Quotes About Healing

Don't carry the bruises or pass on bruises.

We carry our wounds and perhaps even worse, our capacity to wound, forward with us. If we learn not only to tell our stories but to listen to what our stories tell us ... we are doing the work of memory.

Time, we like to say, cures all. But maybe the old saying doesn't mean time heals. Time cures a secret in its brine, keeping it and finally, paradoxically, destroying it. Nothing is left in that salt solution but the pain or rage, the biting shame that lodged it there. Even they are diluted or denied.

I only know it takes weeks to recover, as if one had been in a car accident.

Psychotherapy isn't a twentieth-century artifice imposed on nature, but the reinstatement of a natural healing process.

I have been beaten here, locked away, violated a hundred times and a hundred times more. I have been starved and cheated, tricked and disgraced. How odd it is that I am undone by the simple kindness of a small boy with a yellow pencil.

Hey, S.T.," Sydney says finally. I don't budge. She nudges me with her elbow. "You want to know something?" I still can't look up. But I nod. "It's not your fault either." She says this like it's not big deal. Like it's nothing. But it's everything.

The way you turn a sad story around, you should be a comedian! You're the funniest person I know.

Physically, mentally, emotionally -- it seems like every part of me is broken in one way or another.

A lot of pilgrims run a needle with thread through their blisters. They pull the thread through until it hangs out both entry points and then cut it, leaving two to three inches of thread hanging out, which supposedly allows the blister to drain.

I worry sometimes that we're apt to confuse forgiveness with forgetfulness. The potency of forgiveness comes precisely from the fact that it must be done while being goaded by an unhappy memory.

You don't get over sorrow; you work your way right to the centre of it.

Since the affliction was so plainly psychosomatic, the worst thing she could do was to give it space for thought.

En el espíritu de Jung, la actitud más útil y curativa a adoptar cuando se trata de la sombra es una de amor y aceptación. Sé curioso pero amable. Tu objetivo al identificar la (posible) sombra de alguien no es atraparlos, hacer que se les acerque o descubrir un botón que puedas presionar para tu propio beneficio.

Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.

In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.

No hay mejor sistema para que se desvanezcan los fantasmas que mirarles a los ojos.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.

I did not come to heal her, the monster said. I came to heal you.

Belief is half of all healing.

He was greedy and rude and bitter, but he was still a healer. The parson, though, what was he? He was nothing . Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits. And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters.

Maybe hearts don't ever stop breaking once broken.

Belief is half of healing.