Quotes About Healing

He knew ? and I knew ? that the only way to get over an illness is to make friends with disease. Not to fight mentally and lose in the inevitable depression that comes with any severe illness.

I closed my eyes, put blinders on, and ignored what was too painful to think about. I tried to view my troubles less seriously, and worry less. I tried to curb my temper. Things said in embarrassment and anger are seldom the truth, but are said to hurt and wound the other person. Once said, they can never be taken back.

I just broke up with my boyfriend, and I've been spending more time alone than I'd like.

Haven't you had enough past to let the future go?

We can develop habits that help us feel gratitude, contentment, and joy, without diminishing how desperately we miss our loved one.

GRIEF IS A BY-PRODUCT of love. Because we loved, so must we grieve when the person we love is no longer physically with us. But the fact that they've gone doesn't mean that we must stop loving them, or thinking about them. Coming to terms with this fact, understanding that your love for that person never dies, is a major advance in our understanding of grief.

some people very quickly develop a hunger for tools to help them cope with grief, and that there is nothing wrong with the desire for action—for what might be called proactive participation in the grieving process.

it will always be different, with your loss part of your new world and personal identity. But that doesn't mean you won't function effectively and meaningfully again, or fully embrace a life full of love and laughter, alongside plentiful memories of those who once stood beside you.

Everything happens for a reason. "Let me be crystal clear: If you've faced a tragedy and someone tells you in any way, shape, or form that your tragedy was meant to be, that it happened for a reason, that it will make you a better person, or that taking responsibility for it will fix it, you have every right to remove them from your life," writes blogger Tim Lawrence.

The return of migratory birds. The constellations of the sky. The shape of an oak leaf. The stripes of a badger. There is a soothing constancy to nature. And of course the transitory nature of the seasons – the changing trees, the behaviour of birds and animals, the turning of the globe, the cycle of life in one year – can also be a reminder that time passes and things heal.

What he did was wrong. He doesn't deserve your love. But he does deserve your forgiveness, because otherwise he will grow like a weed in your heart until it's choked and overrun. The only person who suffers, when you squirrel away all that hate, is you....forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Losing Chloe had been like reading a wonderfulook only to realize that all the pages past a certain point were blank.

You know, Michael, I used to sit around looking for a way to make sense of what happened, like there was some kind of answer I could find if I just looked hard enough. Then one day I realized that if there had been one, Dave would still be here. And I wondered if this...this feeling that I couldn't figure it all out...was what Dave had been feeling, too.

In the real world, you can't just turn a page and feel better.

I know what loose ends can do to a soul. The sooner she knows the truth, whatever it is, the sooner she can get on with her future.

Jenna lost her mother. I lost my credibility. Virgil lost his faith. We've all got missing pieces. But for a little while, I believed that, together, we might be whole.

A heart with so many stress fractures would never be anything but broken.

Lacy truly believed that when you asked a patient How do you feel?, what was wrong wasn't nearly as important as what was right.

But forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me. It's saying, You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future.

Joseph Obomsawin, the elder I lived with there, says that those who turn to animals do so because humans have let them down.

She lashed out because when you hurt someone else, you're less likely to feel your own pain.

The Japanese believe that it takes three generations to forget. Those who experience a trauma pass it along to their children and their grandchildren, and then the memory fades.

Loss is more than just death, and grief is the gray shape-shifter of emotion.

It does not matter who forgives you, if you're the one who can't forget.