Quotes About Healing

In this life, I had all I ever wanted. Losing Erik was a sadness that knit itself into my soul, but that sadness was balanced out by all that came after. The years with you, my little girl, and with your grandfather and all the people of Bella Vista. It has been a life of abundance, and I will always be grateful for that.

Not for any birth mother I've ever met. You don't ever walk away. You don't ever forget. This is one of the biggest things that will ever happen to you. One of the biggest things in your life. It will always be part of you. That's one reason counseling and self-care are part of the process.

The sea was his mistress, one with the power to heal, nurture, love, torture… or destroy at her caprice.

you're not a criminal. Or a victim. You're a survivor. Love yourself, honey. Love that girl who lost her mama too young and picked the wrong guy and had to fight for herself. Love that girl—because I do.

Listen, you're not a criminal. Or a victim. You're a survivor. Love yourself, honey. Love that girl who lost her mama too young and picked the wrong guy and had to fight for herself. Love that girl---because I do.

Love doesn't stop when you lose someone," Carmella said. "And you don't want it to. Wrap your heart around the memories, honey, and keep him alive within you.

understanding. The day she and Rand had broken up, her father had spoken with surprising insight: There's a kind of love that has the power to save you, to get you through life. It's like breathing. You have to do it or you'll die. And when it's over, your soul starts to bleed, Livvy. There's no pain in the world like it, I swear. Now, finally

The cure for anything is salt water—sweat, tears, or the salt sea. —Isak Dinesen

Questions swelled inside her, tangling with questions that would never be answered. The trouble with being angry with a dead person, she reflected, was that you could never sit down with her, talk things out, get an explanation, make amends.

Bitterness does not pay. Certain things have happened to all of us in the past and it is for us to forget those and to look to the future.

lemon-mint monarda, which looks like purple pagodas and makes an effective insect repellent and a tangy tea; brown-eyed Susans, whose root juice the Cherokee used to treat earache;

music's a good thing, it calm the beast in the man.

Dopo una tragedia, molti dei superstiti si sentono perduti.

That was the way with grief: it left you alone for months together until you thought that you were cured, and then without warning it blotted out the sunlight.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out.

Hearts got broken every day. Nobody died from that. But it did kind of fade the sunlight and drain the color from the days.

They kissed, but it was a gentle kiss and there was no urgency. They were tired and they were...healing. They had time. And time was the most beautiful word of all.

Eyes closed, I murmured, "Are you kissing it better?" "Am I?" "I think so. My lips hurt too.

Time heals … if you let it. Big if.

My pastor had told me that forgiveness doesn't mean justifying or condoning what he did, but it would begin the process of freeing me from the past, and it would offer a lost person the opportunity for redemption.

Forgiveness is an action, not an emotion.

I wanted her note to say that I was a red hole dug out of the guts of her, a seeping wound that hadn't healed a lick in the twenty-odd years since she had left me.

the way we ended things was not uncommon for kids like us. She said we'd lost enough in our short lives to want to cauterize our wounds before they happened. We burned our connection closed before we felt the holes.