Quotes About Healing

As long as you allow your past to haunt you, you'll never be free to pursue your future. You won't even be able to focus on your present.

Algunas personas piensan que no es posible perdonar. Están convencidas de que perdonar a otra persona es lo mismo que aprobar su conducta o tolerar lo malo o cruel que ha hecho. El perdón sólo tiene que ver contigo. Es un acto perfectamente egoísta. Al perdonar a la otra persona no lo liberas; te liberas.

Many people fall in love with their suffering. Their past problems become a primary focus of their lives. They think about what happened all the time. They go through the day and even the night carrying on angry conversations with people who are not present, people who they feel have hurt them in the past.

Forgive the past. It is over. Learn from it and let go. People are constantly changing and growing. Do not cling to a limited, disconnected, negative image of a person in the past. See that person now. Your relationship is always alive and changing.

My unhappiness was rooted in my mother's inability to stop drinking.

I told you, in my last, that He sometimes permits bodily diseases to cure the distempers of the soul. Have courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of GOD, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.

The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

You know why it's hard to be happy—it's because we refuse to LET GO of the things that make us sad.

Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love

ou can't go feeding your hate on the past, it's not natural.

I'm a uniter not a divider. That means when it comes time to sew up your chest cavity, we use stitches as opposed to opening it up.

Peace and joy naturally, inevitably, and irreversibly make their way into every corner of your mind, into every relationship and experience. The process is so subtle that you may not even have any conscious awareness of it. You may only know that you used to hurt and now you don't.

And that goes not only for mothers but for every human being you haven't forgiven yet. Every human being, every cat, dog, tree, thing—to be separate from anyone or anything goes against your heart. The only time those people or things are not okay is when you believe they're not.

In reality, the pain we feel about a past event is created in the present

To make amends" means to right the perceived wrong. What I call "living amends" is more far-reaching. It applies not only to one particular incident but to all future incidents of that kind.

I'm sorry I did this to you. It's all my fault. What can I do to make it right?

Well, sweetheart, it's the last place we look—to ourselves. This is a surgery. We go in and get it all.

Forgiveness is discovering that what you thought happened, didn't—that there was never anything to forgive

ARTHUR: I want me to stop attacking my mother. I want me to accept her, love her, and embrace her as good enough for me. KATIE: Yes, sweetheart. That's your prescription for

The wounds inflicted by weapons may close in time; scalds may heal gradually; but wounds inflicted by words remain painful as long as one lives.

Poetry is tribal not material. As such it lights the fire and keeps watch over the flame. Believe me, this is where you get warm again. And naked. This is where you can remember the good times along with the worst; where you are not allowed to forget the worst, else you cannot be healed.

Poetry helps us to suffer more efficiently

imagined slights could be more poisonous than real ones.

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.