Quotes About Healing

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

in every scar there is a story. The salve is the telling itself.

perpetuating the pain of the past. Is the telling the salve or the wound?

Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! You must forget the warmth he gave, I will forget the light.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, If I can ease one pain, / Then my life will not have been in vain.

In days that follow, I discover that anger is easier to handle than grief.

Anyone who's lived has lost somebody.

We all commit our crimes. The thing is to not lie about them -- to try to understand what you have done, why you have done it. That way, you can begin to forgive yourself. That's very important. If you don't forgive yourself you'll never be able to forgive anybody else and you'll go on committing the same crimes forever.

It is, no doubt, better for us to apply appropriate remedies to our diseases than to put our whole trust in the healing powers of nature. But it is better to put our trust in the healing powers of nature than to poison ourselves straight off by swallowing the contents of the first phial presented to us by any self-constituted physician.

El amor que nace de repente es el más largo de curar.

Recognizing how totally ignorant you are is the only honest way to deal with people who've been through something traumatic.

No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.

She was still there inside me now, just as she always was: a life put on hold, a memory I didn't know how to handle.

In places where a loved one has died, time stops for eternity.

I wished my heart would break and get it over with.

All I wanted was to get through this as quickly as possible, to see the day when memories be just memories.

Could it actually be true that tears help people to heal?

Jeder Mensch hat dieses kleine schwache Etwas, das zitternd am Boden seines Herzens liegt, und bisweilen ist es sicher besser, es hochzunehmen, sich darum zu kümmern und den Tränen freien Lauf zu lassen.

Non ricordavo più se in passato mi fosse già accaduto, ma nell'affrontare il buio che ognuno ha dentro di sé dopo una ferita profonda, distrutta dalla stanchezza, all'improvviso un'energia sconosciuta aveva cominciato a riemergere.

Rituals are more important than we think. Not for the dead, but I think it's the best way to help ourselves accept what happened, and draw a line under it.

Things are just things. They can't bring back the dead. it just makes me feel better.

Sounds great," I agreed. I would go out with Akira and forget, for a brief while, the sorrow that clings to life. I would pretend for a moment that my sadness might someday disappear.

I wondered whether I was crying because I was sad, or because I had just been released from my sadness.

Our bodies forgot, left things behind, without our hearts meaning to. Then the things that were left behind curled up somewhere deep inside us, and hunkered down. Time didn't move at the same speed for them, so they always left a lump, something unresolved.