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Quotes About Healing

I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.
~ Bonnie St. John
If someone down-votes you, or you don't get a like, or someone says something not cool, you project onto it the person or the people who have hurt you the most in life.
~ Bryce Dallas Howard
Everyone says that forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.
~ C. S. Lewis
I don't think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.
~ John Green
The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that everything you receive from life is something you have earned.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
~ Joshua Harris
Forgive others, forgive yourself, forgive yourself for not being perfect, and accept responsibility for your own life.
~ Leo Buscaglia
There is no need for revenge. Living happily ever after is a sign that you have not let the past beat you.
~ Leon Brown
Facing my addiction was one of the hardest things I've had to do in my life.
~ Lynda Carter
For me writing and filmmaking is a therapeutic process. It reflects themes that I'm going through at a time in my life.
~ Mark Webber
My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
~ Martin Sheen
Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
~ Maryam D'Abo
One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
She placed her palm over his wound, pressing as hard as she dared. She would stop the blood. She would hold him and stop his life from escaping. She would hold life inside him and he wouldn't die
~ Michael Grant
The only way to ease our pain is to experience it fully. Learn to stay with uneasiness, learn to stay with the tightening, so that the habitual chain reaction doesn't continue to rule your life.
~ Pema Chodron
Certain realities in life are only seen through eyes that are cleansed through our tears. Let us learn how to weep
~ Pope Francis
I want to know if you have touched the center of your own sorrow, if you have been opened by life's betrayals or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain!
~ Oriah Dreamer
Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation—potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.
~ Reynolds Price
I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.
~ Ricky Skaggs
The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful
~ Robert Fulghum
I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.
~ Robin Quivers
I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.
~ Rose McGowan
I was completely nuts for most of my life.
~ Roseanne Barr
My parents divorced when I was a boy and I have since devoted my life to healing families, which is what my TV show 'Shalom in the Home' is all about.
~ Shmuley Boteach