Quotes About Healing

The feelings and thoughts are at war. The feeling and thinking need to get together—to be integrated so they become one. No matter what your challenges are or how many you have, they can all be addressed with the Script and healing can begin.

Sometimes I think we would lose ourselves altogether if it were not for our stubborn, irrepressible symptoms, calling us, requiring us, to recollect ourselves, to reorient ourselves to life.

Don't resist pain. ...when you feel sad or angry or afraid, let yourself feel it.

With honesty, what hurts at the moment won't hurt for a lifetime.

It is in the ruins of this darkness that we absolve the ones who love us badly.

When a rock or a tree branch is placed in a river, the water's flow is altered a little. Have you not seen this? Our dances are pebbles and twigs, we make a little ripple in the great stream, that is all. Nothing leaves the river. This is how healing is accomplished.

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman. Such was the fate of Chiaroscuro. His heart was broken. Picking up the spoon and placing it on his head, speaking of revenge, these things helped him to put his heart together again. But it was, alas, put together wrong.

Look at me, he said to her. His arms and legs jerked. Look at me. You got your wish. I have learned how to love. And it's a terrible thing. I'm broken. My heart is broken. Help me. The old woman turned and hobbled away. Come back, thought Edward. Fix me

I have only the simplest shades in my house. I think a window treatment is something you should give a window when it's sick.

I believe sometimes medical issues just happen--they're not cosmic tests; they're not retribution for all the naughty things you've done over a lifetime. It's not some moral righting of the universe. It's just something going wonky with the wiring...And I think God cries when we're in pain; he cries with us and he supports us. But I also believe he stands back and lets us sort things out. Lets the doctors do their work. Lets your body heal itslef.

All you have to do is forgive.

I believe she's blown some dust off her heart.

Kate McMullan

Maybe all that was left after the war were damaged men.

I wonder if I'll ever forgive Evandar? I wonder even more if I should bother," Aderyn said. "Of course you should," Nevyn said wearily, "but for your own sake, not his. Hatred binds a man to what he hates, and I think me you need to be free of him.

Much of what we do in life is repair work on our childhood. We try to make it better than it was when we were growing up. But usually our insecurities remain our insecurities.

My body was telling me to rest the old machine for a while. Every afternoon about six o'clock I watched The Waltons, to try to heal myself just to get back what human kindness looked like. It was tonic for my soul. That seems so hokey, but that's what I needed right then—hokeyness—some blessed way of living. I was still writing the book somehow, I was drinking too much, and I would await these phone calls from Lenore with dread, just absolute dread.

Resentment is like swallowing poison and waiting for the other person to die. —MALACHY MCCOURT

When she'd read, her voice wrapped around my head and my heart, and it softened and lightened everything up. It put a pain in my hear that felt good.

Everyone has wounds as want healing. Seems like they all find me.

Pizza is good medicine for disappointment.

It's like magic, the way god wipes the memories of pain from your head.

Does the surgeon spare the cancer because he must cut to remove it? We are cruel. Of course we are cruel.

Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.