Quotes About Healing

Since the goal of my programs is to show audiences how humor can both help them heal as well as deal with not-so-funny stuff, I decided to discuss the events of the previous week, the pain all of us were feeling, and how humor and some laughter might be beneficial.

When we are dealing with death we are constantly being dragged down by the event: Humor diverts our attention and lifts our sagging spirits.

Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.

In looking for humor, keep in mind this guideline: Sometimes it takes a little time to see the humor in your upsets you may not find something to laugh about immediately.

Love is a powerful force. It can heal wounds, bridge divides, and bring hope to the hopeless.

Forgiveness doesn't excuse someone's actions, but it releases us from the pain they caused.

Why did she feel like she was still broken?

Some people are permanently broken. Like Humpty Dumpty, no one can put you back together again. ...But I'm not broken. I'm exactly the way I want to be.

Music is one of the highest art forms there is. It can define a life, change a life, or even safe a life, in just three short minutes.

People say that time is a great healer. Which people? What are they talking about? I think some feelings you experience in your life are written in indelible ink and the best you can hope for is that they fade a little over the years.

Death itself is too big to take in, she already sees that; the loss comes at you instead in an infinite number of small installments that can never be paid off.

There's no time to hold grudges when you've seen how fragile things can really be.

I might have felt broken, but at the end of it all, I didn't allow myself to break.

And that, despite the fact that we'd broken up seven years prior and I'd been the one to finally—firmly and permanently—walk away from him and on toward Henry, his engagement and upcoming wedding still ate away at my emotional landscape, as if him avowing himself to another woman was somehow a blight, a pox on me.

When you lose your parents young, there is simply a blight on your psyche that becomes part of your being. Really,

Allison Winn Scotch

It's not like pain just evaporated, she considered. It needed to go somewhere, and maybe shards of it were still lying dormant inside of her, waiting for a resurrection.

The time for crying with your girlfriends about a broken heart is over chocolate ice cream and chick flicks—not stun guns and bulletproof vests.

Because even though the truth can set you free, that doesn't mean it won't be painful.

Sweetheart, when you lose someone, you lose a little bit of yourself, too. And that missing piece? Sometimes you have to lose the rest of yourself to find it.

There was a time that [my mother's death] would have made me cry, but that's the good thing about being dead inside, I guess. Dead people don't feel pain.

A trance healer in Bali, an eagle woman, asked me, 'What is freedom, madam?' She had a chained eagle, her ally in healing, and it broke my heart, those huge, folded wings. So I asked her why the eagle couldn't fly free, why it was chained. And then her eagle eyes dug into mine, and she asked, 'What is freedom, madam?

Entonces le toca aprender que la venganza nunca da, que siempre quita, y a medida que va pasando el tiempo, el rencor desdibujándose en la monótona grisura de los días sin emoción, los celos dejarán de morderla para tumbarse a sus pies como un perro saciado de su rabia, y empezará a soñar con él, dormida y sobre todo despierta, tal y como era cuando le conoció, tan joven, tan guapo, tan digno de su amor.

Porque jamás saldría indemne de aquella mirada, y jamás volvería a contemplar un fuego como el que alimentaba a aquellos ojos que ardían para herirme y para curarme a la vez.