Quotes About Healing

Ah!- diceva poi tra sè don Abbondio, tornato a casa: - se la peste facesse sempre e per tutto le cose in questa maniera, sarebbe proprio peccato il dirne male; quasi quasi ce ne vorrebbe una, ogni generazione; e si potrebbe stare a patti d'averla; ma guarire, ve'. -

When sad she brings the thunder And her tears, they bring the rain When ill she feeds a poison To us all to fell her pain Her smiles they bring the sunshine And the laughter and the wind And the birds they go on singing And the world is whole again. "Smile, sweet Sunday," Wednesday whispered in her ear. "The birds need your love so they can lift their wings.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

We only keep the scars we choose to keep

Doctors sometimes joke that if patients get good medical care, they will recover from the flu in a week. Without help, they'll need seven days.

The word felt good, liberating. So, I repeat it. "Fuck." Then, again. And again. Because it made me someone else, someone normal and happy, someone who used words like that, like St. John. I repeated it, over and over until she walked away, wounded. Then, I was glad. And still, I kept repeating it, because that was the only thing that kept me from crying.

I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal; love leaves a memory no one can steal.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises

Maybe it's a way for you to be that knight in shining armor who comes to the rescue—the one who never came to your rescue as a child." Maggie

There are so many . . . who carry the violence, who keep moving forward enshrouded in its aftermath. Yet there doesn't seem to be any sense of urgency, especially among the rest of us.

This is grief. You feel ripped in half. Half of you wanting to retreat, to disappear, to find a place where no one asks questions. And then there's the part of you that wants to remember, has to remember because if you don't, not only will the day cease to exist but so will the reality of that moment.

Whenever possible, he fought against the idea of collective guilt, even though it was an unpopular stand immediately after the war.

For it was while Jesus was at home "in His own city," as Capernaum came to be called, that the palsied man was brought to Him to be healed; and from all the evangelists we learn that it was on His way out from the house where that miracle was wrought that He saw Matthew, and spoke to him the word, "Follow Me.

it felt healing to be pressed against him. As if some wound he never knew he had healed itself more each time they touched.

Stories about the most difficult things need to provide catharsis, or the reader will stop reading, or go mad.

I was spelling out a message that would allow me to talk to myself and to others. The novel that emerged was about things I could not speak of in life, in some cases literally. I would lie, or I would feel a weight on my chest as if someone was sitting there. But when the novel was done, I could read from it. A prosthetic voice.

Nature can be so soothing to the tormented mind

Happiness is the consciousness of growth. [...] If my definition has validity, it suggests that most people come to therapy because they sense their growth has been arrested. Certainly many patients look to therapy to reinstitute the growth process. (33)

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

You will stay in therapy as long as you feel it is worth the time, effort and money you invest.

Crying is the most primitive mechanism the body has to relieve tension and pain.

Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.

Such a loss is devastating to a young child unless there is a replacement.