Quotes About Healing

Do not hold this pain of what has happened to you close to your heart, Isabelle. You must let it go. No matter how painful. It will ruin you. If you keep silent, if you swallow it, it will eat you like a cancer." I

I tell you now, better to spit it all out, cry a hundred days over this matter, an entire year, than ruin your life over it. You must acknowledge it now, so that it has no power over you. I do not assume to know what you are going through, but I do know something about hate.

Do not hold on to the bitterness, Isabelle, it will eat at your body like worms, and you will ruin your future because of it. I was not always this unhappy. I know what people call me behind my back

She knew from her own experience what a great labour it was, binding up again all the mess of self, which in your extremity you had unbound.

Christians are people who are reconciled to God through Christ. As a consequence, we have been given "the ministry of reconciliation" (2 Cor. 5:18–21). So, a committed member strives to repair breaches as quickly as possible, even before continuing in public worship (Matt. 5:23–24).

Take a sad song and make it better.

Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song and make it better.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

Grief is a normal healthy response to loss

People you care about leaving you with hurtful goodbyes are more likely to be a means to an end, but not the end themselves.

Love can mend your life or love can break your heart.

Hold no man responsible for what he says in his grief.

The intersection of multiple forms of oppression complicates the experience of trauma and the trauma recovery process (Holzman, 1996).

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Friendship and chocolate cake—they do not heal all ills, but they certainly help.

When you're a writer, the cure for whatever ails you is always writing.

If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstances.

Religion is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance.

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

Art is the means we have of undoing the damage of haste. It's what everything else isn't.

The only thumbnail you'll get from me is this: no one knows what's really wrong with you but you; no one can find a cure for it but you; no one but you can identify it as a cure; and once you find it, no one but you can do anything about it.

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending.

I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.