Quotes About Healing

People who come from dysfunctional families are not destined for a dysfunctional life.

Everybody has some dysfunction in their families.

Music can tear me up inside.

I want to see Christian fiction speak to the hard and real issues that tear people's lives apart.

I hated women before I went to prison. I always felt like women were trying to tear each other down.

I had a 180-degree tear around my shoulder, my AC joint needed stabilising and a tear in my rotator cuff.

Words are everything in this life - they can tear you down and abuse you, or they can make you feel so wonderful and loved.

There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

There's something healing about tears.

I tore my right shoulder to pieces - three external tears, a labrum tear, and a detachment of the bicep tendon.

Nothing dries sooner than tears.

Tears may be dried up, but the heart - never.

I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.

But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example.

I don't want to sound like you never feel anything - we've all loved and lost, all had a lot of pain, and we're supposed to. We're humans; it's the way it works. But it's how you manage it, how you manage those tears and that pain. How you are able to get yourself out of it.

If you take the hard facts of a failed relationship, it's pretty grim. But if you make an album out of it, and if the violins represent all the tears, you create something magical out of something very normal.

I love Willie Nelson's 'Phases And Stages'; there's so many songs from The Band and Bob Dylan that have gotten me through hard times, like 'Tears Of Rage.' I love Karen Dalton's 'In My Own Time' and Skip James.

If I can bring you to the point where you're almost in tears one minute and laughing so hard the next and you've healed a bit at the same time, that's when I get to use the gift I was given.

When I feel something, I write it down so I guess technically it's a personal catharsis, but I would really like to help people as I figure myself out.

I have dermatologists, Atlas bone adjusters, a doctor that does a Polish technique to make your blood circulate. It heals everything.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

I spent the majority of my teenage years in hospitals, rehabs and halfway houses.

Music was my oxygen. It's what saved me from being a really lonely and scared teenager.