Quotes About Healing

Everyone's broken, one way or another.

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.

There's nothing worse than walking around and talking about your failed relationship, all day, every day, for months on end.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Forgiveness is unlocking the door to set someone free and realising you were the prisoner!

And the heart gets watered and recovers itself. There is hope, everywhere there is hope.

We find it difficult to forgive only because we like our sense of condemnation. We get a perverse and morbid enjoyment out of nursing our wounds. As long as we can condemn another, we can feel superior to him.

The person with emotional scars not only has a self-image of an unwanted, disliked, and incapable person, he also has an image of the world in which he lives as a hostile place.

Therapeutic forgiveness cuts out, eradicates, cancels, makes the wrong as if it had never been. Therapeutic forgiveness is like surgery.

The first time is always the hardest...getting your heartbroken. The first time–it's always coming from outer space. You never see it coming, but it will be easier next time.

I don't need more anger. I just want to move on...

Forgiveness is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

I was raped when I was very young. I told my brother the name of the person who had done it. Within a few days the man was killed. In my child's mind--seven and a half years old--I thought my voice had killed him. So I stopped talking for five years.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Sometimes forgiveness is the hardest thing to give, but the most cherished thing to receive.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

Trebalo bi ubijati prošlost sa svakim danom što se ugasi. Izbrisati je da ne postoji, da ne boli. Lakše bi se podnosio dan što traje, ne bi se merio onim što više ne postoji. Ovako se mešaju utvare i život, pa nema ni ?istog se?anja, ni ?istog života.

?uvala me, i pored svega, onakvog kakav sam bio u njenim snovima. ?arobnja?ki me sastavljala od razbijenih komada, možda i ne prime?uju?i pukotine

Oti?i ?u da te ne mrzim da mi postane svejedno. Rasuo sam tvoj lik po dalekim putevima razne?e ih vjetar i sprati kiše nadam se. U meni ?e ga potrti pozlijedenost.

Give me strength to forgive. Because he who forgives is the greatest. And I know I cannot forget.

Ne rekavši joj ništa, ni koliko su njene rije?i ljekovite, ni koliko me ohrabrila svojim povjerenjem bez razloga, zagrlio sam je nježno, kao nekad, prije sino?njeg doga?aja, bez strepnje i ustru?avanja, potpuno opran, oslobo?en, hrabro vedar.

Oti?i ?u, da te ne gledam, oti?i ?u, da ne mislim na izdaju. - Znaš li kako mi je bilo? Znaš li kako mi je i sad? Oti?i ?u, da te ne mrzim, da mi postane svejedno. Rasuo sam tvoj lik po dalekim putevima, raznije?e ga vjetrovi i sprati kiše, nadam se. U meni ?e ga potrti pozlije?enost.