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.

Don't hide your scars, your stretch marks,
your laugh lines, your calloused hands.
They are your life story,
telling of struggles won and lost,
challenges faced, losses overcome,
life grown and birthed and nurtured,
hard work accomplished,
stars reached for, hopes dashed, dreams realized,
rock bottoms and mountain tops.
They tell the story of your one
amazing, awful, beautiful life
written in the curves and lines of
extraordinary, miraculous, beautiful you.

I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

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

Every scar in my face is worth it.

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

To be alive at all is to have scars.

(...the non-conformist, how do you keep from getting scarred?)/i don’t! i got a scar here…and uh i got a scar on my knee…and uh a few scars on my soul.

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?

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

The damage is divine.
There’s substance to your scars.
There’s wisdom in your wounds.
There’s purpose behind your pain.

Our scars are the brightest Parts of us.

nobody makes it through life without collecting a few scars on the way out.

Wear your heart on your skin in this life.