on her curves. I wanted to decipher the whispers hidden beneath her every breath. I wanted to unravel her with my hands. - Hubert Martin
The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been. - Jodi Picoult
The power to heal the scars begins with hope. - Shilpa Menon
I want you, Rosa,' Antonio said, turning to her. 'I want you with your scars and your suffering. You are my wife and everything that has happened to you only makes you more precious to me. - Belinda Alexandra
Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are. - Malcolm Forbes
I used to never get in a swimsuit. I used to feel so embarrassed about my skin and scars. I'm over that, it wasted too much of my time and I missed out on too much. - Stephanie Nielson
Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be. - Robert M. Drake
But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars. - Rudy Schwartz (Joe Newman)
How can you make light of it? I says. What should I do? She says. Cry fer the rest of my life? Molly of the Many Sorrows?...You got battle scars. This is mine, she says. You know what it tells me? I'm a survivor. - Moira Young
The more challenges life deals us, the more scars experiences give us, the higher we go, the better we get. - Vinita Kinra
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. - Kahlil Gibran
We live with the scars we choose. - Shannon L. Alder
Youth is no protection; in the end, life scars us all. - C.W. Gortner
She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly - Nikki Rowe
For me, the most interesting people seem to have the bumpiest pasts. I prefer to connect with someone who has experienced the struggles, battles, and casualties of life’s journey. There is beauty, wisdom, and truth to be found in the scars. - Steve Maraboli
Scars prove that you're still here. That you can move on. Maybe missing a chunk of yourself, but here, goddamn it, surviving. - Ash Parsons
It’s called an inner voice for a reason. It’s the gnawing feeling inside your stomach telling you yes or no. It’s the one voice in your life that isn’t tampered by other’s biased opinions, scars, feelings or thoughts. Go with it, you know yourself better than anyone ever does. - Hope Alcocer
They say that time Heals everythingBut they dob't know youAnd the scars you bring - The Wanted
Don't be scared of scars. They just tell stories that are hard to hear. - Ashly Lorenzana
I don't think I've ever dared to write down what I see in the ruins of me, or tell in any detail the scars and all their secrets. - Ashly Lorenzana
Scars show us where we have been, they do not dictate where we are going. - David Rossi
Only the moon's smile can cure the unseen scars of darkness - Munia Khan
Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to. - Shilpa Menon
Your deepest scars tell the world of your greatest triumphs. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It is not the the bruises on the body that hurt. It is the wounds of the heart and the scars on the mind. - Aisha Mirza
The human race tends to remember the abuses to which it has been subjected rather than the endearments. What's left of kisses? Wounds, however, leave scars. - Bertolt Brecht
Scars we have today are the constant reminder of our past. They are our auto energizer in our journey toward the future. No need to fear the scars. - Jean Nshimiyimana
You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time. - Abegail O. Salazar
Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth! - C. JoyBell C.
Let our scars fall in love. - Galway Kinnell
In the midst of our lives we must find the One who tends to our scars, mends our hearts, and heals our souls. - Aisha Mirza
Scars are the awards of success, not the medals. - Debasish Mridha
You want to know how I got these scars? I ripped every last piece of you out of my smile. - Rudy Francisco
Why is it so tough to forget pain and tougher to remember happiness.We treasure our scars but forget to live on our smiles. - Hanif Hassan Barbhuiya
UnsightlyIf I strip my heart naked, you'll see all the unsightly scars, I'm afraid. - John Mark Green
I Remember Years Ago, Someone Told Me I Should Take Caution When it Comes to Love, I DidSo Tell Them All I Know NowShout it From the RooftopsWrite it On the Sky LineAll We Had Is Gone NowTell Them I Was Happyand My Heart is BrokenAll My Scars Are OpenTell Them What I Hoped Would BeImpossible - Shontelle
A loyal heart is true to love even if it is full of scars - johncen k.m.f vergara
Scars are your greatest medals in life. - Matshona Dhliwayo
The first step to healing is to make peace with your scars - Evy Michaels
I will not play it safe!I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars. - Steve Maraboli
I don’t want people to fall in love with my smile, my face or my body. I am waiting for somebody to love the mess I can be and fall in love with my emotional scars. - Karon Waddell
With time, scars turn into wisdom. - Shilpa Menon
Scars are an affirmation of living. - Joshua Wisenbaker
The scars of others should teach us caution. - Saint Jerome
No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars... - Daniel Yanez
We all have scars & deep pain. It'swhat makes us human & vulnerable. - Anshuma Sharma
He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh... - Larry Correia
When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. - Rabindranath Tagore
Because you have my heart, Virgilia Wessex. Softly, almost achingly. Every black ounce of it. Scars and all. - V.S. Carnes
Nico was wrong. The Book of Fate isn't already written. It's written every day.Some scars never heal.Then again, some do. - Brad Meltzer
If I am more alive because love burns and chars me,as a fire, given wood or wind, feels new elation,it's that he who lays me low is my salvation,and invigorates the more, the more he scars me. - Michelangelo Buonarroti
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars. - Garrison Keillor
Scars are a warrior's beauty marks. - Matshona Dhliwayo
It was that Moment when your fingers touched my skin for the first time I realised, how the fire can heal scars. - Akshay Vasu
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing. - Linda Hogan
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. - Eugene O'Neill
At the cross, Jesus subjects himself to disability, and his resurrected body continues to bear his scars as a sign of God's solidarity with humanity. - Thomas E. Reynolds
Everyone has scars. Cowards conceal them. The brave reveal them. - A.D. Posey
Scars heal when you learn to FLY.F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself). - Shilpa Menon
I will not play it safe! I want to experience the length, depth, and breadth of life. I'm not just here for the victories... I'm here for the scars. - Steve Maraboli
Unexpressed grief leaves the deepest scars. - Marty Rubin
Don't be afraid of suffering. Often scars are the medals of success. - Debasish Mridha
Scars are the medals of success, not the glitters or the gold. - Debasish Mridha
Despite our battered exterior and in spite of the festering scars and rank filth that overlays it, there is underneath it all the pristine likeness of God Himself. And we would be wise to cast an eye not on the marred exterior, but to be fixed on the glorious interior. - Craig D. Lounsbrough
Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance. - Rodney A. Winters
I feel like a real dead one: having neither blood to bleed nor any flesh or bone to feel the scars; yet I want to hold on to my spirit. - Munia Khan
Sometimes even doing the right thing will leave you with scars. But beauty comes from ashes, too. And I know that to be true. - Natalie Lloyd
Make not the scars of yesterdayMake you bitter todayYesterday has passedAnd like water in a river once passed Can never be returnedThe KhoiSan Book of Wisdom - rassool jibraeel snyman
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 think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion. - Yohji Yamamoto
Who was it that hurt you, stole the light out of your eyes? Cut a hole in your heart and let the love drain dry? Who was so damn careless, to leave you with such scars? Where will you find healing? Right here, within my arms. - John Mark Green
Do not trust a person without scars. If they have no scars, then it means someone else is wearing theirs, usually unfairly, and usually permanently. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
Ten years it has been, through our deepest secrets and prettiest moments… under the handsomest sky so bedecked by the stars and sometimes between the dusty roads that often blurred our eyes with smoke and scars. - Debalina Haldar
Some scars don't hurt. Some scars are numb. Some scars rid you of the capacity to feel anything ever again. - Joyce Rachelle
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears - Paulo Coelho
God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas, but for scars. - Elbert Hubbard
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. - Harry Crews
Thou doth not know the tragedy of a tale between two hearts till the tears of a forgotten love dissolve into the scars of yearning and seep through the cracks of the broken, leaving behind a trail of crimson for all but one to see. - Raneem Kayyali
Most scars are destined long before they are experienced. Healing is however, a choice. - Shilpa Menon
Sure, scars can be painfull to look at, reminding you where you've been, but they also remind you of how far you've come. - GirlDrawsManga
In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside? It should bloody well show. - Janet Fitch
To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful. - Khadija Rupa
My scars tell a story. They are a reminder of times when life tried to break me, but failed. They are markings of where the structure of my character was welded. - Steve Maraboli
Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever. - Vince McKewin
She wore her scars, and looked as best as she could. He made her comfortable and removed them one by one. She stood bare in front of him. He kissed her naked soul and tattooed a promise on her skin - Himanshu Chhabra
wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin. - Sanober Khan
Confidence is this: Wearing your triumphs with humility, and wearing your scars with pride. Many of us do precisely the opposite. - Umair Haque