Quotes About Healing

They would repair the leaks in their eyes.

this too is true: stories can save us.

Confession, apology, and forgiveness, Aunt Beru had been fond of reminding him, were the tools friends used to break walls down into bridges.

The wound lies deep, like the ocean floor. The sin is red, growing paler in death.

Rangiku…I couldn't do it. I couldn't get back what he took from you. Oh.. I'm so glad I got to tell you I was sorry.

I had never seen such sorrow; it appalled me. And I was even more appalled by her attempts to overcome it, because they so plainly, pathetically failed and in failing opened up a view of the world I had only begun to suspect, where wounds did not heal, and things did not work out for the best

The human mind has a way of punishing itself for killing a fellow man. It remembers and relives the incident again and again.

Tears released poisons from inside, poisons which if not released could be as deadly as the real kind. The

Broken and troubled characters must travel to new worlds to heal and overcome. Venture to the underworld and the subconscious where truths are met.

As the great German playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) put it, kisses leave no traces but wounds leave scars.

The pain of love does not break hearts, it merely seasons them. The disappointed heart revives itself and grows meaty and piquant. Sorrow expands it and makes it pithy. The spirit, on the other hand, can snap like a bone and may never fully knit

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

I ask that any and all beings assist and comfort anyone that I have ever harmed either physically, mentally, morally, spiritually or emotionally in any past, present or future life, and I ask any and all beings to assist and comfort the families and friends of anyone I have ever harmed in any way, in any past, present or future life, thank you!

They encouraged you to put some of your weight in their hands and soon as you felt how light and lovely it was, they studied your scars and tribulations...

It's gonna hurt, now," said Amy. "Anything dead coming back to life hurts.

There is no protection. To be female in this place is to be an open wound that cannot heal. Even if scars form, the festering is ever below.

They will blow it, she thought. Each will cling to a sad little story of hurt and sorrow—some long-ago trouble and pain life dumped on their pure and innocent selves. And each one will rewrite that story forever, knowing the plot, guessing the theme, inventing its meaning and dismissing its origin.

Good for you. More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Difficult to "move on" from any site of suffering if that suffering goes unacknowledged and undescribed.

Shadrack rose and returned to the cot, where he fell into the first sleep of his new life. A sleep deeper than the hospital drugs; deeper than the pits of plums, steadier than the condor's wing; more tranquil than the curve of eggs.

The pieces I am, she gather them and gave them back to me in all the right order.

The threads of malice creeping toward him from Beloved's side of the table were held harmless in the warmth of Sethe's smile.

Anything dead coming back alive hurts

She was broken. Not broken up but broken down, down into her separate parts.