Quotes About Healing

He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he'd die himself, of the sorrow. He says he'd read that grief has a catabolic effect and he thought for sure it would take him right out, this immense and gnawing pain, that it would eat him alive from the inside out. But it didn't. It took a long time for him to shift things around so that he could still love and honor Nola but also love and honor life, but it happened. And it will happen to her.

Nothing helped until the day she took a tablet and pencil into the basement and moved the event out of her and onto paper, where it was reshaped into a kind of simple equation: loss equaled the need to love again, more.

Books educate and inspire, and they soothe souls -- like comfort food without the calories.

My mother lost too much and repaired herself in the only way she was able to repair herself. That in fact she is repairing herself, hour by hour.

I do not believe the loss of a child is something one ever overcomes. One puts on the faces one needs, but inside, one bleeds and bleeds.

Steven sits back in the booth, crosses his arms. "My wife was cremated." "Your wife…?" "She died when Maddy was two weeks old." "Oh, my. My goodness. That's a hard one. Boy, oh, boy. That must have been hard." "It never goes away. Never does." Arthur leans forward. "The pain, you mean?

He tells her that, when Nola first died, he thought he'd die himself, of the sorrow.

Healing hurts, but hurting heals.

I would try to find joy despite the necessary work of grieving, and I knew full well that work was exactly the right word to describe it. It was John's life that was over, not mine.

Well, I was just going to say that it seems one of the things you have to do in order to finally grow up is to let that what-my-parents-did-to-me stuff go.

Divorce is a series of internal earthquakes, that's what it is, one after the other.

a great many ills of adults might be cured by a nap or a good meal or a bit of timely reassurance.

sometimes grief made people eat a lot, grief and the realization that life really did come to an end.

her heart has opened.

It's all broken glass inside me, she once wrote in her journal, when she was in high school. I breathe, and I cut myself.

we) laughed. It was so good to laugh. I felt as though I too were reentering my legitimate self.

In a way, it is as if your refusal to forgive is too much a part of you for you to lose it. Who would you be without it? Not yourself.

I would like to step into the body of a woman whose insides don't feel as though they have been spending time against the fine side of a cheese grater.

Love purifies everything

You know, Arthur," his mother said, "in time, you will find that little bits of happiness will make their way inside you and stay there. One little thing, and then one thing more. And then you'll realize that you're okay. You'll be okay, son, I promise you. You'll never forget him and you'll never stop missing him. But you'll be okay. And for you to be okay doesn't take a single thing away from Frank.

When you love someone, it's never over,' Dr. Carruthers replied gently. 'You move on, because you have to, but you bring him in your heart.

Today there are so many people I would like to seek forgiveness from, but I don't know where most of them are anymore and my health prohibits me from leaving my home easily. For these people I offer up my daily torment of every kind of physical, spiritual, mental, and emotional suffering imaginable. Although I can never make things right by myself, I entrust these people to Our Lady, knowing that she can bring them peace and healing.

With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.