Quotes About Healing

We avoid pain because we live in a culture that teaches us to avoid pain. We avoid pain because we don't know that turning toward pain — and I use pain as an umbrella term for anything uncomfortable that we wish to avoid feeling — is one of the secret pathways to joy.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

Perhaps it is music that will save the world.

So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.

There had not been this many words sounded in our house for a long time, and it was going to take a while to clean them out.

Till you experience it, you think that grief is one emotion. It isn't; it is many emotions packaged into one. It's like standing at the top of a tall building and having the floor fall out.

An illness is like a journey into a far country it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a point so remote that it appears like a vision.

You know you're over it .... if you don't need to laugh it off and still have a smile on your face.

Stories fix us. Stories make us see. Stories remind us how we have failed at love, why we should try harder. Stories teach us when to leave. Stories remind us that we are not alone in our anguish – everyone is a little bit broken, and perhaps better for it.

Grief is not a record of what has been lost but of who has been loved. In the end, we weep not only for the death of someone but for the startling question that faces us: what shall we do with the love we have for the deceased? Where will we put it?

I"ve learned that I must find positive outlets for anger or it will destroy me.

In Uncommon Therapy, Jay Haley

Therapeutic Metaphors, by David Gordon

CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THINK THE ONE WHO LEFT YOU AND THE WORLD IN EACH MOMENT. IT COST NOTHING TO BE NICE."

You can't hurry love, as the song goes. You can't hurry grief either.

Now I had seen the grief of the two strongest people I knew. And somehow, Daddy's and Edie's crying made them seem even stronger to me. It was better to cry than to suck it up and go around conjuring hate in your heart

Forgiveness is the easiest thing in the world, Justin thinks. All you do is just decide to do it, and then it's done. Instantly you feel better, like pushing aside a quilt that is too heavy for sleeping. Forgetting is the hard part.

Learn how to forgive others, including yourself.

One minute of sincere gratitude can wash away a lifetime's disappointments.

You can only change that which you love.

As long as it still hurts, it isn't love yet.

I promise to feel no other pain if I cease to feel the one that's killing me now.

Art leads you back to the person you were after the world took you away from yourself.

What angers us in another person is more often than not an unhealed aspect of ourselves. If we had already resolved that particular issue,we would not be irritated by its reflection back to us.