Quotes About Healing

The statute of limitations has expired on most of our childhood traumas.

Forgiveness, I came to see, is about cleaning up the memory by renouncing and flushing vengeful feelings about other people.

When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!—

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love...

Tears are the safety-valve of the heart when too much pressure is laid on.

When you allow the tears to flow out, you're allowing relief and hope and faith and all sorts of good things to come in.

Unless you have been very, very lucky, you have undoubtedly experienced events in your life that have made you cry. So unless you have been very, very lucky, you know that a good, long session of weeping can often make you feel better, even if your circumstances have not changed one bit.

Invisible tears are the hardest to wipe away. Just let it out, my friend.

...Though much it seems a wonder and a wo That one so loved should be so early lost, And hallowed tears may unforbidden flow To mourn the blossom that we cherished most: Yet all is well; God's good design I see, That where our treasure is, our hearts may be!

A light is from our household gone, A voice we loved is stilled. A place is vacant at our hearth Which never can be filled; A gentle heart, that throbbed but now With tenderness and love, Has hushed its weary throbbings here, To throb in bliss above...

Dreams are free therapy, but you can only get appointments at night.

Pure water is the world's first and foremost medicine.

Guilt, grief, regret cut deeper than the dimensions of the soul itself

Sometimes we can't let go of the pain because we think it's the only thing holding us together.

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself?

Paingry: A state of anger caused by long-term pain.

Have you blossoms and books, those solaces of sorrow?

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget," is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." A forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it never can be shown against the man.

He who forgives ends the quarrel.

Forgiveness is my function as the light of the world.

Illusions about yourself and the world are one. That is why all forgiveness is a gift to yourself.

Forgive. It doesn't erase their crime but why should you do the time. Let go of resentment.

Sometimes you can make people forget the past with a present.

Some secrets are fires so scorching, the only way to quench the burn is to tell someone.