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Quotes About Healing

Each one of us hugged her with all our might. The strength of her arms healed me on the spot. When she saw the fear in our faces transform from fright to calm, she released us, one by one.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
It's just that I can't figure out how to be in this world without him. I just can't be the same.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Love. It mystically transcended death. It healed hearts. It changed thoughts. And when you met it head-on, it gave you courage in return.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
Let bygones be bygones, but we cannot and should not forget.
~ Dorothy Ko
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out.
~ Dorothy Koomson
Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain
~ Dorothy Koomson
Crying was an acceptable outlet, even if it made you feel raw and empty inside, it was still better than that build up of resentment that grew from not letting your emotions out. - My Bestfriend's Girl -
~ Dorothy Koomson
He just hijacks me. I love him. And I won't be able to give anyone a real chance until that's over.
~ Dorothy Koomson
The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.
~ Dorothy Sayers
Each soul has its solace.
~ Dorothy Whipple
We have been taught that forgiveness is a singular act to be completed in one sitting. That is not so. Forgiveness has many layers. It is also taught that forgiveness means to overlook, to act as though a thing had not occurred. This is not true either.
~ Dossie Easton
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
~ Dossie Easton
Don't give up! Your therapist author Dossie specializes in healing old wounds for trauma survivors and is happy to announce that many people find ways to deal with their history of violation, take care of themselves when painful memories show up, succeed in reclaiming ownership of their bodies, and enjoy a free and happy sexuality.
~ Dossie Easton
Let jealousy be your teacher. Jealousy can lead you to the very places where you most need healing.
~ Dossie Easton
We explained how we use S/M to explore our darkness, illuminate it with our clear awareness, and reclaim forbidden territory as psychological healing, a way of becoming whole.
~ Dossie Easton
Despite what you might have learned from the TV or the tabloids, sex workers really are not all desperate drug addicts, debased victims, or predatory gold diggers. Many healthy and happy people work in the sex industry, doing essential and positive work healing the wounds inflicted by our sex-negative culture. We know them as friends, lovers, colleagues, writers, therapists, and educators, as
~ Dossie Easton
busyness is usually a sign of brokenness.
~ Doug Fields
Grief works better out loud.
~ Doug Manning
If the Universe came to an end every time there was some uncertainty about what had happened in it, it would never have got beyond the first picosecond. And many of course don't. It's like a human body, you see. A few cuts and bruises here and there don't hurt it. Not even major surgery if it's done properly. Paradoxes are just the scar tissue. Time and space heal themselves up around them and people simply remember a version of events which makes as much sense as they require it to make.
~ Douglas Adams
All that was left within him longed to just make it right, to just somehow make it right again.
~ Douglas Clegg
And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain ways, they can't ever be fixed, and this is something nobody ever tells you when you are young and it never fails to surprise you as you grow older as you see the people in your life break one by one. You wonder when your turn is going to be, or if it's already happened.
~ Douglas Coupland
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
~ Douglas Coupland
The richness of the rain made me feel safe and protected; I have always considered the rain to be healing—a blanket—the comfort of a friend. Without at least some rain in any given day, or at least a cloud or two on the horizon, I feel overwhelmed by the information of sunlight and yearn for the vital, muffling gift of falling water.
~ Douglas Coupland
To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to kill, and a time to heal." —Partial excerpts from Ecclesiastes 3:1-8, King James Bible "Time flies like an arrow . . . but fruit flies like a banana." —Unknown (often attributed to Groucho Marx)
~ Douglas E. Richards