Quotes About Healing

There were times I felt I'd never get my life back. Am I ever going to be normal and go out with my friends and have a beer and not think I am going to wake up at 3 A. M. and have anxious thoughts about what normal people are doing?

I'm not normally the kind of person who holds on to grudges, I'm really not.

Music is there to access those dark emotional corners that we don't normally get too close to.

I'm learning more and more from every reading that I do. When people come through they're not talking about heaven or hell, but I definitely see that there's a continuation of life and that we do still have the ability to connect to our loved ones and the love that we share with them.

Growing up without a dad and not having a father figure - I noticed a hole in my life. For the longest time, I would run away from my problems instead of confronting them. I felt empty at one point. Not depressed, but empty.

As a novelist, I have always been interested in how people come to terms with difficult, life-altering events.

And the thing about healing is sometimes you feel like you're making daily progress, and then, from nowhere, your legs get taken out, and you feel like you start again.

You can only get hurt so much before you get numb.

The nurses were all angels in my eyes.

I actually have an absolute respect for nurses and hospitals.

My mother had a very difficult childhood, having seen her own mother kill herself. So she didn't always know how to be the nurturing mother that we all expect we should have.

Bitterness is cancer - it eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

My mom obviously had a problem.

Music has healed me on so many different occasions, and I want my music to be able to do that for someone else.

As long as you don't forgive, who and whatever it is will occupy rent-free space in your mind.

She had built up a lot of control over all these months, but suddenly it just hurt so bad that she bawled right there at the table, two seconds after she saw the broken ring. It was the first real big cry she'd had about Gary in a long time, a month or so. She was not sure there was any such thing anymore as Gary. She didn't know if that was where her belief rested. He was a lot out of her mind. He might really be dead.

Let us try to fill this room with the healing grace of the greatest of all physicians, Jesus Christ.

She started to try to cover the sad marks of what she had done. Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks. It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends, never easy.

Miss Phœbe released the low key of the organ. But her work had been well done. The note that she struck had beaten down the doors of a closed memory; and Father Abram held his lost Aglaia close in his arms.

Las épocas viejas nunca desaparecen completamente y todas las heridas, aun las más antiguas, manan sangre todavía.

Ahora bien, todo desprendimiento provoca una herida

a cut cannot heal, unless you leave it alone. I'll open mine daily, leaving bones exposed

God, make him well, please. God, help him breathe, please. God, help him to see, please. A sound heart is the life of the flesh.