Quotes About Healing

Para la chica del báculo, la de los ojos bonitos, la que no quiero volver a ver llorar.

No tienes ni la menor idea de lo que ha significado para mi recoger todos los pedazos de mis sueños rotos" Shi-Mae

Los corazones, sabes..., se vuelven más duros y resistentes con cada golpe que reciben.

Mientras no seas capaz de mirar al pasado sin dolor, nunca te forjarás una nueva identidad y un destino diferente».

No tienes la menor idea de lo que ha significado para mí recoger todos los pedazos de mis sueños rotos. Y nunca lo entenderás. Si me hubieses matado anoche, no me habrías hecho más daño del que me has hecho ya.

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

Solo comprendiendo al niño que vive en nuestro interior, podemos acceder a la verdadera dimensión de nuestras falencias y nuestros miedos, y desde esa realidad emocional, ver qué recursos tenemos para mejorar nuestra vida de adultos. Es indispensable comprender que dependemos de nuestra realidad emocional. Y que tendremos que encontrar la propia voz para nombrarla.

resentment, the emotion that, Jane Amery would write, 'nails every one of us onto the cross of his ruined past.'

The post-war nightmares caused my life to crumble, but thanks to a confrontation with God through the evangelist Billy Graham, I committed my life to Christ. Love replaced the hate I had for you. Christ said, "Forgive your enemies and pray for them.

Everyone thinks we found this broken down horse and fixed him. But he fixed us. Every one of us.

Some former POWs became almost feral with rage. For many men, seeing an Asian person or overhearing a snippet of Japanese left them shaking, weeping, enraged, or lost in flashbacks. One former POW, normally gentle and quiet, spat at every Asian person he saw. At Letterman General Hospital just after the war, four former POWs tried to attack a staffer who was of Japanese ancestry, not knowing that he was an American veteran. Troubled former POWs found nowhere to turn.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when they make their tormentors suffer.

The paradox of vengefulness is that it makes men dependent upon those who have harmed them, believing that their release from pain will come only when their tormentors suffer.

At that moment, something shifted sweetly inside him. It was forgiveness, beautiful and effortless and complete. For Louie Zamperini, the war was over.

In a single, silent moment, his rage, his fear, his humiliation and helplessness, had fallen away. That morning, he believed, he was a new creation. Softly, he wept.

Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

Olivia watched him through a blur of tears, despising the futility of it. For there was nothing she could say to comfort a man whose family was long dead; there was no balm to heal wounds that scored a man's soul; and there was no way to make a man believe in the ties that bind.

The human heart must be a strong and resilient thing, Daphne decided when she awoke the following morning. She was surprised to find that she was no longer in the throes of wrenching heartbreak and pain. Instead, in a strange way, she felt as if she had been reborn.

But then again—if one doesn't forgive someone, doesn't one, in a sense, lose that person forever?

Family members must forgive one another.

What are the words to say to someone who gave you back your life, who believed that you still had a soul, who acknowledged how bad it was to feel? Shouldn't there be another language for this? Different words altogether?

Los que no perdonan atraviesan un río de aguas malsanas y se quedan a vivir en la orilla de allá.

I know you didn't have much time with Sam. And it isn't fair. But that doesn't mean it was any less real. That's something to hold on to, so hold on to it" -Loretta

There had been little hurts and big ones and she could hardly tell them apart, and it all sounded crazy anyway.