Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.
Interpretation
The experiences of pain and hardship can make us stronger and more resilient.
This quote by Henry Rollins conveys that the challenges and traumas we endure in life can fortify us, just as scar tissue is tougher than the skin it replaces. It encourages us to recognize the strength that comes from overcoming difficulties and to carry that resilience forward as we move on in life.
In practice
In a motivational speech about personal growth after hardship.
Some people see Black Friday as a much-needed break for their wallet. I see it as retail outlets showing the customers the full weight of their contempt. The frenzy to buy cheap crap from China, the human downgrade of people fighting with each other over items they can probably live without, to me, is an insult.
Strength is the product of struggle, you must do what others don't to achieve what others won't.
Sitting in a room, alone, listening to a CD is to be lonely. Sitting in a room alone with an LP crackling away, or sitting next to the turntable listening to a song at a time via 7-inch single is enjoying the sublime state of solitude.
When the Iron doesn't want to come off the mat, it's the kindest thing it can do for you. If it flew up and went through the ceiling, it wouldn't teach you anything.
If you paid Americans a living wage, they would be able to pay for products made by Americans in America.
If I lose the light of the sun, I will write by candlelight, moonlight, no light. If I lose paper and ink, I will write in blood on forgotten walls. I will write always. I will capture nights all over the world and bring them to you
Above all, try always to be able to feel deeply any injustice committed against any person in any part of the world. It is the most beautiful quality of a revolutionary.
No sane man is unafraid in battle, but discipline produces in him a form of vicarious courage.
When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.
True bravery is shown by performing without witness what one might be capable of doing before all the world.
His headstone said FREE AT LAST, FREE AT LAST But death is a slave's freedom We seek the freedom of free men And the construction of a world Where Martin Luther King could have lived and preached nonviolence.
If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution.
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