Quotes About Healing

When my mother was sick, I found myself needing to put down in my journals all sorts of things - to try to understand them, and, I think, to try to remember them.

I told my mother at about the seventh year of therapy that I had been abused sexually by my father and she hung up the phone on me.

Except for the violin pieces and a few of my orchestra pieces, all of my works from the Passacaglia on relate to the death of my mother.

When the heart acknowledges how much pain there is in the mind, it turns like a mother toward a frightened child.

My mother is still battling alcoholism.

My mother used to say, "When you can learn to laugh at yourself, a lot of healing comes from that."

My mother loved everyone she came in contact with. She always shared her love and was able to heal those around her with it.

I can only hope that neither of them was scarred by their upbringing.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

A pittifull mother makes a scald head.

My mother killed herself when I was 12. I won't complete that relationship. But I can try to understand her.

If I don't have a mother, I'll let music be my mother.

My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.

Everything had felt so precarious since her mother's death, like she was walking on a bridge made of paper.

Here's a thing about the death of your mother, or anyone else you love: You can't anticipate how you'll feel afterward. People will tell you; a few may be close to right, none exactly right.

Nothing prepared me for the loss of my mother. Even knowing that she would die did not prepare me.

To grow up with the loss of your mother is a scar that never goes away.

When death takes your mother, it steals that word forever.

Conor held tightly onto his mother. And by doing so, he could finally let her go.

My mother was physically and emotionally abusive. My father was an extremely cold man.

The doctor of the future will no longer treat the human frame with drugs, but rather will cure and prevent disease with nutrition.

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others?

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Dogs have a way of finding the people who need them, Filling an emptiness we don't even know we have.