Quotes About Healing

One can cut the body, and it will heal - but do it over and over again in the same spot, and you will scar. The soul cannot be so different.

No dejas de amar a alguien solo porque te hace daño.

One can cut the body, and it will heal—but do it over and over again in the same spot, and you will scar.

how often has "hope" been the reason someone refuses to move on and accept a realistic attitude? How often has "hope" caused more pain or delayed healing? How often has "hope" prevented someone from standing up and doing what needs to be done, because they cling to a wish for everything to be different?

Estoy roto. —¿Y quién no? La vida nos rompe, Teft. Y entonces rellenamos las grietas con algo más fuerte.

the lack of color in these places is what keeps people sick so long.

He wasn't broken. All of them were broken.

The two of them remained there, not saying a word, though she did eventually rest her hand on top of his. The fire had felt cold to him, the air frozen, but that hand was warm. Finally, he turned to the side, rested his head on her shoulder, and wept.

Being unkillable, so long as one had some healing power stored up, could do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation. Of course, Wayne had probably been drunk at the time. That also tended to do strange things to a person's sense of self-preservation

The pain of loss was still there. It never went away. It just got buried in time, like a rock slowly being covered over by dirt.

When you've got an arrow stuck in you, it's sometimes best to just yank it out in one pull.

The secret to becoming unbreakable is realizing that you are already broken. We all are.

We don't forgive people because they deserve it. We forgive them because they need it--because we need it.

If you put shame in a Petri dish, it needs three things to grow exponentially: secrecy, silence and judgment.

When they teach [doctors] how to suture, they also teach them how to stitch their self-worth to being all-powerful.

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've been through too much, and rather than coming together to heal (which requires vulnerability) we're angry and scared and at each other's throats.

But what we know now is that when we deny our emotion, it owns us. When we own our emotion, we can rebuild and find our way through the pain.

We cannot grow when we are in shame, and we can't use shame to change ourselves or others.

Shame hates it when we reach out and tell our story. It hates having words wrapped around it- it can't survive being shared. Shame loves secrecy. When we bury our story, the shame metastasizes.

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain. —JAMES A. BALDWIN

Not enough of us know how to sit in pain with others. Worse, our discomfort shows up in ways that can hurt people and reinforce their own isolation. I have started to believe that crying with strangers in person could save the world.

If we can find someone who has earned the right to hear our story, we need to tell it. Shame loses power when it is spoken. In this way, we need to cultivate our story to let go of shame, and we need to develop shame resilience in order to cultivate our story.

People will do almost anything to not feel pain, including causing pain and abusing power;