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Quotes About Healing

That it's caring that heals, not theory. Good the world over. And it may even be that in the end all problems are spiritual problems. As moonminded as Carl Jung was he was probably right about that. Keeping
~ Cormac McCarthy
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift
~ Cormac McCarthy
You believe that the loss of those you loved has absolved you of all else.
~ Cormac McCarthy
What the Squire has never understood is that forgiveness has a time line. While it's never too late for revenge.
~ Cormac McCarthy
He said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.
~ Cormac McCarthy
And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of those smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Mm-hmm. Sorry. Don't need sorry. Not in this house. Sorry laid the hearth here. Sorry ways and sorry people and heavensent grief and heartache to make you pine for your death.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real. The events that cause them can never be forgotten (135)
~ Cormac McCarthy
Sometimes, when you're sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry. But then the tears come back again all the same, and you fall asleep with the salty taste of them on your lips.
~ Cornelia Funke
He felt Death reaching out to him. But all of a sudden there was something else, too: words. Words that relieved the pain, cooled his brow, and spoke of love, nothing but love... It was his daughter's voice, and the White Women withdrew their pale hands as if they had burned themselves on her love.
~ Cornelia Funke
No. Nothing could make it easier. You lost what you loved. That was death, here as well as there.
~ Cornelia Funke
I libri la rincuoravano quando era triste e scacciavano la noia mentre Mo tagliava, rilegava, incollava pagine ormai logore, rese fragili da anni e anni d'uso sotto le innumerevoli dita che le avevano sfogliate.
~ Cornelia Funke
Do you remember the sound my heart made when it broke?
~ Cornelia Funke
Sometimes, when you're so sad you don't know what to do, it helps to be angry.
~ Cornelia Funke
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.
~ Craig Ferguson
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
~ Craig Ferguson
Every day I ran to that book like it was a bottle of whiskey and crawled inside because it was a world that I had at least some control over, and slowly, in time, it began to take shape.
~ Craig Ferguson
The problem is that many bitter people don't know they are bitter. since they are so convinced that they are right, they can't see their own wrong in the mirror. And the longer the root of bitterness grows, the more difficult it is to remove.
~ Craig Groeschel
Bitterness never draws us closer to God. Bitterness is a nonproductive, toxic emotion, usually resulting from resentment over unmet needs.
~ Craig Groeschel
There is no sin too great for God's grace. There is no habit too big for his healing. There is no label too strong for his love.
~ Craig Groeschel
If you don't handle the hurt properly, their sin becomes a catalyst for your own.
~ Craig Groeschel
Human hearts are not made out of stone. Thank Thor. They can break, and heal, and beat again.
~ Cressida Cowell
Människohjärtan kan krossas, läka och börja slå igen... Kanske är drakhjärtan likadana?
~ Cressida Cowell
To mourn is to touch directly the substance of divine compassion.
~ Cynthia Bourgeault