Quotes About Healing

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

In my own life, I have found grief to be enormously distorting, particularly if it's sudden or extreme in nature.

I sang with my father for over 50 years, and now all of a sudden he's gone, and I just dropped out.

But the thing about grief is that it doesnt have a timescale. So I can sit here today and say to you that its got easier in some ways, and then all of a sudden itll just hit you so hard all over again, and you dont know where it comes from.

When I fell in love, all the shame and guilt I carried with me for years suddenly vanished.

One day, right after my mastectomy, I went for a walk in Central Park, and there was this mob of people blocking the road. I thought, 'Oh, great, now I'm stuck!' but then I suddenly realized that it was a breast cancer walk.

My daughter, Grace, was not killed by a gun. She died suddenly at age 5 from a virulent form of strep. As I stood stunned in a church at her memorial, one of the hardest things I heard someone say was, 'I'm going to go home and hug my child a little tighter.' 'Well, good for you,' I thought. 'I'm going to go home and scream.'

Compassionate listening is to help the other side suffer less. If we realize that other people are the same people as we are, we are no longer angry at them.

I suffer from deep depression, so my only release is music.

Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it's a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.

I was depressed for a year after 'The Pianist,' and I don't suffer from that, generally. It wasn't just a depression; it was a mourning.

When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it's the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don't have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.

I asked why me? Why did I have to suffer so much pain and scars? I was just a little girl - I didn't do anything wrong.

As I tried to put the pieces of my life and that of my children back together, I returned to my very public job, but continued to suffer in private.

Years ago I watched my 1st wife suffer through cancer and she went to be with Jesus.

In the picture, I am crying from pain. Now, I cry for peace. I don't want to see any more children suffer.

I suffered from self hatred so much. It's like I didn't want to look like that any more. I didn't to feel like that any more. It had to be another way.

I've suffered through depression and anxiety my entire life.

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

When I was younger, about 15, I suffered badly from depression.

I probably suffered with depression.

I've suffered from anxiety and a lot of other things.