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Quotes About Healing

Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD
~ Julia Cameron
I was deeply loved. And scarred. Which is a pretty good trade-off in my holiday book.
~ Wade Rouse
Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.
~ Wallace Stegner
Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.
~ Wallace Stegner
Somehow I should have been able to say how strong and resilient you were, what a patient and abiding and bonding force, the softness that proved in the long run stronger than what it seemed to yield to...You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.
~ Wallace Stegner
It is not queer, and both desolating and comforting, how, with all associations broken, one forms new ones, as a broken bone thickens in healing.
~ Wallace Stegner
We're all tougher than we think we are. We're fixed so that almost anything heals.
~ Wallace Stegner
You are at once a lasting presence and an unhealed wound.
~ Wallace Stegner
like the discomforts of a camping trip that become hilarious in the telling, the verbal formulation of distress has the capacity to cure it.
~ Wallace Stegner
The wound kills that does not bleed.
~ Wallace Stevens
The greatest griefs are silent.
~ Wally Lamb
If the medicine is good, the disease will be cured. It is not necessary to know who prepared it, or where it came from.
~ Walpola Rahula
If you cannot forgive because of hurt inflicted by others, you will be unwilling to be vulnerable for fear of being hurt again. Because people are sinners, you cannot love and you cannot minister without getting hurt.
~ Walter A. Henrichsen
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug — which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.
~ Walter Anderson
If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other.
~ Walter Anderson
It is the silence-breaking cry that begins the process that turns pain into joy.
~ Walter Brueggemann
It is the work of the poet to imagine YHWH out beyond old stereotypes and to show us that the God of Israel, at the very moment of risk, is a God of healing, transformative, covenantal fidelity.
~ Walter Brueggemann
God is a magnet who draws pain to God's own self.
~ Walter Brueggemann
God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.
~ Walter de La Mare
Away There is no sorrow Time heals never; No loss, betrayal, Beyond repair. Balm for the soul, then, Though grave shall sever Lover from loved And all they share. See the sweet sun shines The shower is over; Flowers preen their beauty, The day how fair! Brood not too closely On love, on duty; Friends long forgotten May wait you where Life with death Brings all to an issue; None will long mourn for you, Pray for you, miss you, Your place left vacant, You not there.
~ Walter de La Mare
Anger is the fluid love bleeds when you cut it.
~ Walter Hooper
Love is a powerful painkiller.
~ Walter Kirn
It hurts when they're gone. And it doesn't matter if it's slow or fast, whether it's a long drawn-out disease or an unexpected accident. When they're gone the world turns upside down and you're left holding on, trying not to fall off.
~ Walter Mosley
El apego es la incapacidad de renunciar a determinadas cosas cuando nos hacen daño, nos quitan libertad y generan malestar emocional.
~ Walter Riso