Quotes About Healing

But if she let go of her anger, all that would remain was grief and pain. Anger was easier. Anger could be focused outward. Grief corroded from within.

I didn't want to be sad. I wanted to be angry. Angry hurt less.

A veces resulta más fácil desclavar un cuchillo de un hombre que pedirle que perdone tus palabras. Aunque esas palabras hayan nacido de la rabia.

Had he ever truly cared about our friendship? There are always those dark thoughts, I must believe, when a deep friendship ends so abruptly. But every wound becomes a scar, eventually. That one would never entirely ceased being tender, but I learn to live with it.

All memories are connected, and like a man's skin, they can heal. In time, left to themselves, those memories would have stopped hurting you. You may someday wish you could call up that pain.

All this guilt and shame and remorse you carry, Kestrel. Don't you see? That is what they burned you with. And you have added to it, all these years. The wall is of your own making. Take it down. Forgive yourself. Come out.

There is nothing dishonorable about abandoning pain. Sometimes peace is most quickly found when a man simply stops avoiding it.

His father and his sister had both deliberately attempted to wound him, and he had let them succeed. But those things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced, were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he (WIntrow) reminded himself, and felt the pain ease." p. 107

Forgiving the Day. Even the youngest child could do this; all it required was looking back over the day and dismissing the day's pains as a thing that were past while choosing to remember as gains lessons learned or moments of insight.

Could it be that simple? Simply pretend we had never quarreled; just go back to treating each other as we had before?

Man cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.

Sometimes a man doesn't know how badly he's hurt until someone else probes the wound.

Perhaps to another man it would have been obvious. Leave old pains alone. When they cease coming to call, do not invite them back.

To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.

Too late to apologize. I have already forgiven you

Better. I think. That is, some hurts have lessened, but the ones that remain are still sharp enough that I don't know if I'm better or just becoming more adept at ignoring pain.

forgiven,' she said quietly to herself. She sounded ill with it. With an oddly gentle finality, she added, 'You

well. It was as if he himself were embodied afresh in this lad. He could protect this boy as he had not been protected himself. He had the power to stave off the destructive forces that had once torn his own life apart. After all, they were not that different. The ship had said so. To protect him would be like saving himself.

To confront finally the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, 'I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live. And I will go on living.

I can see that this hurts you. You should fix it. You can't make it unhappen, but you don't have to carry around what they did to you. Don't give them that power over you.

To me there was no catharsis, only an unearthing of rotting corpses of memories, a baring og still suppurating wounds.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do. But we grieve for many years.

the small delights of the flesh were sometimes the most potent medicine against the deep pains of the spirit.

I grasped that it would take a while for the keep to grasp with all that had happened. But there was something there, a feeling almost of relief. I had seen that before in a man who had had his maimed foot removed, or the family that finally finds their drowned child's body. To finally confront the worst there is, to look at it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live, and I will go on living.