Quotes About Healing

I don't know a family that isn't touched by some sort of addiction.

You're in a combat zone one day. You come home, and then you have to readjust, and it takes a few days. We just sit in the house, hang with the family and then things get better.

I found strength in what hurt me. And in my family - that's my strength as well. I'm truly grateful to be hurt as many times as I have, because I'm happy!

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

Fantasy, at its best, is balm for the soul. But it is faulty logic to assume that balm is necessarily mind-numbing anesthesia.

Know this much:regret nothing.Each part of your journey is essential to the whole.The moment you are experiencing is as important as your destination.Ninetah, the Daskiny Healer in The Traveler

A road trip with your ancient mommy is just what you need after falling off a mountain and having your soul ripped out by your best friend.

The most important thing about being a father is being able to forgive yourself. If you don't forgive yourself, you're not going to forgive your kids, either.

My father just got out of the Betty Ford Clinic. He's in his 60s, and this was the first time he ever did anything like that.

I loved my parents... but that can never change the fact that my father's violence ruined my childhood.

My grandfather killed my father in my mind. I know he died of cancer-but it was because of what my grandfather did to him.

Somewhere, sometime I'd stopped expecting my father to father.

Bruises fade father, but the pain remains the same. And I still remember how you kept me so afraid.

I was sexually abused by my step father for years and years, and that caused scars you can't see. And we know many people have the kind of scars you can't see.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

My father's ashes are not yet interred.strangely, I find the fact that he isn't properly laid to rest helps me when I'm doingthis play.

I grew up not seeing my father, and it is a hole in my heart that will never heal.

I'm the kind of father I wanted my father to be. That may be the sweetest revenge.

But my father, a thief in many ways, had robbed me of my concentration.

In contrast to how my father treated me, I won't hit him, I won't call him evil, I'll give him affection, and I'll pay attention to him.

Grief, it seemed, was a physical place.

I had a very angry father and was disconnected from my family.

I would like to understand my father.

America had taken my father from me. And over most of the years of his illness, I gradually started feeling this support system from this country who-people grieving along with us.