Quotes About Healing

Send love to your fears

reason, say the elders, was so that you and future generations would not have to carry the pain.

Sing, for it may be that your thoughts have plucked Some medicable herb to make our grief Less bitter.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

Grief is itself a medicine.

I lost my mother when I was three years old. She had some small injury – a piece of metal pierced her foot – but it went septic, and because she couldn't afford a real doctor she saw a man in the village instead. He must have made it worse. Certainly he failed to cure her. She died quite unnecessarily; at least that is what I feel.

Exactly, what form this alteration has taken. I will never know. I don't feel sedated, jittery or drugged. I simply feel normal-as if I had been driving a car all these years with the parking brake on, and now it is off. I feel as if the real me has returned, perhaps all the way from childhood, where she lived before The Beast arrived.

Art is not the handmaid of politics. It is its own remedy! And its healing is sacral.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Gospel comfort may be known by the vessel it is poured into, which is a broken heart.

As the unicorn heals the waters by dipping his horn in them, that all the beasts may drink without danger, so Christ hath healed creature-enjoyments, that there is no death now in the saints' cup.

The hurt heart heals, but the healed heart still hurts. -- From "Exile" in Finding a Form

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Blessed are they who heal you of self-despisings. Of all services which can be done to man, I know of none more precious.

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Demerol made it all seem okay.

two of the most fascinating yet troublesome topics in moral philosophy—forgiveness and redemption—issues that must be dealt with together. Without forgiveness there can be no redemption, and forgiveness that does not grant redemption is hollow.

I wish to be washed clean of my old life. To let go of my tide of sorrows and find my way to a new shore.

There is a deeper hurt than anything sustained by the body, and it's the wounding of the soul. It's the feeling that you've been abandoned by everyone, even God. It's the most alone you'll ever be. A wounded body heals itself, but there is a scar.

Everything that's been done to us we carry forever.

He knew there was no magic to wipe clean the slate of memory. You just learned how to move on.

I'm tired of feeling mad. I'm tired of feeling sad. . . I just want things to be okay again.

It was a feeling that should have been familiar to us by then, but does anyone ever get used to having their heart broken?

He'd never slept with Molly before. Before, the bed had been a place of brief coming together and of leaving. It felt god to lie beside her with the early sun beyond the window and the cabin full of qiet. It was peaceful and healing to be with her and not be cut apart by guilt.