Quotes About Healing

My daughter had carried within her a story that kept hurting her: Her dad abandoned her. She started telling herself a new story. Her dad had done the best he could. He wasn't capable of giving more. It had nothing to do with her. She could no longer take it personally.

My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways.

Like most New Yorkers I was shell-shocked immediately after 9/11 and couldn't put into words what I was feeling.

As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

I'm very emotional. When I went through my first breakup, I thought it was the end of the world, and I thought I was going to die if I didn't have him in my life. It was good to cry it out and just scream, or call my friends in the middle of the night crying.

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

When I was in desperate trouble for maybe eight or nine years, I went to a neuropsychiatrist.

I don't want to get too detailed and personal, but my parents got divorced when I was about nine. A lot of that had to do with my dad being on the road and that disconnect.

When you are debilitated, and you're very depressed, and you believe there's no hope, you cannot get a better potpourri of down.

You need to learn to forgive yourself first.

All she knew for sure was that the emotional turbulence of the last few months had left her with little energy to take care of herself.

But sometimes, the curveballs end up smacking us in the chest and close to the heart, leaving bruises that never seem to heal.

Si bien, es muy fácil herir a los que amamos, es de verdad difícil curar esas heridas. Aun así, intentar la cura de dicha heridas puede ser una de las experiencias más enriquecedoras de la vida.

We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say..

I didn't want to fall in love with anyone. I wasn't ready for that. I've been through that once, and afterwards I was a mess.

So that's the ghost you been running from. You know, the ghost, the memory. I been watchin' you, workin' day and night, slavin' so hard you barely breath. People do that for three reasons. Either they crazy, or stupid, or tryin' to forget. And with you, I knew you were tryin' to forget. I just didn't know what. - Gus

were finally able to fall back asleep. Early on, all of them had seen a counselor; the kids had drawn

And while it may be normal to feel guilty, it's also important to remember that guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.

How should you stop looking for the girl you love? And tell yourself that it's time to move on ....

but I try to remind myself of the blessed years that we shared—especially now, when I am drowning in riptides of sorrow and loss.

remember that guilt is simply an emotion, and like all emotions, it will eventually pass. Unless you choose to hold on to it.

Aside from the brief period after Victor's death, sleep

And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other's arms and say, I'm sorry.