Quotes About Healing

I knew better than anyone how sometimes you just needed to be allowed to feel sad.

I drew the world he had created for me, full of wonder and possibility. I let him know a hurt had been mended in a way that he couldn't have known, and for that alone there would always be a piece of me indebted to him. And as I spoke I knew these would be the most important words I would ever say and that it was important that they were the right words, that they were not propaganda, an attempt to change his mind, but respectful of what Will had said.

I think people get bored of grief,' said Natasha. 'It's like you're allowed some unspoken allotted time – six months, maybe – and then they get faintly irritated that you're not "better". It's like you're being self-indulgent hanging on to your unhappiness.' 'Yes!

Sometimes I felt as if we were all wading around in grief, reluctant to admit to others how far we were wading or drowning.

Moving on doesn't mean you loved my dad any less, you know.

But...sometimes, Louisa, moving on means we do have to protect ourselves.

For a kid who's lost his mom and all the rage and grief that no one was able to talk out of me, football was a very therapeutic sport. Very.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

I was reminded that retribution does not break cycles of violence and injustice, but grace might.

Yo can always take back the lost parts of yourself if you can find and recognize them.

I got problems. I freak out, go to a shrink, go through all kinds of therapy and stuff, but I'm learning how to deal with it. That's why I've chosen one hour a night to get all of my aggressions out. to really tell the world the way I feel.

How do you get over a first love?" he asks. "You never do," Howard says. "It just stays with you and becomes a part of who you are.

when a person consumed by years of resentment, pain, and anger realizes that her father (for example) didn't directly hurt her when he abandoned the family; all he did was move out of the house. His action was morally wrong, but the pain came from her reactions to the event, and if she can change those reactions, she can leave behind twenty years of pain and perhaps even get to know her father.

Often a moment comes when a person consumed by years of resentment, pain, and anger realizes that her father (for example) didn't directly hurt her when he abandoned the family; all he did was move out of the house. His action was morally wrong, but the pain came from her reactions to the event, and if she can change those reactions, she can leave behind twenty years of pain and perhaps even get to know her father.

In matters of healing, the body initiates and the mind follows.

Right from the start, she felt at home with them. They sensed it, too, and soon, following her pattern, she was treating twice, then three times as many patients as anyone else at the hospital. More important, she was getting results, with patients and families increasingly requesting her as their therapist. The V.A. staff took notice, happy to have someone carry the elephant's load.

Through the anger came something I recognized; the sadness that can result from too many years absorbing the poison of others. - Alex Delaware on Dr. Lehmann

A good chunk of my life had been spent sorting out the scrambled communications, festering hostilities, and frozen affections that characterized families in turmoil. (257)

How you do you leave the past behind when it keeps finding ways to get to your heart? It reaches way down deep and tears you up till you're torn apart.

Consensual reality is both fragile and elastic, and it heals like the skin of a bubble.

but it was death that changed. People are still people. Some good, some bad. Death changed, and we don't know what death really means anymore. Maybe that was the point. Maybe this is an object lesson about the arrogance of our assumptions. Hard to say. But the world? She didn't change. She healed. We stopped hurting her and she began to heal. You can see it all around. The whole world is a forest now. The air is fresher. More trees, more oxygen.

Rape is, to me, no different than murder. It kills a part of the victim's soul.

In the car sometimes I'd just start balling my eyes out.

Some things touch every open heart and wound every soul.