Quotes About Healing

Good medicine always tastes bad.

I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

You've got scars, you're beat up, you're a different person, but you're through it.

a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.

It amazed Rachel how much you could forget, and everything you forgot made that person less alive inside you until you could finally endure it. After more time passed you could let yourself remember, even want to remember. But even then what you felt those first days could return and remind you the grief that was still there, like old barbed wire embedded in a tree's heartwood.

Zephaniah 3:17 states that the Lord "will quiet you with his love." So whenever those negative voices whisper that you're a worthless failure, let the Lord "quiet you with his love." Let God's love silence those hurtful voices from your past.

crear es no llorar más lo perdido que se sabe irrecuperable».

La creatividad es justamente esto: un intento alquímico de transmutar el sufrimiento en belleza.

La literatura nos hace formar parte del todo, y en el todo, el dolor individual parece que duele un poco menos. Pero además el sortilegio funciona porque, cuando el sufrimiento nos quiebra el espinazo, el arte consigue convertir ese feo y sucio daño en algo bello.

Porque suele suceder que lo que nos daña también puede curarnos.

Je supportais ma peine comme on traverse un champ de mines : quand je pensais à autre chose, ma vie était normale, presque heureuse. Mais, de temps en temps, quelque chose me rappelait M., c'est-à-dire que je posais sans le vouloir le pied sur une mine et la déflagration me broyait les tripes pendant quelque temps.

El dolor a veces te debilita y otras te protege, como un escudo. Pero el dolor es peligroso cuando se asienta dentro de uno, cuando se acomoda y decide quedarse, porque entonces se extiende, como aire contaminado, y no hay viento suficiente que lo limpie.

Grief was like a terrible burden, but at least you could lay it down by the side of the road and walk away from it. Antonia had come only a few paces, but already she could turn and look back and not weep. It wasn't anything to do with forgetting. It was just accepting. Nothing was ever so bad once you had accepted it.

To cheer herself up, Elfrida looked ahead, in positive fashion, which she had always found a reliable method of dealing with a sense of loss.

She could not take her heart or trust with her. Chad had stolen both. It still hurt deeply to think about it, but it was done now, and she doubted she could ever love or trust a man again, let alone ever find it in her heart to forgive.

Sometimes the sorrow deep inside can slowly kill as surely as disease or hunger.

Y Rominka, al arrancarse la costra de sus pecados, lloraba. Porque duele quedar desnudo.

It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

It has been said that time heals all wounds, I don't agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue, and the pain lessens, but is never gone.

Lev,' said Ruby, 'when I was younger, I always told people the things I thought they wanted to hear. But I don't do that anymore. It's a cruel thing to do. So I can't say now that you will be free of it ( grief) and move on, because I just don't know the answer.

Some men spend their lives looking for ways to punish themselves for having been born.

Only the body saves the soul.

Mucho antes de Cristo había en Grecia un poeta que decía: Tengo un gran arte, hiero duramente a aquellos que me hieren. Mi arte es más grande aún: quiero a aquellos que me quieren".

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.