Quotes About Healing

I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was.

opening beyond where I was afraid to go would be the medicine for my cure.

Carlotta had not dreamed her numbed heart could be broken still more, or that breaking the heart opens it.

Why do tired people sing?

What make him pull through? I ast Oh, she say, Harpo made him send you the rest of your sister's letters. Right after that he start to improve. You know meanness kill, she say.

It is because when you truly love someone you wish them no suffering, although they must suffer, just in the course of life. You are always reaching out to them, to heal them. They instinctively do the same for you.

I remember one time you said your life made you feel so ashamed you couldn't even talk about it to God, you had to write it, bad as you thought your writing was.

I could get no further. There was a boulder lodged in my throat. My heart surged pitifully. I knew what the boulder was; that it was a word; and that behind that word I would find my earliest emotions. Emotions that had frightened me insane.

A renglón seguido, empezó a mejorar. Y es que la maldad te mata, dice Sofia.

When his uncle and his guests finished laughing, they'd seemed lighter, clearer; even their activities appeared to be done more gracefully. It was as if the laughing emptied them, and sharing it placed whatever was laughable and unbearable in its proper perspective.

A burnt finger remember the fire.

Four years after my father's death, when the subject of parents came up in conversation i would relate the information in a flat, matter-of-fact tone eager to detect in my listener the flinch of grief that eluded me.

There was a certain thing I did not get from my mother. There is a lack, a gap, a void. How's that? But in it's place, she has given me something else. Something, I would argue, that is far more valuable. I think I can get up now. She has given me the way out.

Perhaps I'm being histrionic, trying to displace my actual grief with this imaginary trauma.

Music is the refuge of the lonely.

until we make peace with our homes, we can never quite make peace with ourselves.

Time heals so well because many of our ills are short-term, situational, and self-limited - our bodies and our minds are programmed to be resilient without any active effort on our part.

Psychiatric disorder consists of symptoms and behaviors that are not self-correcting - a breakdown in the normal homeostatic healing process. Diagnostic inflation occurs when we confuse the typical perturbations that are part of everyone's life with true psychiatric disorder[.]

You can't go back. You can't have what was stolen. Just forget...

Work was a balm. Adrenaline distracted him from sorrow.

I needed her to show me how to live through sadness, how to make someone dinner. All I knew was how to be lost.

You are very young and time, it is a great healer.

Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do. Glokta

I don't do sober any more. Sober hurts.