Quotes About Healing

You can have compassion without forgiving. There are many ways to move on and pretending to feel a certain way isn't one of them.

This was grief: You laugh. You cry. Repeat.

Maybe you can let yourself cry too.

Sitting-with-you-in-your-pain is one of the rare experiences that people get in the protected space of a therapy room,

Often people talk about suicide not because they want to be dead but because they want to end their pain.

You're going to have to feel pain—everyone feels pain at times—but you don't have to suffer so much.

If, however, your childhood ruptures didn't come with loving repairs, it will take some practice for you to tolerate the ruptures, to stop believing that every rupture signals the end, and to trust that even if a relationship doesn't work out, you will survive that rupture too.

Therapists talk a lot about how the past informs the present—how our histories affect the ways we think, feel, and behave and how at some point in our lives, we have to let go of the fantasy of creating a better past. If we don't accept the notion that there's no redo, much as we try to get our parents or siblings or partners to fix what happened years ago, our pasts will keep us stuck.

A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves. —Simone Well

To get through the night, I sometimes imagined the sky filled with a canopy of stars. I imagined that each star contained the soul of a girl or boy who had died too young, and the light the stars gave off was their brightness.

As I listen to the stories about those who suffered and ended their lives it seems to me that it isn't as if they wanted to die, but more that they wished to feel better and didn't know how.

Just like children, emotions heal when they are heard and validated.

An attitude of gratitude goes a long way when it comes to physical and emotional healing.

I know it can be very uncomfortable for a healthy person to try to communicate with someone who has had a stroke, but I needed my visitors to bring me their positive energy. Since conversation is obviously out of the question, I appreciated when people came in for just a few minutes, took my hands in theirs, and shared softly and slowly how they were doing, what they were thinking, and how they believed in my ability to recover.

Grief made you selfish; engulfed as you were in your own pain, it was hard to remember the others were suffering too.

Was it cathartic or a form of self-torture?

When she doesn't want to think about something sad or hurtful, she does what she instructed her own children and those she taught to do: Close your eyes and go somewhere safe and good. Picture something good.

Looking at him, she saw her future and felt all the ragged tears in her heart heal themselves. I fit, she whispered in marvel, stepping into him. I fit with you. He nodded and wrapped his arms around her. Perfectly

I really am all sorts of messed up… Well you're not alone there.

Some people aren't meant to stay in your life. But, that doesn't mean you can't carry a piece of them in your heart.

Feel free to kiss it better.

Apparently some things, like Cheetos finger stains and the searing pain of grief, couldn't be fixed.

If you don't leave your past in the past, it'll destroy your future. You've got to live for what today's offering, not for what yesterday took away from you.

She was going to eat warm, buttered bread and feel better.