Quotes About Healing

Tell yourself you're dead, the way Matt does, so the past can't hurt you.

Fighting tricks you into believing you can change the past, even when the past is dead and gone and all of it ashes.

How could you get past a splinter that had worked into your eye and scratched deeper every time you blinked?

Era inútil, mis oraciones se sentían vacías. Había comenzado una guerra en mi alma, y ya no podía seguir orándole a un Dios de amor con el corazón lleno de odio.

Por favor, Señor, abre mi corazón y enséñame a perdonar. No soy lo suficientemente fuerte como para aniquilar mi odio: nos han hecho demasiado daño; mi odio es muy pesado y podría aplastarme. Toca mi corazón, Señor, y enséñame a perdonar.

I knew that my heart and mind would always be tempted to feel anger--to find blame and hate. But I resolved that when the negative feelings came upon me, I wouldn't wait for them to grow or fester. I would always turn immediately to the Source of all true power: I would turn to God and let His love and forgiveness protect and save me.

This is the same power that I feel propelling me forward into the next phase of my life. God saved my soul and spared my life for a reason: He left me to tell my story to others and show as many people as possible the healing power of His love and forgiveness.

The more I prayed, the more aware I became that, in order to receive God's true blessing, my heart had to be ready to receive His love. But how could He enter my heart when it was holding so much anger and hatred?

Everybody says / time heals everything. / But what of the wretched hollow? / The endless in between?

A mother who tries to console her broken heart by fancying her departed child absent on his wonted chase after the dragon-fly, hums, How far to-day in chase, I wonder, Has gone my hunter of the dragon-fly!

That's what you really need is self-love. That's the answer to a lot of problems.

The pain is sometimes preferable to the treatment

There are so many much bigger realities that bring pain and anger that I've learned to seek out small joys every day. It is one of the greatest forms of self-defense that I know. My

Yesterday I felt like shit, so I rode my bike around town and repeatedly grafittied "The revolution is not being televised" in paint pen. It was a "pointless" action, but it nonetheless healed me to do this. It was an act of love for that "hooligan" Arundhati Roy. It was an act of self-love. I don't expect it to change the world, but on the other hand, I know it will.

We tend to hold that popping medicine in our mouths and swallowing is the extent of our involvement in the healing process. We believe that if we get better, it's because the medicine worked magic, not the person.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together.

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~ Buddha

Relationships are like glass. Sometimes it's better to leave them broken than try to hurt yourself putting it back together. - Author Unknown

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break." ? William

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

But a week later she knew she had. And so she told herself it didn't matter, that she'd been foolish to think anything would come of it. The sooner she stopped thinking about him, the better off she'd be.

presence. "Just let it out, honey. You've been carrying this around for too long. It's okay to let go.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you." ?Rumi