Quotes About Healing

I don't bear any bitterness towards anyone.

I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.

I can stay in the bath for, well, the longest has been seven or eight hours. I get completely set up with my laptop so I can watch 'The Sopranos,' put out some scented candles, music. I have a towel nearby so I can dry my hand to change the music or the TV. I make a little heaven for myself. And then I just refill and refill.

The best thing that I did was get myself out of an environment that was toxic to me and to my mental health. That was through retiring from football.

My son John was just under a year old when I collapsed with a life-threatening kidney disease. The shame and guilt resulting from my unplanned pregnancy had continued to fester to the point that my toxic feelings literally poisoned my body.

I grew up in a very toxic home.

Anything negative, I have to let go because it's too toxic for me.

I had a year of therapy and I swear to God, I went in that with a certain level of self-love, but not enough to keep me out of bad relationships, not enough to try and save people who were toxic for me, not enough to recognise when something was bad, to walk away.

I just cut off a lot of toxic stuff in my life.

It was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life.

If I run or breathe too deep, the cheap stitches holding me together will snap, and all the stickiness inside will pour out and burn through the concrete.

In Hawaii, we have something called Ho'oponopono, where people come together to resolve crises and restore peace and balance.

My mother passed at the end of the Circus tour. After that I really needed to take some time and just chill out and get my head together.

You saved me, Eve." He watched her blink in absolute shock. "What you are, what I feel for you, what we are together saved me." He kept his eyes on hers as he kissed her.

I want us to heal America and bring it together because that's, I think, the best way for us to get the future that our children and our grandchildren deserve.

It had taken years to put themselves back together, and so what if some things didn't get put back in the right place? At least they could hold themselves up.

I don't know very many people who can piece together eloquent prayers when their souls are wounded. Words don't come at those times, but tears do. I have always thought of my tears as prayers.

But the absolute worst was when people asked if I was okay. Because then I had to admit that it was real, it happened, and we weren't together anymore.

You can travel the world but If you cannot let go of the past, you will never move on.

Music saved me; I mean, my upbringing was like a hurricane, and music was the tree I held onto.

Sometimes we just have to cut off the dead branches in our life. Sometimes that's the only way we can keep the tree alive. It's hard and it hurts, but it's what's best.

Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.

Grief, like a tree, has tears for its fruit.