Quotes About Healing

What you have suffered after you have healed will make perfect sense.

You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.

One way you can trace your way back to real and true happiness and joy is through forgiveness.

The truth is, forgiving is a rather simple concept to grasp. It is often imagined that when you forgive, you have to reconcile with someone and yet this is a larger team in which forgiveness is just a player.

Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.

If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.

The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.

Take a walk through the garden of forgiveness and pick a flower of forgiveness for everything you have ever done.

Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.

Forgiveness is not simply a single act, it is a full process.

You get used to the brain being squeezed. At nighttime in the darkness of your emptiness, it seems to swell back up and gives you some peace. In the darkness even the pain is not so bad. A bruise heals. (Time is the treatment.) But it's your mind that's tortured. Your thoughts are in turmoil and despair. Feelings of awesome revenge and destruction manifest themselves.

All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.

Do not be deceived that you are weak because you have forgiven; instead be rest assured that you are now showing great strength - after all, forgiving is one of the most difficult things to do.

Remember, forgiveness is not a millstone but a milestone!

If you have a fault it is you do not forgive easy!

Your forgiveness or failure to forgive simply takes you nearer or further away from your ultimate goal. There are no two ways to deal with it, there is only one.

When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.

When you forgive, you immerse yourself in healing waters.

You are born, you live and then you die. But when you forgive you are free to live again!

Anger is a destroying force. What all the world needs is its opposite-- an uplifting power. -Laura Ingalls Wilder, As A Farm Woman Thinks (3) (November 1,1921).

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.

Most forms of rage, after all, are only sloppy cloaks for grief.