Quotes About Healing

he's beginning to understand that grief doesn't strike bargains. There's no way of avoiding the agony—or even of getting through it faster. It's got him in its claws and it won't let go till he's learnt every lesson it has to teach.

I could bear the memory, but I could not bear the music that made the memory such a killing thing.

The men in the nearby village fear us, thinking we are witches. Women who live without men—especially old women who grow herbs, heal the sick, and befriend wild animals—are always suspect.

Something in me that was broken, cracked—becomes whole. The cracks, if I write them with utter honesty, are where "the light gets in." The present meets the past, and healing begins.

Please live a healthy life - medicine is an imperfect science.

Don't feel like a failure if you can't make a social butterfly out of the dog you rescued from a nightmarish beginning. Giving him a kind, loving home and helping him to relax enough to nap in your lap are achievements in their own right. If you can manage them, you deserve much more than a blue ribbon and a silver chalice. However

Sometimes broken people stay broken.

My old pastor liked to say that church is a hospital for the sick, not a mausoleum for the saints.

If I let them all treat me like I was broken, then how was I going to convince myself I wasn't?

It'll take years of therapy. Probably for all of us: a long uphill battle. But we're still on the field fighting the good fight, battered and beaten though we are, and I understand just what a great gift that is.

Some wounds need to be pricked so they can drain. Others just need to be left alone.

We know," she whispered to him. "We who have been hurt, we know what evil looks like. We know you make us safe.

This frail cloth, a gift to the person he had once been, was his touchstone, a reminder that once he had been whole. Once there had been joy.

Your ghosts cannot have you, Charles. So exorcize them before I have to.

Who hurt you?" she asked, slicing through the two other conversations going on at the table. "He's dead," said Charles, his hand sliding up Anna's back reassuringly. "I killed him. If I could, I would bring him back to life so I could kill him again.

Heartbreak can be like that, boy," said Zee heavily. "Healthy pain invites healing.

This coyote is all better right now. Are you and I going to be friends, wolf?

He laughed as he bled down his shirt, and I babbled apologies. He let his head fall back against the truck door with a thump. "Leave off, Mercy. It'll close up quick enough on its own." I backed up until I was sitting beside him—half-laughing myself, because although it probably hurt quite a bit, he was right that his injury would heal in a few minutes. It was minor, and

Whether those lives are a couple of decades or a couple of centuries long, living means that we get hurt, and some of those wounds don't heal or they don't heal completely.

Samuel just feels that he no longer belongs, that he accomplishes nothing by his existence. Even the Omega cannot fix him.

Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he'll be a good man. Not all relationships that end

As long as this child within is not allowed to become aware of what happened to him or her, a part of his or her emotional life will remain frozen, and sensitivity to the humiliations of childhood will therefore be dulled.

Imagine a world where no child grows up in chaos, rage, verbal or physical assaults, or deprivation. As humanity becomes increasingly conscious of the need to protect our earth from assaults upon its resources and atmosphere, we also move collectively toward the understanding that assaults upon the human psyche must end. Awareness is required and healing is the outcome.

By recognizing the abuse for what it is, the partner dispels the