Quotes About Healing

There is no once and for all moment when we can say that at last we are whole, the past is buried and over, the hurts forgotten, the wounds healed. Instead we find that it is to be a search that we must expect to continue throughout our lives.

To stop crying, my Raisa... laugh.

Mrs. Gittel told him, "They should bottle you like medicine…

stop talking about the things that are bothering you so much.

Or you can believe that you have no emotional response, feel wrapped in cotton-wool insulating yourself from the world, when in fact you are deeply grieving.

If we fully embrace the apparent contradiction that we are distinct from others yet interdependent with them, then we realize that in order to fully awaken ourselves, we need to heal our relationship to others.

We should be willing to act as a balm for all wounds.

Judgment is not the last word; it is never the last word. Judgment is necessary because of centuries of hardheartedness; its proper work is to open our hearts to the reality beyond ourselves, to crack the carapace of self-sufficiency so that we can experience the inrushing grace of the healing, merciful, forgiving God.

Christians don't simply learn or study or use Scripture; we assimilate it, take it into our lives in such a way that it gets metabolized into acts of love, cups of cold water, missions into all the world, healing and evangelism and justice in Jesus' name, hands raised in adoration of the Father, feet washed in company with the Son.

Laughter is the best form of medicine. For when we laugh, we neither think, grieve, or feel.

if someone has just hurt you or broken your heart, if someone has just died, all the grace you need is there-waiting for you to receive it. As long as we are pulled inward-despair and self attention, we aren't free to reach for God's grace. If we mean to leave ourselves alone, we must keep a hand free.

I bent over, sick, and leaned my head against the softness of his stomach. He wrapped his arms around me, rocking gently. He said, "We should take you to the ocean, maybe that's what you need to feel better." He sang into my ear, under his breath. Silly songs. "That's the recipe for making love…

Time cancels young pain.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

When you're sad, Little Star, go out of doors. It's always better underneath the open sky.

Getting even has never healed a single person.

forgiveness is not so much for the perpetrator, but for the victim.

Anger and hate are seeds that germinate war. Forgiveness is a seed for peace. It is the ultimate act of self-healing.

He was covered with whip marks, oozing blood. They had burned his fingernails and toenails with the flame of candles. It took him many days to recover.

Los granos se nos enterraron en la piel de las rodillas, pero eso no fue lo que más nos lastimó.

It is not so easy to move on when your sleep is full of nightmarish memories.

And time tears us up and then it tries to fix us.

Instead of healing the past with words, he and Helen had reached a point where words were suddenly too dangerous to be used.

Heal me? You're trying to heal me by rubbing your…by rubbing against me?" Kat didn't even try to keep the skepticism out of her voice. "Yeah, right.