Quotes About Healing

Forgetting is the precious balm that helps us to travel on, past the depredations of memory.

When the person you love has died, any indication that they once lived is received gratefully, or alternatively, you want to pretend that nothing good has ever taken place in the world.

She grew not on the land so much as out of it, like cottonwoods and bear grass. Each fall a part of her collapsed and withered alongside the wildflowers and grapevines she loved and used for healing. Each spring some new part of her erupted just as the mallows and poppies did, spreading her toes like roots in the truth and sustenance of ground, while branching out to the rest of the living world and stretching upwards towards the light.

Violet heard the coughing and came running back. She sank down on the bench beside Rose, putting her arm around the older girl and holding a handkerchief to Rose's lips. "What happened?" she asked Galen, her tone just shy of being accusatory. "I am so sorry, Your Highness," Galen said, backing away. "I made her laugh, and–" "You made her laugh?" Violet's eyes widened. "She hasn't laughed in weeks!" She smiled at Galen and gave Rose's shoulders a little squeeze.

My dad used to flush my mother's head down the toilet. I was so screwed up.

When your heart is beating too quick with nerves, there's nothing like the rhythm of a poem to bring it right again. When you fill your mind with words - beautiful words, stirring words- those words drive away your other worries.

This book is for everyone who has survived. You are not broken. You can love and be loved, despite what may feel like the eternally brutal nature of the world. Even when you're drowning and so far under, there is always time to reach for someone who will teach you how to breathe again.

It's smart to end relationships that are poisonous. It's a good thing. Sometimes you have to cut people out of your life to make things better. So you can move forward.

Every tear should live its purpose. Don't ever wipe the reason away.

But I can tell you that plastic surgery does not cure what's inside.

The therapist came and hesitated in the doorway like the exorcist coming to cast out the demons.

For the next two years, singing was the only time I didn't stutter. I sang for everything I wanted, like some Disney princess making a wish.

That my husband stopped drinking with me was powerfully romantic, even if Hallmark doesn't have a card for it. Or maybe they do. It saved our marriage, or at least saved us from the stupid fights that didn't need to happen. Things said that didn't deserve to be said because it was the alcohol talking, not the heart.

We found out early that we were having a girl, and I was thrilled. My wish had come true. When I was pregnant with Maxwell, every sad thing in my life was forgotten or put into a healthy perspective. I know that was so much to put on her, but I couldn't help it. She saved me from all the worries, all the overthinking, all the dwelling on the past.

Some people's lives seem to flow in a narrative; mine had many stops and starts. That's what trauma does. It interrupts the plot. You can't process it because it doesn't fit with what came before or what comes afterwards.

After a series of traumas, one can lose the capacity to feel fear appropriately.

But in the mountains, I was forgiven. And my dad was forgiven, too.

the psychoanalyst is cured by his patient—provided they do not treat each other as objects, but are related to each other genuinely and productively.

Du bist noch krank, meinte Fabian Du hast sie noch lieb. Das ist wahr, sagte Labude. Aber ich bin schon mit ganz anderen Kerlen fertiggeworden als mit mir.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

Erst das Lazarett zeigt, was der Krieg ist.

And this I know: all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

?ovek gubi hrabrost. Veruje da se može navi?i na razo?aranja. To nije ta?no. Ona svaki put sve više bole tako da se ?ovek uplaši. To je kao da se svaki put više ope?e. I svaki put sporije zarasta. Ne želim da se još koji put ope?em.

M?su nol?d?t? atmi?a ir siets. T? grib izdz?vot. Un izdz?vot var tikai aizmirstot.