Quotes About Healing

And no matter what anybody says about grief and about time healing all wounds, the truth is, there are certain sorrows that never fade away until the heart stops beating and the last breath is taken.

Magicians can do more by means of faith than physicians by the truth.

If it's forgiveness you want, you'd better start by forgiving yourself.

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Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing.

There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.

The truth is that what we feel eventually comes out in our words and then our actions. If we are not careful, the actions we take when we are hurting will eventually become our legacy.

There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

The worst wounds, the deadliest of them, aren't the ones people see on the outside. They're the ones that make us bleed internally.

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely. She

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

Saltwater gargles. Lemon and honey. A drop of ipecac on the tongue. Hot milk at bedtime.

Because of my training as a clinician, I believe that this kind of moment, if it happens between people, has profound therapeutic potential. We can heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

My mother had wanted to erase her life with him, he said.

When we mourn, it should be the loss of love that makes us grieve, not the guilt that we did something wrong.

One took slippery elm and let it lie in milk until it became soft. This applied to the burns enabled to sleep better at night.

Teach us healing above all, soothing the center of our being. Teach us dark solitude without longing.

For it's when you stop seeing your sensitivity as a burden and instead recognize it as the gift it is that you will begin to heal the hurt places inside you and bring your full presence into the world.

Carl Jung said that if you find the psychic wound in an individual or a people, there you also find their path to consciousness. For it is in the healing of our psychic wounds that we come to know ourselves. . . . In the evolution of consciousness, our greatest problem is always our richest opportunity. ROBERT JOHNSON We: Understanding the Psychology of Romantic Love

Part of what trips us up is that we expect life and relationships to be easy. There is nothing easy about life, and relationships especially seem to stir up every hidden demon, every dusty complex, every latent unshed tear from our own life and our parents' histories hidden away in the attics of their psyches. Relationships ask us to grow in ways that nothing else does or can.

we're broken open, brought to our knees, dragged into the underworld not to be tortured or because there's something wrong or disordered with us, but because there's something right and beautiful inside that is longing to be seen and known.