Quotes About Healing

Lostface!" Cloudtail spat suddenly. The venom in his voice startled Fireheart. "I hate that name," he hissed. "What right does Bluestar have to remind her of what happened every time a cat speaks to her? Well, I'm not going to use it again. And if Bluestar objects, she can . . . she can go and eat snails!

When the ball that was my heart ws broken,... laughter fell out".

When the bowl broke, that was my heart, laughter fell out.

Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

A child's death isn't always necessary for a mother to grieve.

The only thing a boyfriend was good for was a shattered heart.

Humans are like that sometimes, they seek something to put back together when they are broken and can't fix themselves. I guess it's just a comfort; it makes us feel better, like we haven't completely lost ourselves-we like t believe there's still a part in there, that can be saved.

The needs of the eating disorder sufferer are like a warped version of the travails we all face when learning to eat.

All soup is soul food.

The first step in recovering from an eating disorder is recognising that there is a problem.

Mirth is God's medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it.

God is himself a vast medicine for man. It is the heart of God that carries restoration, inspiration, aspiration, and final victory.

God washes the eyes by tears until they can behold the invisible land where tears shall come no more.

Joy is more divine than sorrow; for joy is bread, and sorrow is medicine.

Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

Love is the medicine of all moral evil. By it the world is to be cured of sin.

Sam had a child's faith in the healing power of the morning, she thought later, as she lay sleepless at his side; he believed that a good night's sleep could iron out all the accumulated wrinkles of the day. She resented his ability to fall asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow while she tossed restlessly in bed; his even breathing was an affront to her wakefulness.

Divine love is incessantly restless until it turns all woundedness into health, all deformity into beauty, all embarrassment into laughter. In biblical faith, brokenness is never celebrated as an end in itself.

I want you, Rosa,' Antonio said, turning to her. 'I want you with your scars and your suffering. You are my wife and everything that has happened to you only makes you more precious to me.

Perhaps there were certain kinds of pain that remained raw forever.

I realise there was little we could say to each other that wouldn't inflict some sort of pain. ... It was easier for people living in the aftermath to ask nothing rather than trespassing on each other's fragile memories. p240

To return to love, to get the love we always wanted but never had, to have the love we want but are not prepared to give, we seek romantic relationships. We believe these relationships, more than any other, will rescue and redeem us. True love does have the power to redeem but only if we are ready for redemption. Love saves us only if we want to be saved.

Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands.

Nicola had to move closer to Marcus, had to take his hands in hers and hold them over her heart as though she could give hers up for his if it meant she could take away all of the pain he'd had to deal with at such a terribly young age.