A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to "put it behind you" but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.
Interpretation
Wounds and challenges can unleash our inner strength and aid in personal growth rather than merely being obstacles to overcome.
This quote by David Richo emphasizes the transformative power of our wounds and difficulties. Rather than viewing them as mere burdens to move past, they should be seen as catalysts that can awaken our innate self-healing abilities, fostering resilience and personal growth. By acknowledging and embracing the strength gained from our experiences of pain, we allow ourselves to continually benefit from the insights and strength derived from those challenges.
In practice
This quote can be shared during a motivational talk about handling life's challenges.
Once we make our relationship choices in an adult way, a prospective partner who is unavailable, nonreciprocal, or not open to processing feelings and issues, becomes, by those very facts, unappealing. Once we love ourselves, people no longer look good to us unless they are good for us.
Creating some god for one's inspirations was always a good way to avoid accusations of pride should the scheme succeed, as well as the blame if did not.
When I was young, a teacher had forbidden me to say "more perfect" because she said if a thing is perfect it can't be more so. But by now I had seen enough of life to have regained my confidence in it.
The greatest enemy of good thinking is busyness.
All is not gold that glitters, as we have often been told; and the adage is verified in your place and my favour; but if what happens does not make us richer, we must bid it welcome, if it makes us wiser.
If you want to give light to others you have to glow yourself.
I shall ask no more than that you agree with Dean Inge that even though counting heads is not an ideal way to govern, at least it is better than breaking them.
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