Quotes About Healing

When we lose someone we love, we can either die with them or live on to celebrate their life.

he didn't look as much like a user as a man who had lost someone near and dear. She let it go. Wasn't that the lesson of the week? Anger accomplished nothing. Denial was a crutch.

When you lose the most precious thing in your life, how do you go on? How do you not?

Anger was what came of hurt that had simmered too long.

What if the past won't stay packed away in a box with my name on it, just sitting there until I feel like taking if off the shelf and lifting the lid?

It's better to be rid of them than to have to fight off unpleasant memories.

Stop dwelling on events and people who have disappointed you.

Then, suddenly, I reach out and wrap my granddad's hand in mine, like he once held mine, and for a while, the anger inside me quiets.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

There is no point treating a depressed person as though she were just feeling sad, saying, 'There now, hang on, you'll get over it.' Sadness is more or less like a head cold- with patience, it passes. Depression is like cancer.

Listen. Slide the weight from your shoulders and move forward. You are afraid you might forget, but you never will. You will forgive and remember.

I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

When you carry pain and do not release and let go of the past, your body will faithfully show you the results of your repressed feelings. Just as facing your fears is the best way to overcome them, you can also deal with your deepest feelings by acknowledging their existence.

No one has a perfect life but I didn't want to say that to her. "I think we use horses to repair our own lives. If we can make their lives trouble-free then it doesn't matter so much if ours are a mess.

The upside to grief is it takes away your appetite. When people say you look good they really mean it. Nature's thoughtful that way.

There are various ways of mending a broken heart, but perhaps going to a learned conference is one of the more unusual.

Later that evening, as we sat in the garden having drinks, I caught Harry looking at me with a kind of doggy devotion in his eyes. I leaned back in my chair, well satisfied, both with my drink in such pleasant surroundings and with his devotion. It seemed like a balm to heal the little wound inflicted by Piers's unkindness.

sometimes life is really hard. It just is. Things happen that make you want to die, but if you hang on, they do eventually get better.

We all fight sorrow as if it would harm us. The opposite is true. Sorrow can heal us. Letting your heart break can be good for you.

The heart hates unfinished business

It's as though we loved our past, but our past didn't love us. So we go on strike and pretend we don't care, as if to punish fate for being unkind. Fate never cares, of course, so we only hurt ourselves.

We are certainly damaged people. The question is, finally, do we use that damage, that first-hand knowledge of oppression, to recognize each other, to do what work we can together? Or do we use it to destroy?

Time, the best of all doctors, though it kills you in the end, had done more than therapy could.