Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength, move on.

a scar is stronger than skin.

Because a scar means you survived. It means you’re tough and hard to kill. It means you lived. A scar is something to admire.

Never be ashamed of a scar. In the end, scars tell the story of our lives, everything that hurt us, and everything that healed us.

Never be ashamed of a scar. It simply means you were stronger then whatever tried to hurt you.

Scars exist to show that I existed. I myself don’t have any scars, but every single one of my friends has a healed up knife wound deep in their back.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Because we embrace our scars more than our healing. [...] We can recall the exact day we got hurt, but who remembers the day the wound was gone?

Our scars are the brightest Parts of us.

Wear your scars like jewelry cause they were bought with blood.

To be alive at all is to have scars.

Scars speak more loudly than the sword that caused them.

We all bear scars,... Mine just happen to be more visible than most.

We’ve all fallen, and we have the skinned knees and bruised hearts to prove it. But scars are easier to talk about than they are to show, with all the remembered feelings laid bare. And rarely do we see wounds that are in the process of healing. I’m not sure if it’s because we feel too much shame to let anyone see a process as intimate as overcoming hurt, or if it’s because even when we muster the courage to share our still-incomplete healing, people reflexively look away.