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
The most moving responses I got to my coming out in the first place was people, like teenagers, letting me know that it made their lives easier in some way.
While the United States has often taken the wrong path, it has rarely failed to demonstrate - at least in the long run - the courage to reverse its steps.
The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by reflection.
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are.
You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.
There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past.
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