Quotes About Healing

For there are two kinds of forgiveness in the world: the one you practice because everything really is all right, and what went before is mended. The other kind of forgiveness you practice because someone needs desperately to be forgiven, or because you need just as badly to forgive them, for a heart can grab hold of old wounds and go sour as milk over them.

No one is now what they were before the war. There's just no getting any of it back.

Breaking things heals a great many hurts. This is why children do it so often.

Storytelling can save you. Both the telling and the listening.

The burnt-off connectors and shadows where Ravan once filled my spaces— those, I think, are the sensations of grief.

But I shall choose to remember you, and it would be nice if it went both ways. That's how it generally goes in my country." But does it? September thought. If a body is hurt, they try to forget the person who hurt them and never think about the pain again.

12. Suffering of any kind is and shall be considered - contraband.

building is medicine for free.

Within sadness lives a happiness deeper than any pain.

All through the day, whenever the sadness comes, I pinch my arm to make the sadness go there. That takes it out of my heart. When I go to bed that night, I see a bruise on my arm.

healing-centered engagement moves the pendulum toward a focus on strengthening what supports well-being (hope, imagination, trust, aspirations) inclusive of social justice issues and intersectionality. In brief, it shifts the perspective from "what happened to you" to "what's resilient about you.

In the course of psychotherapy with children, innumerable transactions between child and therapist result in an emotionally corrective, relational healing experience. What happens when therapists respond in the expected way?

The traumatized, we might say, carry an impossible history within them. Or they become themselves the symptom of a history that they cannot entirely possess (and thus which possesses them).

Emotional scars often run the deepest.

Acknowledging pain, disappointment and suffering is part of the healing process.

Does your hate make you happy, my dear, or does it continually eat through you, a cancer of its own making? Does the constant fueling of that angry fire not exhaust you and take away from living the wonderful life you've been given?

Closure was a dumb notion made up by psychologists who justified people going to them for ever, the concept that one day you'd get over something and be able to say, 'OK, that's in the past, I'm better, I've moved on.' Bullshit.

You will usually discover that the creative process itself is truly the most healing part of any art therapy experience.

The positives from learning about mind control far outweigh the negatives," Mark agreed. "Good people have a right to the information on mind brain function. Once they realize the truth, they can assume the healing.

I wish you'd read your poems," she said sternly. "We need poems to heal." "I'm not ready to heal," I said as gently as I could because I was afraid how she'd respond. She nodded. "I respect that," she said, and walked away.

Much later, when I could think about it clearly, I consoled myself that there were many worse ways in which I might have been raped.

The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

do not dwell any more on things in the past that you cannot change.

After a little time, we began to learn some of what they had known: that a compound of mullein and rue, sweet cicely and mustard oil makes an excellent syrup for quieting a cough; that boiled willow bark eases aches and fevers; that betony, bruised for a green plaster, speeds mending of wounds and scrapes.