Quotes About Healing

La pena va royendo el corazón humano lentamente. La gente cree a menudo que, moviéndose, podrá superarla.

The real battle of depression is between parts of the self. Depressed people are pulled under by shadows, ghosts, pieces of themselves that they can't integrate and can't let go. The harder they work, the more they do what they know how to do, the worse things get. When their loved ones try to help in the usual ways, the commonsense ways that only seem natural expressions of caring and concern, they get rejected.

So often the pain of our life is no more than a reminder to take our hand off the stove.

Forgiveness does not require us to close our eyes but rather to truly open them.

The only way to remove pain from death is to remove love from life.

Forgiveness is the key to the heart's shackles.

As we walk our individual life journeys, we pick up resentments and hurts, which attach themselves to our souls like burrs clinging to a hiker's socks. These stowaways may seem insignificant at first, but, over time, if we do not occasionally stop and shake them free, the accumulation becomes a burden to our souls.

Nothing heals the soul like chocolate," she said. "I just love chocolate. It's God's apology for broccoli.

They say that time heals all wounds. But even as wounds heal they leave scars, token reminders of the pain.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

Dwelling on him would make him a bigger part of my life than I want him to be.

To not extend forgiveness is to burn the bridge that we ourselves must cross.

I hope you can someday forgive me.' 'I forgive you now.

holding on to anger is like swallowing poison and hoping someone else will die.

Bad memories can attach themselves like barnacles to the hulls of our lives. And, like barnacles, they have a disproportionately large amount of drag.

We all got things under our skin. Everybody does. Like a glass sliver. Can't see nothin' there, but it works its way in deeper and gets to festerin' and hurts so that we're ready to just cut the whole thing out.

It takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.

Grief isn't a luxury; it's an appropriate response to loss. You don't just will it away. If you allow it to run its course, it will fade with time, but if you ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, it only gets worse.

Some people aren't meant to fight. They're meant to pick up the pieces.

We chain ourselves to those we don't forgive.

To forgive is to unlock the cage of another's folly to set ourselves free.

when faced with overwhelming loss and stress, a man must choose to live and find his own way through his broken heart.

True understanding often opens the door to forgiveness.

takes great courage to wear kindness as if one had never been hurt.