Quotes About Healing

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

I wanted to make peace with my dad. I didn't get to really make peace before he passed away and so I'm hoping to connect to him spiritually. I feel like he's always guiding me.

When you're down and have just split up from your partner everyone says you have to move forward. 'Get on with your life,' 'It's time to meet someone new,' and 'Don't think about the past' are phrases you'll hear for at least six months after the horrible event.

Divorce is hard. I was about 29 when my husband and I split up. I think we probably fared better than most, because we were young and didn't have kids - but divorce is hard.

It's difficult talking about someone you love when you've split up with them, because it's painful to rake up all those old emotions again.

My mother and I split ways when I was very young and have never really reconciled.

I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise grew discouraged and traveled on.

All I know is it destroyed my family, it destroyed my marriage to Sylvester and I will never get over it.

Love received and love given comprise the best form of therapy.

Whatever Jesus lays His hands upon, lives. If He lays is hands upon a marriage, it lives. If He is allowed to lay His hands on the family, it lives.

When marriage exposes a person's selfishness and sins it's doing what it is meant to do: bringing our sins and wounds to light so we can recognize them, confess them, and begin the healing process.

No marriage is "too dead" for the Lord to restore.

Marriage is two broken people having little broken people.

The end of a marriage has got to be one of the saddest events one can experience. I've heard that the pain [of divorce] is second only to an actual death in the family, and that sounds about right.

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

You may forsake a person, a family, some location of the heart, but scars and memories cannot be discarded like used clothing.

Coming to terms with the fact that my marriage was a failure was devastating and very difficult.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm.

In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy.