Quotes About Healing

You will never be truly happy if you keep holding on to the things that make you sad.

She thought of the horse with his scars and wondered if having them so visible wasn't preferable to the hidden kind where nobody knew how to avoid the parts that still hurt.

I wish I could change things for you, make it so this all doesn't have to hurt so much. But that's the point, isn't it? That one day we'll find that the pain we suffered was worth it.

It'll be all right. Maybe not tomorrow or even the next day, but one day it won't hurt so much.

That there are no troubles in life that can't be sorted through or solved by spending time in the garden

You're strong at the broken places.

Must take care of de root for to heal de tree.

a heartbreak only makes your heart bigger, that someday all those cracks and holes will be filled in with all the joy and love you haven't had yet.

Grief was like that, Ceecee had learned. It either opened your heart or closed it.

Be patient and strong; someday this pain will be useful to you.

I let my voice trail off, unable to explain that the biggest grudge I held was against my younger self, the girl I'd been trying to bury for almost a decade.

Weeds could be pulled and new seeds planted, hardened soil tilled and watered to make a fertile bed. Water could be piped in to make an old fountain cascade for the first time. Perhaps my relationship with my mother could be tended in the same way, with care and patience used to rebuild the bedrock of a mother-child bond that had been broken nearly thirty-three years before.

The heaviness leaves, and if I'm patient enough it can be replaced by something I need, somthing that would fill instead of drown and let me breathe instead of bleed.

What a rapist takes from a woman is her future. The person she is going to become, who she is supposed to be, is gone. In many ways, it's worse than murder, because he has killed that potential person, eradicated that potential life, yet she still lives and breathes, and has to figure out another way to thrive.

Medicines heal doubts as well as diseases.

It is doubtless true that religion has been the world's psychiatrist throughout the centuries.

Love cures people—both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

cry as often as you need to. It's the all-purpose healing balm of the soul.

There is no weakness in crying. If we do not sorrow over what hurts us, how do we ever go past it? I have shed many a tear myself, Barbara Devane, over what life has brought me. Compassion can come from great pain, if you allow it. But compassion takes courage. Bitterness is easier.

The first is about forgiveness. It is never done well in little bits and dabs. Do it all at once and never look back, or do not do it at all.

What a shame. One loses so much when one can't forgive.

The parts of life that hurt and make us sick and tired, those are the places to start digging. Dig also in those places where you've been taken to the limit as well as those that lie motionless and at a standstill. The land of the soul is an open field for digging, and any sign of disturbing activity or suspicious inactivity is a big clue about where to start.

In an abused child's pure intent to make things right for everyone around him as he is growing up, he finds himself taking care of others at the expense of his own feelings and needs. Consequently, the child has no identity of his own. This is what is known as co-dependency.

if you have identified your feelings accurately and replaced them in the Script with appropriate opposite feelings, the stress you were experiencing can be unlocked, diffused and dissipated.