Quotes About Healing

She knew what nightmares could do to a person and how bad memories could change who you were.

She knew this pain would fade again; like a sunburn, it would heal itself and leave her slightly more protected from the glare.

Alice started to cry. It came with no sound, no shuddering, no childlike hysterics, just a soul-deep release that turned into moisture and dripped down her puffy pink cheeks. She touched her tears, frowning. Then she looked up at Julia and whimpered two words before she fell asleep. 'Real hurts.'

Love rips the shit out of you and puts you back together like a broken toy, with all kinds of cracks and edges. It's not about the falling in love. It's about the landing, the staying where you said you'd be and working to keep the love strong.

Tragedy was like that, a razor that sliced through time, severing the now from the before, incising the what-might-have-been from reality as cleanly as any surgeon's blade.

In time, his grief had turned to anger and then drifted toward sorrow, and now, finally, it had settled into a lingering sadness that was a part of him, not the whole.

A searing, cleansing, enveloping love blew her heart into a million tiny pieces and reshaped it.

I was not good at the whole making-death-a-positive-transition thing. How could I? I wanted her to fight to the last breath. It was a mistake. I should have listened to her fear, comforted her. Instead I'd promised her that everything would be okay, that she would heal.

La neurosis es siempre un sustituto de los sufrimientos verdaderos...

It makes no difference that there were already conflicts in childhood, for the conflicts in childhood are different from the conflict of adults. Those who have suffered ever since childhood from a chronic neurosis do not suffer now from the same conflict they suffered from then.

I am the true medicine [says Wisdom], correcting and transmuting that which is no longer into that which it was before its corruption, and that which is not into that which it ought to be." * (Ibid., p. 459).

Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.

Nevroz, anlam?n? arayan ruhun ac? çekmesidir.

When the other person is hurting, confused, troubled, anxious, alienated, terrified; or when he or she is doubtful of self-worth, uncertain as to identity, then understanding is called for. The gentle and sensitive companionship of an empathic stance… provides illumination and healing. In such situations deep understanding is, I believe, the most precious gift one can give to another.

My dad died at a point in his life when he was mentally at peace.

The thing to hold on to in forgiving is that most often the people who are hurting us do not know what they are doing. In fact it is fair to say that none of us knows the impact of our actions in relationships, at least for a lot of the time. We are all unaware of our power to hurt and to heal.

Her emotions were raw, and she was on edge. Don't let things fester, Gus used to tell him and his sisters as kids. You need to cry, cry. You need to throw something, throw something. Just don't hurt anyone.

When the dead person cries, it is a sign that he is on the road to get well,' said the Crow solemnly.

El perdón no es un sentimiento, es una decisión. Si usted quiere perdonar, el Señor le ayudará a hacerlo. He

Por isso mesmo, um dia ou outro nós nos surrávamos a frio, sem qualquer motivo, porque o lombo carece sofrer, e há um certo prazer em curar ferida.

Memories are worse than bullets.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

sought professional help for her addiction, as well

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.