The wound made by hurting with fire will heal but the wound created by harsh words uttered using out tongue leaves an indelible scar.

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

A torn jacket is soon mended, but hard words bruise the heart of a child.

Forgiveness does not mean forgetting. Forgiveness does not mean that the scars stopped hurting. They'll always be there, just like the wound Jesus showed to Thomas after the resurrection.

To reprove a harm-doer, put him to shame by doing a good deed in return.

You hold my heart in your hand, do whatever you please with it, you will just do as much damage as you did before...