Quotes About Healing

Every German must face the past before he can face the future.

There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

But ... no ... there I go, being vindictive and vengeful myself, wishing harm on others as they have wished it on me. I have to watch that in myself. I have to step on the head of that snake every time it rises. There's always someone to hate. The list of those who have earned our hatred — and spurned our hatred — is endless. Shall we draw up lists of each other's crimes? Must we hate each other for all time?

Do you want to hear Jesus speak? Go to where the wounds are. Find wounded people, hurting people, suffering people, and you will find Jesus.

În ultim? instan??, îngrijitorilor poate c? le pas? cu adev?rat de ceilalÈ›i, dar nu sunt capabili s? le ofere mai mult. Este posibil ca acel ceva s? nu fie ceea ce îÈ™i doresc ceilalÈ›i de la ei, dar, pân? ce nu se vor elibera de trecutul lor toxic, e tot ceea ce pot face. Din acest punct de vedere, merit? mai degrab? compasiunea noastr?, decât judecat? È™i critic?.

Factorul cel mai frecvent care determin? dezvoltarea dependen?ei de a-i mul?umi pe al?ii este trauma din prima copil?rie asociat? cu sentimentul de a fi ignorat, respins sau abandonat de c?tre prima persoan? care s-a ocupat de copil.

Atunci când consecinÈ›ele de nesuportat ale sindromului îngrijitorului, acelea de a te simÈ›i invizibil, golit, neiubit È™i abandonat, duc la recunoaÈ™terea neputinÈ›ei în faÈ›a dependenÈ›ei de a-i mulÈ›umi pe alÈ›ii, primul pas înspre recuperare a fost deja f?cut.

Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.

allows "for the possibility that 'they know not what they do.' "8 How many of our parents intended the harm they caused? How many acted in ignorance and are ignorant still? How many are stuck in their

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.

You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.

When we forgive evil we do not excuse it, we do not tolerate it, we do not smother it. We look the evil full in the face, call it what it is, let its horror shock and stun and enrage us, and only then do we forgive it.

It takes one person to forgive, it takes two people to be reunited.

If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!

I refuse to let the past find me here.

She knew what it was to wait for someone who would never come home. She knew that grief, like a scar, faded but never really went away.

We're all damaged somehow.-A Great and Terrible Beauty

He wanted to hit something or someone. He wanted to burn up the whole world, heal it, and burn it down again.

There's a moment of profound sadness that can be dispelled only by summoning my anger.

Because there's nothing wrong with you... that can't be fixed.

He smiles sadly. Now I know my destiny. What is it? This. He draws me in to him in a kiss. His lips are warm. He pulls me tighter in his embrace. The roots sigh and release their hold on my waist and the wound in my side is healed. Kartik, I cry, kissing his cheeks. It's let me go. That's good, he says. He makes a small cry. His back arches, and every muscle in his body tightens.

She wears her grief like a coat of feathers too heavy for flight. He crossed out heavy, wrote weighted instead, then decided that was downright pretentious and put heavy back in.