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Quotes About Healing

I am iron butterfly ... / I am she/we / of flesh / and iron / and silk wings, / healing, flying / into a gentle blue sky.
~ Janice Mirikitani
Only reckless confidence in a Source greater than ourselves can empower us to forgive the woulds inflicted by others.
~ Brennan Manning
It is so hard that one cannot really have confidence in doctors and yet cannot do without them.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Don't hold yourself back because you're afraid or because you've been hurt...acknowle dge your fear, accept it, and walk through it with confidence.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
Maybe being broken helps you become a better person.
~ Paige Rawl, Positive: A Memoir
Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
~ Tori Amos
You should not suffer the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.
~ Eva Jessye
Books can lift our spirits, heal our wounds, steel our courage and strengthen our religious resolve.
~ Scott Cunningham
Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.
~ Adeline Yen Mah
Hope awakens courage. He who can implant courage in the human soul is the best physician.
~ Unknown
One Child's courage to survive.
~ Dave Pelzer
Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.
~ Lynda Cheldelin Fell
When my dad died a lot of songs came, and they're still coming.
~ Rosanne Cash
They needed to grieve alone was what Tibby's dad said. Lena wondered if really there was any choice in that. Everyone grieved alone.
~ Ann Brashares
Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.
~ Ronnie Shakes
Each of us has his own rhythm of suffering.
~ Roland Barthes
Grief is itself a medicine.
~ William Cowper
Nothing on earth can make up for the loss of one who has loved you.
~ Selma Lagerlöf
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
~ J. B. Priestley
Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.
~ Dodie Smith
My manuscripts sleep, while I cannot, for I am covered with poultices.
~ Frederic Chopin
The death of a beloved is an amputation.
~ C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed
I write and that way rid myself of me and then at last I can rest.
~ Clarice Lispector
Here is one of the worst things about having someone you love die: It happens again every single morning.
~ Unknown