Quotes About Healing

You never really get the smell of burning flesh out of your nose entirely, no matter how long you live.

If war is hard - and it is, forever and always - then after war is just as hard, in a different way.

When the war's over, I'll be kind.

It's funny, isn't it, " Miss Woolf whispered in Ursula's ear, "how much German music we listen to. Great beauty transcends all. Perhaps after the war it will heal all too.

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

Ultimately all kinds of fights end at forgiveness.

War or violence never can destroy enemies, only forgiveness can do that.

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate, , , The obliteration of memory.

The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it.

We adapt to our sorrows, I suppose, as unpleasant as they might be. One cannot weep forever. One simply runs dry of tears.

Amnesia was a soldier's best friend, and luckily, it could be taught. Missing limbs still ache, but missing memories never do.

Most people are remarkably resilient. Even those who have been through war or great loss often find reservoirs of strength. But the legacy of trauma is a heavy burden to bear.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

Immediately after a divorce or a breakup, your mind whispers that there are plenty more fish in the sea, while your heart shouts that there is only one whoever-you-just-divorced-or-broke-up-with.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.

Though bitter, good medicine cures illness. Though it may hurt, loyal criticism will have beneficial effects.

This is your body, your greatest gift, pregnant with wisdom you do not hear, grief you thought was forgotten, and joy you have never known.

Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.

The road through grief is a rocky one. Traveling along it requires courage, patience, wisdom, and hope.

It's always hard to lose somebody. It leaves a hole in you heart that never grows back.