Quotes About Healing

this was why fiction existed, as a way to look at the world without being broken by it.

Anger always leaves a large void behind it, into which a flood of sorrow pours instantly, and keeps on flowing like a great river, without beginning or end.

Gdyby tak mo?na odm?odzi? cz?owieka, jak drzewo. ?ci?? z niego z?e wspomnienia, zeskroba? ca?y ból, wszelkie rozczarowania, jak martw? tkank?; poobcina? b??dy, g?upie decyzje, pomy?ki, prze?wietli? my?li. I ?eby to mo?na by?o robi? po ka?dej zimie, ?eby si? w nowy rok wchodzi?o czystym i niewinnym. Wiadomo przecie? – która? z kolejnych zim nas zabije.

sometimes it happens that the souls of parents and children are fundamentally hostile to one another, and they meet in life in order to remedy this hostility.

If something hurts me, I erase it from my mental map. Places where I stumbled, fell, where I was struck down, cut to the quick, where things were painful—such places are simply not there any longer. This means I've gotten rid of several big cities and one whole province. Maybe someday I'll eliminate a country.

It's a complete mystery that every challenge triggers vital forces within us. I really did feel better—only my left leg was still racked with pain, like an electric current, so I was walking on it stiffly, as if it were a prosthesis. But once I had to move the ladder, I stopped worrying about my Ailments. I forgot about the pain.

He learned how to forget, and forgetting brought him relief.

Nature can do more than physicians.

Offences are easily pardoned where there is love at the bottom.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body.

Lloremos. ¡Ah! Lloremos purificantes lágrimas, hasta ver disolverse el odio, la mentira, y lograr algún día -sin los ojos lluviosos- volver a sonreírle a la vida que pasa.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience."

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

True forgiveness is when you can say, "Thank you for that experience.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

And I found that I can do it if I choose to - I can stay awake and let the sorrows of the world tear me apart and then allow the joys to put me back together different from before but whole once again.

I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

A wound not fully felt consumes from the inside. We must run very hard if we want to stay one step ahead of this pain. Exhausted, we try to bury it with drugs, alcohol, overwork, television, physical activity. We are a very creative species—we can use just about anything to anesthetize ourselves. But in doing so, we also remove ourselves from feeling the joy.

Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?

Love like you've never had your heart broken before.

Licking your wounds will not stop the bleeding, but applying pressure will.

Addiction is perhaps a sickness of the spirit.