Quotes About Healing

I always speak to myself no more myself but a colander draining the sound from this never-to-be-mentioned wound

rewinding and grieving rewinding and grieving

Sometimes you cry, Susie, even when someone you love has been gone a long time.

Never give up the search to have back what was lost too soon.

I think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.

Disabled people caring for each other can be a place of deep healing," says Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha in Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.

We don't draw loved ones into our lives coincidentally. They're there to shine a light on our unfinished emotional business, to reveal to us our deepest tendencies. And as my life is proving to me even now, those patterns appear time and again, often cleverly disguised. And they'll keep right on showing up until we're willing to truly look at them.

Dear Lord, can you take it away... This pain in my heart that follows me day by day, and at night it stalks me like the shadows on my wall.

When you don't speak the truth for years at a time, the words left unspoken slowly leak the air out of your connection. Even if, years later, you are ready to say what you couldn't earlier, the moment has passed. The details and circumstances have faded from memory, and yet the emotions linger.

When life forces you to face yourself, what awaits in the mirror is a gift: vulnerability. Your heart is pierced. You're broken open. You're hyperaware of what you're feeling.

In this pause, I suddenly saw something very clearly. Whatever it was I wanted from my mother was simply not there to be had. It was not her fault. And it was therefore not my fault that I was unable to elicit it.

She ached: oh, how she ached. Her soul was like one big bruise.

Joan once told me she thought compartmentalizing gets a bad rap—especially when it comes to people like us, who have been through something so traumatic; ignoring it for long periods of time can be a means of survival. When you've been through fire, you can't feel that burn every day, she explained. You have to go on with your life.

The hurt's the same. The wound never heals. The details never fade.

There was loss wherever she looked, even in the world of her imagination.

Good food is wise medicine.

Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

My heart is breaking," I tell him, and it's the truth. Your heart literally hurts when it's breaking. You can feel it, every beat another ache, and nothing you can do will stop it, either from beating or breaking.

Even a lifetime of grief is only a little while in light of Eternity.

But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.

Spring is the earth forgiving itself.)

Once she stopped to pluck a pink rhododendron flower that was just coming into bloom and took it back to the ward with her, twirling it in her hands.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

Humor does not diminish the pain - it makes the space around it get bigger.