Quotes About Healing

You have to forgive her, Emma. Not for her sake. She doesn't deserve it. But for your sake, so that you don't become bitter like she is. I told her for years that she wasn't doing the right thing by you, but she wouldn't listen.

Hope is the magic that heals hearts and souls

Guilt trips never take you anywhere

And you can use that bad experience as a crutch to hobble around on for the rest of your life, or you can get over it.

Hearts can be mended and problems fixed, but only if the lines of communication are open

Tears on the outside fall to the ground and are slowly washed away. Tears on the inside fall on the soul and stay and stay and stay," Emma

Remembering only the good times was just as unhealthy as remembering only the bad ones—there was no closure in either.

Prejudice is a funny thing," Levi said, crossing his arms and leaning against the wall. "Kind of like a grudge. After you've had it for a while, you tend to forget what made you feel that way in the first place.

The myth that "emotions are bad" puts the blame in the wrong place. Emotions aren't inherently bad or unruly, but sin has devastated our emotions.

no situation created by our sin is so horrible that God can't redeem it for good—both for us and for our families.

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

Take your broken heart, make it into art.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Resentment is like drinking a poison and waiting for the other person to die.

When you've been hurt, you don't make excuses for the jerk who hurt you. That's his mama's job.

Family members lost to slave sales were worse than dead, as there was no peace or closure.

And, like the prodigal son, he had returned broken in body and also in mind to the house where he had been born, and he and his child had been welcomed with open arms.

Stories are the medicine that fill in the gaps of the self and show us who we are. (p. 38)

While strategies of colonialism were about removing and seperating people from that which is most important to them, healing and recovery must be about restoring what has been taken, reconnecting people to the stories and context of one's life and family. (p. 19)

Just because we've paid our last respects to those we love, doesn't mean we're over losing them.

talking above the pain of his broken heart

Karl, I think I want to wring your neck right now." He laughed. "You're a doctor. You don't wound people; you heal them." "I just might make an exception in your case.

I think maybe that is what love is. Seeing beyond the scars, to the person below the surface.

Your heart can break at any age.