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Quotes About Healing

Remember, many diseases can be cure with the power of the mind! - (Sailor Moon #1, page 68)
~ Naoko Takeuchi
There can always be healing, even if there is no cure.
~ Naomi Judd
There was a terrible pain in his voice; it reminded Halla of a wound hurt; she wanted suddenly to lick the hurt place with a soft warm, bear's tongue, to lick it clean and into a shape of healing. But there was no wound on him that could be seen, nothing she could do but lay a hand on his shoulder, uncertainly.
~ Naomi Mitchison
The only cure for grief, someone had once told her, was love.
~ Naomi Ragen
Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
that falling to pieces serves nobody. You can't help anyone else hold themselves together if you yourself are scattered to the wind.
~ Unknown
It just goes to show—killing your demons doesn't really end the torment. Real monsters leave behind damage. You can slay the beast a million times over—but the scars they inflict last forever.
~ Unknown
Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
~ Nastassja Kinski
I cannot say why, but the simple act of reading it aloud allows you to let go of it. Do not forget this. Believe me, it helps. At first it is a very scary thing to do.
~ Natalie Goldberg
That dead feeling hits hard and permeates the first year. It comes back to test you often in the following years, but if you get through the first year, then you know about it. It will never have the power to defeat you again.
~ Natalie Goldberg
TAKE A SUBJECT, a situation, a story that is hard for you to talk about, and write about it. Write slowly, evenly, in a measured way. Don't skip over any part of it. Stay in there. It might take you several days, a week, a month to write out the whole thing. Continue to work on it every day until it is finished.
~ Natalie Goldberg
Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.
~ Natalie Imbruglia
For a whole day I couldn't remember that Dad was dead. It was as if accepting his death would kill me, too. I lost my mind; I can admit it. If you don't go at least a little crazy when your favorite person dies, something is wrong with you.
~ Unknown
Waking, I am freighted with memory: my mother's last words spoken--after her death--in a dream: Do you know what it means to have a wound that never heals?
~ Natasha Trethewey
How can I see anything but this: how trauma lives in the sea of my body, awash in the waters of forgetting.
~ Natasha Trethewey
Only remember, if you don't find what you need... in this life it's permissible to forgive oneself too.
~ Nathan Englander
Each death was like a hook through my skin, pulling me always backward to that moment. Already I felt the strain of those deaths, those visions, tearing at the fabric of who and where and when I was.
~ Unknown
Hurting people, hurt people.
~ Unknown
He gets hurt by the smallest touch. It'll be okay, as long as there will finally be a day. Eventually, one day. It will be good if all our burdens would finally be released. I really hope you can do it. I hope you two can both live happily.
~ Natsuki Takaya
I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma
~ Natsuki Takaya
Momiji Sohma: Are you sure? Shigure said it hurt really bad. Hatori Sohma: Yes, well, I did that on purpose. Shigure Sohma: Oh, Ha'ri, you're killing me! Why would you be so cruel? Hatori Sohma: It seemed to be the only way to shut you up at the time.
~ Natsuki Takaya
Even if you've never experienced the wonderful things in life, only after something has been contaminated and marred will it become a beautiful thing. Pain can be healed with gentle care, darkness can be removed with sunlight. Don't underestimate the small things. Everything is significant.
~ Natsuki Takaya
We're not really...getting along...she always says I'm...that I'm no good. The things I do are always wrong. She says all these terrible things all the time.. and says it's for my own good. If I talk back, she only blows up at me...but if I stay quiet...I feel like a punching bag...
~ Natsuki Takaya
Because even the smallest of words can be the ones to hurt you, or save you.
~ Natsuki Takaya