Quotes About Healing

Get over it. Let it go. The longer you stay attached to being vindicated, the longer they hang around in your consciousness, stinking up your life.

The moment you decide to forgive and let your negative feelings melt away, you are on the road to freedom.

We relive our worst moments over and over and over instead of letting them go, we pick at the emotional scabs and refuse to let the healing happen and the pain subside.

Forgiveness is all about taking care of you, not the person you need to forgive. It's about putting your desire to feel good before your desire to be right.

Forgiving isn't about being nice to them, it's about being nice to yourself.

So you see, he says softly, we are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

No," he said, "I have no sensation there." That was true, and it was the blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

You are such a young and childish country, believing that one can better understand the injuries of the past by wallowing in them and analyzing their causes. You do not know enough to understand that the only way to heal a wound is to leave it alone. To let sleeping dogs lie, as it were, rather than enthusiastically kicking them as

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does this is true, the word that sick in her throat was not save by shame.

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off . . .

blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

How could she tell him that we come to love those who save us?

Nothing is ever quite right, is it, after a parent dies? No matter how well things go, something always feels slightly off...

We are all ashamed in one way or another. Who among us is not stained by the past?

A bereavement club. You don't choose to join it; it's thrust upon you. And the members whose lives have been changed have more knowledge than those who aren't in it, but the price of belonging is so terribly high.

Time will fold over the past if you let it.

People laugh at me. Sometimes I know why, and sometimes I don't. But I can pretty much find humor in anything. That is a necessary part of life. I don't want to say laughter is healing, because it sounds corny, but it's a release.

Thirties. Go to therapy. Clean up all of the sh-t. Clean up all of the toxins and the noise. Understand who you are. Educate yourself on the self.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

They all had them, dark secrets of the soul. The only way to deal with them was to live, and forget.

When you lose someone you care about, it's hard to accept that the universe doesn't notice the huge void.

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

Giving feels good. It's a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.