Quotes About Healing

I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.

When you sprain an ankle, you're kind of off-balance a bit.

My dad and I actually don't speak anymore. It's still something that I'm trying to figure out and I definitely don't have all of the answers to.

War tore my family apart.

Sometimes all you're looking for is an apology.

Is there any pleasure in anger? Yes, if the fire of my anger appeases the ashes of my friends.

He didn't know that you could ache for a place, even when it had hurt you so badly.

Experiencing that intense emotion is what helps us, ultimately, accept that our mothers are gone.

But the fact is that she went away and left us all to cope with the wreckage she left behind.

This is a reactionary rage, often fueled by a sense of deprivation and a belief the world owes something to the daughter who lost her mother too young. But underneath it is usually a deep anger toward the mother herself.

how much of my life my mother's death would affect. And with the certainty of thirty-three years, I would tell her: everything. It affects everything. When a mother dies, a daughter grieves. And then her life moves on. She does, thankfully, feel happiness again. But the missing her, the wanting her, the wishing she were still here—I will not lie to you, although you probably already know. That part never ends.

The mother who abandoned her child or took her own life leaves a daughter with the most direct access route to anger--she left me--but even the mother who falls ill and dies can be an object of blame.

It's hard to understand how we can harbor negative feelings toward someone we love when the two appear to sit at such competing ends of the spectrum. But negative emotion does, which is why even daughters of abusive mothers need to mourn the loss.

some wounds aren't easy to see.

His own way to a sick man is what grass is to a sick dog.

quiet days, smells and noises that are like old tunes, healing nights…

Let mental suffering be intense enough, and it becomes a sort of carminative.

Songs were medicines long before herbs

Patience makes lighter what sorrow may not heal.

Why do you hasten to remove anything which hurts your eye, while if something affects your soul you postpone the cure until next year?

Y cuando sane y no tenga más delirio…¿me querrás todavía?

A la una de la mañana la ligera indigestión había desaparecido, y como pasa fatalmente con todos los matrimonios jóvenes que se han amado intensamente, una vez siquiera, la reconciliación llegó, tanto más efusiva cuanto hiriente fueron los agravios.

Stripe for stripe is human law; "by His stripes we are healed" is superhuman, the result of a legislation as gracious as it is divine.

Hatred is self-punishment.