Quotes About Healing

because when you lose someone, when you aren't able to save them, it hurts too much.

Repression isn't the answer. I know that. It's one of the things that punish the body for what's closed up in the mind. It's always so much easier to analyze someone else, always much harder to see things when it's yourself.

Grudges are negative energy turned inward

you can't forgive without trust

Then she remembered what her mother called heart-sleep. That sleep a wounded heart needed to help it heal.

A broken spirit is more debilitating than a broken body.

Her doctor called it depression, but Naomi knew that as bad as depression could be, the dark times were worse. In the dark times her mother took too many pills.

One of the layers was old hurts. How had he managed to bury that? She knew a lot about old hurts, and just how hard they were to keep down in the cellar of things. He didn't wear his wounds as a point of pride, and many did. He might brood over them from time to time, and she appreciated a good brood herself. But he didn't appear to let those old wounds, those old scars run his life. On

There's no point in hate, Sophie. It'll only damage you.

soon as the medicine makes you well.

I loved him very much. Losing him cut me in two, the part that just wanted to lie down and die, and the part that had to go through the grief and the anger and the motions—and live." "Takes courage to live." Her

But it's a wound that can't fully heal, isn't it, not to have the full love of those who made you. The indifference of Iona's parents, the full mess of Meara's." "Which is worse, do you think?

I've been so unhappy without you. Maybe it'll help to know I haven't had a decent night's sleep since you left. It does. Her lips curved when he laughed. I hope you suffered. And I'll remind you of how much you suffered the next time you try to decide what's best for me. He combed his fingers through her hair. I'm what's best for you.

Roarke is her everything, as she is his. It matters, I think, that these two people who came from abuse and viciousness found each other, helped make each other into better people. Love opened them to more.

How can you fully open your heart to someone new, when in fact...what you really need is closure from your past.

I want two scars, one on each of my shoulder blades." He shrugged in confusion. "What do you mean?" "Two scars," I repeated, "for where my wings used to be, where my wings were torn away from me.

And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

The damaged loves the damaged.

The truth is you can be orphaned again and again and again. The truth is, you will be. And the secret is, this will hurt less and less each time until you can't feel a thing. Trust me on this.

If we can forgive what's been done to us . . . If we can forgive what we've done to others . . . If we can leave all of our stories behind. Our being villains or victims. Only then can we maybe rescue the world.

Sex pretty much cures everything.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.