Quotes About Healing

These angers are crippling, like a fit when they happen, and then, when they are over, haunting me with remorse. Those who know me well and love me have come to accept them as part of me; yet I know they are unacceptable.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love , not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins.

You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

If you're not angry, you're either a stone, or you're too sick to be angry. You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger, yes. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it.

Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins. This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.

There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside of you.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you." ? Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

They may have forgotten how badly they treated you, or they may pretend that they have forgotten. But watch: They will come back to you.

I have found that the platonic affection in friendships and familial love for children can be relied upon with certainty to lift the bruised soul and repair the wounded spirit

Love heals. Heals and liberates.

Grief works its way on people differently. Some sulk, or become morose, or weep and scream a vengeance at the gods.

This book has been written to examine some of the ways love heals and helps a person to climb impossible heights and rise from immeasurable depths.

But think of it this way, if people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.

When I find myself filling with rage over the loss of a beloved, I try as soon as possible to remember that my concerns and questions should be focused on what I learned or what I have yet to learn from my departed love. What legacy was left which can help me in the art of living a good life?

Death of a beloved flattens and dulls everything. Connections do not adhere so closely, and important events lose some of their glow.

I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer.

I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them

The love of the family, the love of one person, can heal. It heals the scars left by society. A massive, powerful society.

I made bitterness into a wad and swallowed it.

Could I tell her now? The terrible pain assured me that I couldn't. What he did to me, and what I allowed, must have been very bad if already God let me hurt so much.

He explained when we were smaller that when things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep.