Quotes About Healing

The question of how you can hope and expect someone to forgive you when deep down you don't forgive yourself.

There was no going back to repair what had happened. You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

There's nothing you can do about the past, Patrick. Except keep it there.

The sun and salt air worked deeply on her muscles and eased the tension and pain. It

victims of sexual abuse during childhood often suffered from stunted growth. Disrupted psychological growth affected physical growth.

What are you sorry about? It's not your fault.

Yeah, Cassie thought. Roseanne knew what she was talking about. Seven years. But the song didn't say anything about what happened after seven years. Did that ache go away then? Cassie didn't think it ever would.

There are three roads that can be taken in recovery. There is the clean path of sobriety and there is the road to relapse. The third way is the fast out. It is when the traveler realizes that relapse is just a slow suicide and there is no reason to wait.

Lucinda Williams CD called World Without Tears

Everybody is looking for redemption. For something.

Bosch's mind touched his memory of his brief meeting with his own father. A sick old man on his death bed. Bosch had forgiven him for every second he had been robbed. He knew he had to or he would face the rest of his life wasting his pain on it.

The past is like a club and you can only hit yourself in the head with it so many times before there is serious and permanent damage.

Maybe nothing could help him now. But he needed to tell him anyway. The world was full of people who could not get over things. There was no closure and there was no peace. The truth did not set you free. But you could get through things. That's what Bosch would tell him. You could head toward the light and climb and dig and fight your way out of the hole.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

She wants to have baked a cake that banishes sorrow, even if only for a little while.

She'd never been religious. She hadn't allowed grief to send her crawling to the church.

I've always maintained you can either cure your neuroses or you can just outwait them.

As with a love affair, the battered heart needs time to recover from a good work of fiction.

duyduÄŸu nefret onu hasta ediyordu.

Postoje ljudi koji nikada ne mogu da odu u fantaziju, i postoje ljudi koji mogu da odu, ali zauvek ostaju tamo. Postoji samo nekolicina onih koji odlaze u fantaziju i vra?aju se iz nje. Oni isceljuju oba sveta.

If it's to get well, it has to hurt. If it stopped hurting, your arm would be dead.

It's part of what we call the Shadow, all the dark parts of us we can't face. It's the thing that, if we don't deal with it, eventually poisons our lives.

As a matter of fact I had a terribly traumatic childhood. But afterward I sort of reraised myself.