Quotes About Healing

If I'm sad and feel like crying, I come to the swimming pool because if I cried at home, I'd cry and cry and be depressed for three days and three nights and then I couldn't stand it and I'd swallow a load of sleeping pills. Or drive east to the sea and just keep going straight into the water. Or walk off the edge of a clidd. So, I come here instead where there's so much water already I can weep in peace.

No one likes crying, but tears water our souls.

Writing is a kind of repository and can help create a space for the accommodation of new thoughts and feelings. If you don't write these stories down, your heart will be filled up and broken by them.

No one like crying, but tears water our souls. So, perhaps my thanks should be to allow you to cry for the Chinese women in my books...

It was as if a tiny crack had opened somewhere in him and was growing, tearing him to pieces. If he had simply been angry, I might have found a way to calm him, but I had no idea how to put him back together once he came apart.

the sound of his voice could wash away the sour feeling in my stomach.

unable to rid herself of her memories. Poor thing.

Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.

Only the wounded healer can truly heal.

One should always look at the sea. It's a mirror that can't lie. Among other things, looking at it has taught me to stop looking behind me. Before, every time I looked over my shoulder, I found my old sorrows and my old ghosts, still intact. They were preventing me from regaining my taste for living. Do you understand what I mean? They were spoiling my chances of rising from my ashes.

Pain is inevitable... Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What matters is how we move forward afterward. Do we keep carrying the trauma and its causes in our mind? Or can we find a way to let go of them, to end our own suffering?...This is where mindfulness can help us.

There's nothing like a good, long sleep to allow unpleasantness to recede into the past.

In the Dharma, there is no place for guilt. Guilt is useless. It is pointless to feel bad about something in the past that we can't change. But regret? Yes. This is more useful. Do you both feel sincere regret for what you did?

It is to heal the body, soothe the mind, and give joy to the heart, Because it is your beloved's lap that you are sitting on.

Pain is inevitable," the Dalai Lama continued. "Suffering is optional. We will all have to endure trauma and challenges. What matters is how we move forward afterward. Do we keep carrying the trauma and its causes in our mind? Or can we find a way to let go of them, to end our own suffering?

We also need to think about the impact on others. When we say hurtful things we don't really mean, we can create deep wounds that can't be healed. Think of all the rifts between friends and within families, divisions that have led to a complete breakdown in the relationship, all because of a single angry outburst.

thinking about the past, especially going over bad things that have happened in our minds again and again, serves no purpose.

We can turn our suffering into the cause of extraordinary growth.

Suppression is never a permanent fix.

Since then I had come to learn that my unhappiness had been inflicted not by Chogyal but, unintentionally, by myself. By wallowing in my own nostalgic memories, spending so much time thinking about a relationship that had moved on, I had been needlessly carrying pain. Suffering.

The world is full of healing; you just got to know where to look.

Like I said, I'm fine. I don't ever think of her.' And I didn't ever think of her, except from time to time.

There is a point in the future where even the worst disaster starts to settle into an anecdote.

But Dexter blinked hard, shook his head then nudged her hand with his. 'So what I thought we'd do for the next couple of days is, you can show me the sights, and I'll just mope about and make stupid remarks.' She smiled and nudged his hand back. 'It's hardly surprising what you've been through, are going through,' and she covered his hand with her own.