Quotes About Healing

He had not been right, had not been normal. And then his natural predisposition had been encouraged and further corrupted by "environmental factors." That was what his first psychologist had called it. "Environmental factors." Like being raped by a thirty-three-year-old man at the age of seven, Doctor? she'd wanted to yell. Is that an "environmental factor?

He didn't just remember his grief, he relearned it.

he didn't drink to numb his senses. He drank to try to cleanse himself from the inside out. He pressed

Closure's a sham invented by talk-show hosts and self-help authors.

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a covenant between equals. Al Sharpton always says, "We're all created equal, but we don't all end up equal.

You stand with the least likely to succeed until success is succeeded by something more valuable: kinship. You stand with the belligerent, the surly, and the badly behaved until bad behavior is recognized for the language it is: the vocabulary of the deeply wounded and of those whose burdens are more than they can bear.

Feed the soul beauty, and it will heal itself.

Soul health turns into whole health. Soul sickness turns into whole sickness.

Healing comes to the soul through the power of connection. Our connection with God is our connection to healing—spirit, soul, and body

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

To all whom the cloud of depression has not yet lifted, there is hope. Let's walk together through these pages on a journey that brings great rewards. May you sense a new direction and peace.

Maybe it was always simple: Loss surrounds us. Who would deny it? We ourselves are loss, are lost.

when poets go back by way of memory and imagination to past traumas to engage or re-engage them, then those poets are taking control—are shaping and ordering and asserting power over the hurtful events. In lyric poems, they're both telling the story from their point of view and also shaping the experience into an order (the poem) that shows they have power over what (in the past) overpowered them.

The dead sing us songs I'm learning to answer.

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.

Many people say that time heals all wounds, but that simply is not true. People can become more bitter, arrogant and spiteful with age.

Even if we did not create the acrimony, even if we weren't the ones who created the divide, we can be bridge-builders, healers, harmonizers, and a vital part of the solution.

You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping.

Some say that you know real love when you realise the only person in the world who can console you is the one who has hurt you.

Jusqu'où faut-il s'enfuir pour guérir une absence? Jusqu'où faut-il s'enfuir pour échapper à sa douleur, à son ombre, à sa vie?

Martin, lui, pensa à Gabrielle. Elle était son énigme, son amour et sa blessure. Pour toujours et à jamais. Car il y a des douleurs dans la vie dont on ne peut pas guérir.

Leurs regards se croisèrent et dans les yeux de son cadet il discerna ce qu'il avait déjà remarqué dans les yeux de certains patients: la tristesse de ceux qui n'ont jamais guéri de leur enfance.

Certains disent qu'on reconnaît le grand amour lorsqu'on s'aperçoit que le seul être au monde qui pourrait vous consoler est justement celui qui vous a fait mal.