“We hurt each other, is the point. Hurt, annoy, embarrass, but move on. People, it just doesn't work that way. Your own feelings get so complicated that you forget the ways another human being can be vulnerable. You spend a lot of energy protecting yourself. All those layers and motivations and feelings. You get hurt, you stay hurt sometimes. The hurt affects your ability to go forward. And words. All the words between us. Words can be permanent. Certain ones are impossible to forgive.”
“If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.”
“I do not understand why you would go out of your way to hurt each other, when life can already hurt so much.”
“People hurt each other all the time just by being. What matters is that when you hurt someone, you do what you can to make it right.”
“Sometimes I forget that I can hurt you. That you are capable of being hurt”
“The hurt affects your ability to go forward.”