Quotes About Healing

'E.T.' began with me trying to write a story about my parents' divorce.

I looked below and saw my people there, and all were well and happy except one, and he was lying like the dead - and that one was myself.

This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that are causing you to suffer.

is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.

if you have been assaulted by somebody you thought you could trust, how do you restore your sense of trust in the world or in people? And how do you trust yourself?

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines upon you

Simply by recounting their stories and breaking that silence, survivors of sexual assault strike a powerful blow against their assailants.

Several authors and editors I respect counseled me not to write the book as quickly as I did; they urged me to wait two or three years and put some distance between me and the expedition in order to gain some crucial perspective. Their advice was sound, but in the end I ignored it - mostly because what happened on the mountain was gnawing my guts out. I thought that writing the book might purge Everest from my life. It hasn't, of course.

When you forgive, you love. And when you love, God's light shines on you..

Traumatic memories have a number of unusual qualities. They are not encoded like the ordinary memories of adults in a verbal, linear narrative that is assimilated into an ongoing life story….[R]ather, they are encoded in the form of vivid sensations and images. It

I don't know that you ever get over this kind of loss. The fact that Chris is gone is a sharp hurt I feel every single day. It's really hard. Some days are better than others, but it's going to be hard every day for the rest of my life.

traumatized people find themselves reenacting some aspect of the trauma scene in disguised form, without realizing what they are doing….There

When you forgive, you love.

Thou seest, not only the stains and scars of past sins, but the mutilations, the deep cavities, the chronic disorders which they have left in my soul. Thou seest the innumerable living sins…living in their power and presence, their guilt, and their penalties, which clothe me….Yet Thou comest. Thou seest most perfectly….Yet Thou comest.

The capacity of music to reassure and to remind is one of its cardinal virtues.

Typing it was like cleaning a wound... I was picking all the grit and the smoke out of my mind.

You remain with the person you've just been yelling at until the resentments fizzle. That's how wounds heal.

She became my favorite scar.

He wanted this someone to see how much he hurt.

How could I have thought that I needed to cure myself in order to fit into the 'real' world? I didn't need curing, and the world didn't, either; the only thing that did need curing was my understanding of my place in it. Without that understanding - without a sense of belonging to the real world - it was impossible to thrive in an imagined one.

As one anthropologist pointed out to me, trauma is usually a group experience, so trauma recovery should be a group experience as well. But in our society it's not.

Weak people hold grudges, Mom. Strong people forgive.

We just went through a bad divorce. - Violent bad? Restraining-order bad? - No, no. Just emotionally painful. - OK, so an ordinary divorce.

Joey aveva sorriso con furia per impedirsi di piangere. La sua ferita gli sembrava strutturale, come se lui e suo padre avessero scelto le proprie idee politiche al solo scopo di odiarsi, e l'unico modo per uscirne fosse il distacco.