Quotes About Healing

In every heart there should be one grief that is like a well in the desert.

We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

Lily's. As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch. What Lily craved was the darkness made by enfolding arms, the silence which is not solitude, but compassion holding its breath.

Soul is more bruisable than flesh, and Juila was wounded in every fiber of her spirit.

Reading, as he has explained to Trevelyan, is for him the purest imaginative therapy.

Time will have his little scar, But the wound won't last.

He oft finds med'cine who his grief imparts But double grief afflicts concealing harts

Oftimes it haps, that sorrowes of the mynd Find remedie vnsought, which seeking cannot fynd.

it was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be shed.

A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks his own finger, rubs the blood onto the scab, smears it all over the patient

pouring her troubles out in order for her daughter to know the deep things, the wounds she had to bear:

motherless mothers with their skinless mysteries.

Sviatopolk tenía la impresión de que ya no podía seguir odiando, pues el odio que se había nutrido con él año tras año, impulsándolo hacia delante como un cruel jinete que hinca las espuelas en los flancos de su caballo, había acabado por agotarlo.

experience of love is that you get excited thinking that someone can mend your broken heart, and then you get angry when you realize that they can't. A certain economy creeps into the process and the jewelled daggers that used to pierce one's heart are replaced by ever-blunter penknives.

Edward St. Aubyn

It is as if we want to believe the lie. Perhaps we blame ourselves because in a strange way it helps us feel as if we have more control. If we are responsible for whatever went wrong, for whatever hurt us, we might be able to figure out how to keep it from happening again.

Love breaks the hold of individualism; it builds new communities out of the ashes of broken and fragmented relationships.

Shame is not a mirage. It is very real. A sexually violated woman feels contaminated by what has been done to her, and she really is contaminated. A person who has lived with rejection can't neutralize it with happy thoughts. Shame is like dirt. No matter how it happened, you are a mess and something has to be done about it. When you are dirty, there is no feel-as-if about it.

Only people who know they have burdens can be delivered from them.

The first steps out of shame will be the hardest. These are the anti-denial steps in which we will put shame into words. You can't do battle with something nameless, and too often shame eludes accurate identification. So we will search for words that bring shame out into the open, where it can be seen and fought against.

The cure for shame will always be found in how we become connected to God.

a lingering sense that something was very wrong with him. That sense is called shame.

If addictions are really as prevalent as they seem, we would think that Scripture would be preoccupied with this struggle. And it is.

Shame can be removed, and you can still be you. Despite your feeling that your destiny and shame's destiny are identical—that if shame no longer exists, you won't either—the reality is that you will be more you without shame.