Quotes About Healing

Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.

We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.

Maybe being winged means being wounded by infinity.

We both have some shattered edges," he whispered. "But maybe God isn't afraid of our brokenness. I hope he's not, anyway.

Forgiveness isn't reserved for the ones who deserve it. God gives it freely, and we should do the same. The one person you can set free from bitterness is you. The fact that your dad apologized is amazing. But even if he hadn't, at some point you're going to have to let go of your anger or you'll end up just like him, hurting the people you're supposed to love.

We both have some shattered edges," he whispered. "But maybe God isn't afraid of our brokenness."~Eli

Maybe that's why she loved him. Because she saw he own brokenness reflected in him, and it didn't scare her anymore. ~Violet

Maybe God doesn't always fix what's shattered. But he can make something new and beautiful out of what's been broken." ~Violet

sometimes in the midst of the worst pain, it's hard to hear the truth. Sometimes when the pain is too loud, all we can hear is the person crying with us. And that sounds a lot like love.

It appears that very few women can just move through the end of a friendship, without a struggle. Most appear to need to consciously put together a game plan to recover from the breakup and help them to move on. Terry Miller Shannon, a journalist, writes in an article titled "Friends Forever?": "If you're not the one ending the friendship, it feels like an elephant stomped your heart into a billion bleeding pieces.

Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of consolation; if hurt, the possibility of healing; and above all, the curative power of hope. If fantasy speaks to us as we are, it also speaks to us as we might be.

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.

It's only by facing things that you ever put them behind you. -Mrs. McConnell to Susan

He wept, and it felt as if the tears were cleansing him, as if his body needed to empty itself.

When Ben and I split up at the moment when I thought we were committing to each other forever, it was my first real heartbreak, it felt like my heart had been torn out of my chest.

Letting go is the best revenge. It frees your heart for much more satisfying pursuits.

An injury is much sooner forgotten than an insult.

I have a lot of -- I struggle with a lot of shame over my past. There have been times when I've been incredibly embarrassed about the things that happened to me. I don't think that there is one human being in this world that would wish, you know, to be injured as a kid the way -- in ways that I was.

Hatred is the greatest cancer that we must squash.

appeared fierce, but Oscar decided this was due more to the fact that his face was still cut and swollen from

sometimes people are broken and don't know how to mend because they aren't able to say what they need or deeply want. Sometimes you get to a point in life where you realize you've made a terrible mistake and you desperately need to fix it, but it's so deep and bitterly ingrained you can't start.

got treatment. I worked hard—I did the work. I got well again, Arwen. I was a child. Twelve. I was confused, unwell, and I'd come under the spell of a twisted, Charles Manson–like young man. A Paul Bernardo.

Forgiveness is about freeing yourself from anger that can be crippling.

us down? Does understanding help us heal? I don't think anything really heals trauma. You just find some kind of narrative to learn to cohabit with it.