Quotes About Healing

Y entonces, recordando el comportamiento de sus maestros cuando se hallaban junto al lecho de un herido, comenzó a reconfortar al paciente con toda clase de buenas palabras, caricias quirúrgicas que son como el aceite con que se engrasan los bisturíes.

Negativní komplexy u ?lovÄ›ka, který trpí nedostatkem sebelásky, jsou tak silné, že ni?í i to, co by ho mohlo posílit. Jakmile si totiž ?lovÄ›k najde nÄ›co nebo nÄ›koho dobrého, zamíchají se do toho komplexy a dají zrod pochybám, které zmaÃ…â"¢í nadÄ›ji dostat se ze situace tímto sp?sobem.

Il ne faut pas que tu me pardonnes - rien ne fait plus mal qu'un pardon - mais que tu ne m'en veuilles pas de ce que j'ai fait.

If you're working, it's the best therapy for posttraumatic stress," Juan says. Studies have shown that the gravity of posttraumatic stress is directly proportional to the length of time one lives with the threat of death, and Juan slowly unwinds the trauma of the sixty-nine days he lived inside a thundering mountain by going to work, fixing machines, then going back home, and then returning to work again.

We made a small place where people could go and let go of their pain, where they could pray for the miners, and start to forget that they might be dead," Carmen says.

Still another time have I come to a place where it is very difficult to proceed. I ought to be hardened by this stage; but there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing and leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires all the original horror.

there are some experiences and intimations which scar too deeply to permit of healing, and leave only such an added sensitiveness that memory reinspires all the original horror.

Time after time during the next six months, he would put me together again.

Psychological recovery is as important as physiological recovery.

Calming allows us to rest, and resting is a precondition for healing.

The madness of writing was the antidote to true madness.

A few words of criticism and I can bear a grudge for three days at a time, convinced she is plotting against me. None of this has diminished despite years of self-analysis, therapy and "writing as healing", as some of my students used to call the attempt to make at. Nothing has cured me of myself, of the self I cling to. If you asked me, I would probably say that my problems are myself; my life is my dilemmas. I'd better enjoy them, then.

Nothing consoles like the blues.

Sad songs are a safe hurt. It's a diversion. It's controlled. And maybe it helps you imagine that real pain will be like that. But it's not. You can't prepare for real pain. You just have to let it rip you apart.

Here is the truth about tragedy: it's good for the soul.

Paige has to come to it on her own. Don't you see that? I didn't 'let her go'"—Ingrid spat out the words—"because I don't love her anymore. I let her go because she's gone—and we can't bring her back. Do you hear me? We can't. Only she can.

Purging was part of his grieving process—

Grief can be inordinately selfish.

Maya knew that she suffered some textbook mental malady from being over there, but the truth is, no one comes back without scars. To her, that malady felt more like enlightenment. She got the world now. Others didn't. In

Mom squeezed her daughter's hand. "Don't make me face what I don't need to face," she said. "It's over. You can't change the past. But see, you can shape it with your memories. I get to choose which ones I keep, not you." Kat

Some people held grudges; Esperanza clutched them and tied them around her waist and used cement and Krazy glue to hold them steady.

Grief rarely attacks from the front. It prefers to sneak up on you when you least expect it.

He hadn't been inside this six-story pachyderm in seventeen years, but if this stomach lining could talk.… He let the smile hit his face. Why not? Why the hell not? He had tortured himself long enough.

Nothing is so healing as the human touch.