Quotes About Healing

I wish she were receptive enough to discuss what I learned, but you can't expect the same person who wounded you to heal you. So

Perhaps the people who hurt you the most when they leave are the ones you shouldn't have been with anyway, because they do it without compassion.

How will I know the difference?" "Wounds bring drama and trauma. They don't bring comfort.

A lot of times, people in a family think it's just one person who causes all the trouble," Lorraine, the therapist who lectured us on trauma, is telling the assembly. "But a family is a system, and a sick person is the product of a sick system.

She's still making me go over every detail of the affair. And, you know, whenever I check my email, everything's in the read folder because she's already gone through it all." "That's a horrible way to live—for you and for her. You know what Lorraine calls it?" "No." "Pain shopping. She's not getting healed by that. She's just getting retraumatized.

Some people say that time cures all wounds, but I think that time is the wound.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that is left on the heel that crushed the violet.

churches must come to terms with their past and genuinely repent, or there will be no future.

Yet the Church does not exist for the infirmary; the infirmary exists for the Church. The

Of course she is. Hell hath no fury. You're not the only woman scorned. However much you and Ben tell her that it's not about her and that it's just about what went wrong between you and him, she probably can't see it that way. You should have her go talk to somebody.' 'A shrink?' 'Why not? Aren't you seeing someone?' 'I'm not the type.' 'What's the type? You get sick, you see a doctor, right?

It's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief . . . lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it's not so overwhelming.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

Someday you'll find someone special again. People who've been in love once usually do. It's in their nature.

It might seem as the hardest thing to do, but you have to forget the guy who forgot about you.

I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal…

I know you miss me terribly. I miss you, too. But we still have each other, for I am - and always have been - part of you. You carry me in your heart, just as I carried you in mine, and nothing can ever change that. I love you, my darling, and you love me. Hold on to that feeling. Hold on to us. And little by little, you will find a way to heal.

Love hurts. There is nothing as painful as heartbreak. But in order to learn to love again you must learn to trust again.

I knew it wasn't fair, I knew it was wrong, but I couldn't help it. And after a while, the anger I felt just sort of became part of me, like it was the only way I knew how to handle the grief. I didn't like who I'd become, but I was stuck in this horrible cycle of questions and blame.

People in pain don't always see things as clearly as they should

If it's over, then don't let the past screw up the rest of your life.

It's easy to joke when you don't care any more. I'm not saying it didn't hurt me, because it did.

Because in the end, and no matter how hard it is, acceptance helps people move on with the rest of their lives.

That life isn't fair? Yeah, that, of course. But I also learned that it's possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief... lessens.

most of all, I learned that it's possible for two people to fall in love all over again, even when there's been a lifetime of disappointment between them.