Quotes About Healing

Sweetie, if love could take away sadness, I'd be the happiest woman on earth. Sometimes the sadness is so deep, we have to sift through all the layers before we can find it and send it packing. That's what I'm trying to do in this place. Find my sadness.

Silence is medication for sorrow.

Among wonderful things is a sore-eyed man who is an oculist.

Bruises heal more quickly than emotional scars do.

The day his dad didn't come home, it was like a huge window over their heads had shattered, and every day they were walking through the broken pieces. Nothing fit together. Nothing made sense or seemed connected to anything else, and every step hurt. Maybe in Lichport he'd find a missing shard or two that would help him start piecing things back together.

music can reach those places where words alone can't go.

Essayist and philosopher Alain de Botton describes art as "an apothecary for the soul.

the purpose of death is the release of love.

El rencor es como beber veneno y esperar a que la otra persona muera.   CARRIE FISHER

You can survive with anger, but you can't live with it forever.

A mi padre le pasó lo peor que le puede pasar a un hombre: enamorarse de su dolor. (...) Porque empieza a no haber lugar en el corazón para el dolor de nadie más. El primer recuerdo que tengo en la memoria es de mi padre hablándome. Hablándome de cosas que yo no entendía: mi madre; de lo lejos que estaba la utopía que él había soñado de joven; de la crueldad creciente del mundo. Con sólo escucharlo ya le aliviaba su congoja.

I wondered at all the ways abuse invents us

Maybe I could rewrite the fairy tale of my life, transforming every blow to the head, and every cut to the cunt, and every crucified doll into some kind of an initiation.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. Rumi

Så kom en til meg. En med vakkert hjerte og et vakkert smil. Hun tok med i hånden og ledet meg ut porten. Hun sa: Du kan jo nesten ikke gå, gutten min – hva har de gjort med deg der inne? Og sammen gikk vi ut i verden, og skrittene mine skalv. Men jeg lærte å snakke – litt etter litt kom ordene tilbake i guttens munn. Og jeg fylte dem med sang. Og meget smerte lå skjult bak denne sangen.

to retrain your inner voice to be nurturing. Sometimes thinking of yourself as a child can help. "Did that hurt?" you can ask yourself. "It looks like it did. It's okay. It hurts, but it will be over soon. Hey, look at that pretty butterfly. I wonder where it's going right now?" Just as you'd affirm a child's emotion and then help redirect their attention from the subject that's upsetting them, you can redirect your own focus too.

True healing is not a "quick fix" but a regeneration that comes from removing all waste from the body.

A wounded love carries a scar to the grave.

Mijn indruk is helemaal niet dat patiënten alleen maar genezen willen worden, ze willen ergens mee kunnen leven, dat verschilt fundamenteel van genezen.

Zij was ziek, en ik was de ziekte. Dat is het verhaal. Andere mensen kunnen zeggen: "Ik ben ziek. Ik moet genezen." Of: "Ik kan niet genezen, hoe graag ik dat ook zou willen." Maar de ziekte kan dat niet. Dat is het verschil tussen het bijvoeglijk en het zelfstandig naamwoord. De ziekte moet ziekte blijven. Ik ben het zelfstandig naamwoord.

I'd fallen in love with a woman but she broke up with me and I was devastated. Six months later, I went into a suicidal depression from the break-up of the relationship, but I resolved to not do what my friends had done. And so I reached out for help.

To hate and to blame would be so easy. But in the end, those who collect stones as a reminder of the past wrongdoings find themselves carrying far greater weights than the very people who have done them wrong.

If we ignore pain long enough, it will eventually go away. But by the time it does, we may have caused lasting and permanent damage, and a new pain will enter our lives, which is often worse than the first.

I'm not saying people should not be held accountable for their hurtful behavior. But the only thing blaming does is to keep the focus off you. It means you aren't dealing with your problems.