Quotes About Healing

The greater the pain associated with love, the more likely a person is to be attracted to others who will inflict this pain…for isn't this what love is? Hurt people tend to hurt other people.

If we want to improve, first we have to recognize our own maladaptive coping skills, called codependency, then change.

Families living in dysfunction seldom have healthy boundaries. Dysfunctional families have trouble knowing where they stop and others begin.

In your hands I am no longer a pile of bones left behind to a world that moved on.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but your words will always kill me.

I bruise easily and sometimes I can't stop bleeding.

She just keeps kissing my scars. Every scar. She knows about them all. She watched them all appear and heal. Sophie's lips against me make every punch, every kick, every wound, every scar worth it.

Health is not luck. We have an innate ability to maintain good health if we establish the optimal environment for healing.

No man can have true sympathy who has not been, in some measure at least, "a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief," but the sorrow and grief must have passed, must have ripened into a fixed kindness and habitual calm.

Radiate your Smiles. For Smiles and Cheer are the greatest stimulators in the world. You don't have to speak to Radiate Smiles and Cheer. They shoot their rays of warmth and healing and encouragement from the very lines of your Face and the very movements of your body.

We tend to use knowledge as therapy.

When she shouts that what you did was unforgivable, she has already started to forgive you.

Patients who spend fifteen minutes every day writing an account of their daily troubles feel indeed better about what has befallen them. You

anything that takes you away from the doctor and allows you to do nothing (hence gives nature a chance to do its work) will be beneficial.

Pavese casi nunca hablaba de Leone. No le gustaba hablar de los ausentes ni de los muertos. Lo decía. Decía: «Cuando alguien se marcha o se muere trato de no pensar en él, porque no me gusta sufrir»

What he'd wanted before had crumbled away, leaving the truth of what Kennedy did to him. It was new, and there was a long way to go before it could be right, but that was the path he wanted to take.

You think you're the only one? Theo said. Everyone has scars. We just don't all wear them on the outside.

To survive trauma one must be able to tell a story about it.

Of course, we're made up of what we've forgotten too, what we've tried to bury or suppress. Some forgetting is necessary and the mind works to shield us from things that are too painful; even so, some aspect of trauma lives on in the body, from which it can reemerge unexpectedly

Only those who still have hope can benefit from tears.

As a psychotherapist I see that nothing does as much for an individual's self-esteem as becoming aware of and accepting disowned parts of the self. The, first steps of healing and growth are awareness and acceptance—consciousness and integration. They are the fountainhead of personal development.

No solo hay que estar dispuesto a soportar el dolor y el sufrimiento sino que tambièn hay que asumir la soledad, la cruda realidad de que la niña pequeña que una vez fue, no tuvo -y no tendrà jamàs- los padres que necesitaba y hubiera deseado.

the healing that is needed is not between self and others but between adult-self and child-self.

Unhealing pain from the past, because of the sense of debilitation it often provokes and the defenses people typically set against it, represents yet another barrier in the quest for stronger self-esteem.