Quotes About Healing

Acting up , a peculiar phrase. It's what people say to minimize the gravity of their condition. It implies that the offending part (heart, stomach, liver, whatever) is a fractious, bratty child, which can be brought into line with a slap or a sharp word. At the same time, that these symptoms--these tremors and pains, these palpitations--are mere theatrics, and that the organ in question will soon stop capering about and making a spectacle of itself, and resume its placid, off-stage existence.

A scar is like writing on your body. It tells about something that once happened to you, such as a cut on your skin where blood came out. What

I have been a longtime perpetrator of hate crimes against myself, and I am turning myself in. I have had enough.

Mourning is a river that carries us to joy. Sometimes we need to give space for grief in order to make room for joy.

Poetry consoles me at the same time it inflames me, I said. 'You should know better,' he sniffed. 'It's poison for the soul!

A woman's body doesn't quit just because her heart breaks.

All she wanted was a breathing space in which to hurt.

But she knew that no matter what beauty lay behind, it must remain there. No one could go forward with a load of aching memories.

You think that by saying, 'I'm sorry,' all the errors and hurts of years past can be remedied, obliterated from the mind, all the poison drawn from old wounds….

What is broken is broken—and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

A hard little pain had started in her heart and was traveling slowly up toward her throat where it would become a lump and the lump would soon become tears.

Rossella, non ho mai avuto la pazienza di raccogliere i frammenti di un oggetto rotto per incollarli insieme e dire a me stesso che l'oggetto riappiccicato vale quanto quello nuovo. Quello che è rotto è rotto... e preferisco ricordarmelo quando era in buono stato piuttosto che aggiustarlo e e vedere le tracce della rottura finchè vivo.

I was right when I said I'd never look back. It hurts too much, it drags at your heart till you can't ever do anything else except look back.

Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and thorns that are the rest of medicine.

Compassion is a spiritual technology.

I'm not fragile, " I teased and kissed him harder. I supposed my bruise would say otherwise, but I didn't want to be treated like I was going to shatter if someone touched me.

Forgiveness is a form of gratitude. When we forgive others, we show them the mercy that we have often received and been thankful for.

Forgiveness - this needs to be our greatest skill. The way to get good at forgiveness is: to be thankful for all the little things you see in the other person.

Grief's darkness fades in the sunlight of thanksgiving.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

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.

There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.

Yes, photography saved my life. Every time I go through something scary, traumatic, I survive by taking pictures.

Call on your Lord when your heart is brittle, that is a time when it's in pieces and the Light of Allah can fill the gaps. That is why All?h is with the broken hearted.