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We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.

We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
– Leslie Jamison

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  1. Pain without cause is a pain we can’t trust. We assume it’s been chosen or fabricated. – Leslie Jamison
  2. Freedom from one man is just another one. – Leslie Jamison
  3. We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too. – Leslie Jamison
  4. Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight. – Leslie Jamison
  5. facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been. – Leslie Jamison
  6. It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling. – Leslie Jamison
  7. I didn’t enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy. – Leslie Jamison
  8. Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough. – Leslie Jamison
  9. Imagining someone else’s pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it. – Leslie Jamison
  10. Empathy isn’t just listening, it’s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. – Leslie Jamison
  11. This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It’s a quick fix of empathy. – Leslie Jamison
  12. Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. – Leslie Jamison
  13. Extreme inequality and financial crisis usually coincide. But the elite who cause it usually come out OK. And they are usually man. – Katrine Maral
  14. You create what you speak. So, speak a better world.Speak a happier and more loving life. Speak yourdespair and let it lead you back to your truth. – Rachel C Weingarten
  15. Not having enough talent seemed almost worse than not having any, because having a little meant having just enough to know what you lacked – Kat Howard
  16. Leslie, don’t you believe that I know who you will marry, and that I’m capable of leading you to that right man someday? – Leslie Ludy
  17. Time Can Not Cure Heart’s Wounds Never,But Wounds Spoil and Kill Heart On The Time – Mohammed Zaki Ansari
  18. Time does not heal all wounds; if a man is not careful, time erases wounds. Then what is he left with? The cold and the silence. – Doug Rice
  19. Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay. – Emma Forrest
  20. Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don’t last forever. That healing is possible. – Lecrae Moore
  21. Wounds are wounds. Scars are scars. They can heal but not vanish. – DN Joshi
  22. Only themselves understand themselves and the like of themselves,As souls only understand souls. – Walt Whitman
  23. We have to speak up on behalf of those who cannot speak for themselves. – Peter Singer
  24. Words have power, and when you speak you give them life. Speak into the atmosphere. Speak into existence what you believe, desire, dream, and hope. – Amaka Imani Nkosazana
  25. It’s a small-town rule: Never speak ill of the dead until the estate has paid the outstanding bills. – Leslie Meier
  26. Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists. – Thomas L Friedman
  27. 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
  28. If you have to tell them you are, you’re usually not. It usually speaks for itself. – Faydra D Fields
  29. When there’s a vacuum of public input, lobbyists usually fill it. But when there’s public input, the people usually win. – Morgan Carroll
  30. Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven. – Tim Wirth
  31. Those who say life is knocking them down and giving them a tough time are usually the first to beat themselves up. Be on your own side. – Rasheed Ogunlaru
  32. Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. – John Maynard Keynes
  33. People who speak less, they usually pray a lot. I think that a great nation is a nation of prayer. – Alin Sav
  34. Those who speak largely of the human condition are usually those most exempt from its oppressions – whether of sex, race, or servitude. – Adrienne Rich
  35. Oh, I usually pray in Spanish, speak French to my boyfriend, curse in Dutch, and talk German to my German Shepherd – Justin WM Roberts
  36. One of the advantages of science is that one’s work, ultimately, is either replicated or it is not. – Kay Redfield Jamison
  37. But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met. – Kay Redfield Jamison
  38. If I can’t feel, if I can’t move, if I can’t think, and I can’t care, then what conceivable point is there in living? – Kay Redfield Jamison
  39. Somehow, like so many people who get depressed, we felt our depressions were more complicated and existentially based than they actually were. – Kay Redfield Jamison
  40. I realized that it was not that I didn’t want to go on without him. I did. It was just that I didn’t know why I wanted to go on – Kay Redfield Jamison

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