Quotes About Healing

Transcend your abuse and transform it into a source of courage, creativity and compassion.

Revenge is not worthy of you. If you concentrate on revenge, you will keep those wounds fresh that would otherwise have healed.

When you lose someone, they take a bigger place in your heart, not a smaller one. Every day it grows, because you don't stop loving them. You wish you could talk to them. You need their advice. But life doesn't always give us what we need, and it's difficult.

all of us bearing wounds from our past that we no longer felt obligated to conceal because we had one another.

You can't get past pain without going through it,

You have to remember that your mother is unaware of what she's done and always will be," Margot continued. "If you're waiting for an apology or gratitude, don't. You have hard work ahead. You need to forgive her and move on. Happiness is a choice that you have to make for yourself.

When someone tells me a piece of the truth which has been withheld from me, and which I needed in order to see my life more clearly, it may bring acute pain, but it can flood me with a cold, sea-sharp wash of relief.

Piece by piece I seemto re-enter the world.

These scars bear witness but whether to repair or to destruction I no longer know.

I write for the still-fragmented parts in me, trying to bring them together. Whoever can read and use any of this, I write for them as well.

The problem, unstated until now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured ungrieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of anyone's body with the pain of the world's body.

For every bandaged wound I'll scrape another   open

The avoidance of pain - physical or psychic - is a dangerous mechanism, which can cause us to lose touch not just with our painful sensations but with ourselves.

The woman who cherished her suffering is dead. I am her descendant. I love the scar-tissue she handed on to me, but I want to go on from here with you fighting the temptation to make a career of pain.

When it comes to music, something I'm passionate about, and knowing the reach and the power and how it transforms, it saves lives. Music does.

Forget the past.

I get a little heated when I talk about the past. But I wanted to be clear - I'm not mad at anybody - not anymore.

I don't want to carry the burden of the past with me.

I want to write music based on my life, my past experiences and heartbreaks.

There's no one way to grieve, and there's no one path.

Heartbreak can be so pathetic.

Patience, time, love, it heals all.

Just like you can't cure a patient without listening to what he's feeling, you can't cure a nation without hearing what the people are really asking for.

In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself.