Quotes About Healing

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.

And this load we carry—the anger, the fatigue, the resentment, and the deathly sense of compromise that is bound to our backs or held tightly in our clenched fists—it will still exist, but we won't have to carry it, because it belongs to the past or the future, and that's not where we'll be. We will experience more, and it will weigh less.

hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain

One of the hardest things about recovery is coming to terms with the fact that you can't trust your brain anymore.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

Will I be able to spare my heart while dissecting memories of the past?

Maybe—like what the guard said at the gate of the Sun Street—I should not pry open the bleeding wounds of the past. Maybe I should just try to keep my good old memories.

Holding on to offenses emotionally incarcerates us, but forgiveness is a key that liberates.

Restoring what has broken is a reminder to be careful with that is here now.

Hay un escritor llamado Clerk o Lewis que escribió sobre sí mismo tras la muerte de su mujer, y empezó diciendo: "Nadie me dijo nunca que la pena fuera una sensación tan parecida al miedo

Así que se olvida cuando se desea olvidar, cuando ya se está listo o cuando recordar no trae placer ni consuelo y es sólo una carga que no permite dar un paso, ni respirar siquiera

Holnaptól tudatosan törekszem rá, hogy ne élÅ' teremtmény, hanem csak emlék legyen számomra, még ha jó ideig pusztító emlék is. De türelem, eljön majd a nap, amikor már nem lesz így.

What you want the other person to say isn't "It was my fault," but rather "I understand that I hurt you and I'm sorry." The first statement is about judgment, the second about understanding.

If emotional pain or problems have cropped up in your life, you must insist on getting closure. Closure means you don't carry the problem or the pain. You address the issue, then you slam shut the book and put it away.

Forgiveness of those who have transgressed against you, or those you love, is not about them; it is about you. It is a gift to yourself.

The best cure for one's own grief and pain was worrying about the well-being of someone else.

Per tutti i mali ci sono due rimedi, il tempo e il silenzio

God doesn't want to overwhelm us with a lot of theology in order to receive our healing. He keeps it simple. Nonetheless, there is great power to be found in these simple and easily implemented truths. The first of them is to "draw near to God and He will draw near to you" (James 4:8).

There's no tragedy in life like the death of a child. Things never get back to the way they were.

If our perception of God's character is distorted due to our own experiences of life's disappointments and our own histories of trauma, then having an all-seeing and always-present God could be stifling and produce fear instead of love and trust.

Three professional experiences – one striking conclusion: Students grow in their faith through relationships, wounded people heal in relationships, and unbelievers come to the Lord through relationships.

It takes maturity and tenacity on our part to achieve wholeness, and that means persistently dealing with our pain.

Traumas not only cause injury and pain, traumas block or slow the process of maturity.