Quotes About Healing

The body itself singlemindedly seeks health. —TPS3 Deleted Session October 13, 1975

And those you never forgive you find impossible to forget. — Jane Urquhart, The Underpainter (McClelland & Stewart, 1997)

One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. That word is love. (Sophocles) by Adam Harford, Duke of Harford, from the last page of Sophie's Salvation

I think I got a bruise from landing on you. I hear bacon is real good for healing a bruise.

Ranger raised my bruised and bloody wrist to his mouth and kissed it.

Ranger raised my bruised and bloody wrist to his mouth and kissed it. "I'm sorry to have to do this to you, but there

If sinners were so unhappy, why would they prefer their suffering? But now I knew why. Without my wounds, who was I?

That was what she really wanted. To forget so thoroughly she'd never have another memory again, the bitter so bitter you gave up the sweet.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

Take my advice. Stay away from all broken people.

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But i couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked...

I almost said, you're not broken, you're just going through something. But I couldn't. She knew. There was something terribly wrong with her, all the way inside. She was like a big diamond with a dead spot in the middle. I was supposed to breathe life into that dead spot, but it hadn't worked.

In a perverse way, I was glad for the stitches, glad it would show, that there would be scars. What was the point in just being hurt on the inside?

I'd spent the last three years trying to build up some kind of a skin, so I wouldn't drip with blood every time I brushed up against something.

They say time heals all wounds but they're lying

I felt just the way Billie Holiday sounded, like I'd cried all I could and it wasn't enough.

This ragged heart, she said, pulling at her kimono. I should rip it out and bury it for compost.

One death did not salve another.

I wasn't beautiful anymore. Now I looked like what I was, a raw wound.

This ragged heart," she said, pulling at her kimono. "I should rip it out and bury it for compost.

the gamelan created in the listener a brain wave beyond all alphas and betas and thetas, a brain wave that paralyzed the normal channels of thought and forced new ones to grow outside them, in the untouched regions of the mind, like parallel blood vessels that form to accommodate a damaged heart.

That was how you did it. You let go, you left all that behind, you refused to remember. You let the dark in.

I must go down to the seas again to find where I buried the hatchet with Yesterday.

Third, COAs' greatest difficulties are in the area of their relationship with themselves. Their greatest difficulty is the lack of ability to experience themselves as valuable and worthy and lovable. Their greatest assets are a capability of offering you the sense that you are valuable and worthy and lovable. There is much to be gained from being involved with a COA.