Quotes About Healing

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

Everyone thinks forgiveness is a lovely idea until he has something to forgive.

Todo el mundo tiene algún secreto. Como hace una ostra con un grano de arena, lo enterramos a gran profundidad en nuestro interior y lo cubrimos con capas opalescentes, como si eso pudiera curar nuestra herida mortal.

GRIEF IS SELFISH. It enshrouds us, clutches us to its desiccated breast like an anxious mother. It does not want us to leave, though we know we must if we are to survive. Only madness lies ahead for those who cannot escape it, for grief will consume those who have nothing else to live for.

Nie wracajmy do przesz?o?ci. -Nie mo?emy. Musimy stan?? z ni? twarz? w twarz, gdy? jedynie wtedy zdo?amy odnale?? pokój

Uma dose de amnésia, e duas de desapego, por favor.

Maybe memory was just a wicked curse, and the kind of mind what could wipe out painful recollections a blessing. Maybe .....

Every human being must find his own way to cope with such severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

Every human being must find his own way to cope with severe loss, and the only job of a true friend is to facilitate whatever method he chooses.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

Long ago I learned that more than half of any pastor's congregation come to church broken and in the grip of some life issue that is eating at their wellbeing.

She wanted to protect us from worry, from sadness, from loneliness--things her parents had not been able to protect her from. (About Alice)

i had to cease to mourn what could never be & learn to make the most of what was possible. & i would begin by trying to mend the hurts of the past

Grief and sorrow are one and the same. But until you feel regret for what is now forever out of reach, you do not truly mourn.

The wound I had seen in my stepmother's eyes.

To heal, we must do more than grieve. We must also find a way to mourn.

Some things, of course, cannot be healed, no matter how much you want them to be, no matter how hard you try.

The best we can do is knot these threads at the ends so they won't unravel any further.

It takes pain to get rid of pain.

Faye guessed she was seeing images in her mind. The sort of images you had to live with for the rest of your life, like war wounds, but in your heart rather than on your skin.

was time to clear the air, empty out the wardrobes, and let the old skeletons see the light of day.

Her own scars were all on the inside. But that didn't mean they hurt less than if a belt had torn open the skin on her back.

Forgive Olof? When he had robbed them of their childhood, turned them into adults who clung to each other like victims of a shipwreck? He was the driving force behind everything they had done, everything they still were doing.

We do not thieve the peckers of men who've spurned us and squirrel them away in glass jars.