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Quotes About Healing

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
~ Luther Burbank
Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness--this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain.
~ Unknown
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in that one word Love. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
~ Unknown
She begins to write to Pierre, a sort of laboratory notebook of grief.
~ Lydia Davis
Heart weeps. Head tries to help heart. Head tells heart how it is, again: You will lose the ones you love. They will all go. But even the earth will go, someday. Heart feels better, then. But the words of head do not remain long in the ears of heart. Heart is so new to this. I want them back, says heart. Head is all heart has. Help, head. Help heart.
~ Lydia Davis
The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
~ Lydia M. Child
The cure for all ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows and the crimes of humanity, all lie in the one word 'love.' It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.
~ Lydia Maria Child
Assim é melhor. Então você ainda gosta dele? Terá que esquecer, Virgínia. Amar a pessoa errada não é das melhores coisas que nos podem acontecer e acontece com tanta frequência. Dante se esqueceu desse círculo no seu inferno, o dos rejeitados.
~ Unknown
Quanto mais firo os que amo mais vou ferindo a mim mesma. Perco os outros e me perco, não é curioso isso? Marfa acha que só poderei me encontrar fazendo psicanálise. — Você vai se encontrar sem precisar dessas muletas, Raíza. Vai se salvar sem precisar de qualquer ajuda, estou certo disso. Um dia, de repente, dará consigo mesma e não se perderá nunca mais. Antes, terá que dar voltas e voltas até tomar o caminho certo, talvez demore um pouco.
~ Unknown
Dear Anyone Who Finds This, Do not blame the drugs.
~ Lynda Barry
i believe [images] are the soul's immune system and transit system.
~ Lynda Barry
Coming to terms with incest is not easy. Learning to be a survivor, not a victim, gives new meaning to life
~ Unknown
Many deeply hidden memories have come flooding back. The important message here though is that it is possible to heal and survive. Everyone has survived their own kind of emotional or mental trauma. We all have our inner fears and misreplaced feelings of guilt.
~ Unknown
One thing I have learned during these past few terrible years is that our grief and sorrow should be shared, not carried alone.
~ Lynn Austin
Depression, I've learned, is sometimes caused by anger that we keep locked up inside.
~ Lynn Austin
When you forgive someone, you make a choice to cancel the debt he owes you.
~ Lynn Austin
Once the sacrifice has burned into ashes on the altar, your sin is nothing but ashes, as well. The Holy One forgives us—and we have to believe it in faith. That means leaving our past in the past, not agonizing over it, not bringing it to life in your memory again and again. We must forget it the same way God does—'As far as the east is from the west.' That's how far in the past our sins will be.
~ Lynn Austin
Bitterness is one of the deadliest emotions we ever feel. You can't look forward when you're bitter, only backward—thinking about what you've lost, stuck in the past, despairing because it's gone. In the end, it devours all hope.
~ Lynn Austin
Besides re-arming myself with joy, I need to know the holes in my defenses, the places where I'm vulnerable and where the enemy has successfully attacked me before.
~ Lynn Austin
You have beautiful hair"... and she reached out to touch it, her bejeweled fingers gently caressing my head. A tear slipped down my cheek. I knew how the lepers felt when Jesus touched them and made them whole again.
~ Lynn Austin
Bitterness is like a weed. Remember how hard it always was to pull out thistles once they root? Remember how deep those roots grow, and how if you just snapped off the end of it, the plant would grow right back? You have to dig down deep inside. Let God search your heart. Let Him show you what's there and help you root out all that bitterness. Then you can pray for forgiveness.
~ Unknown
As Lynn began getting psychologically better, she took me to a variety of sites. She taught me how to read trail markers. In the end, Lynn's stories could not be denied. She was not only a victim, she wanted badly to heal. As her experiences were told and worked through, as she slowly began to come to grips with her past, the personalities within her have slowly begun to heal.
~ Unknown
I was just so lucky to have a wonderful life after a tough marriage.
~ Lynn Johnston
An apology is the superglue of life! It can repair just about anything!!
~ Lynn Johnston