Quotes About Healing

I finally got the dad I always wanted and then he left. At 18, 19 years old, I was really upset and had to work through that.

I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

My two best friends have gone through break-ups that were really hard, and I remember thinking, 'How could this be so hard and important to them?' Literally for months they were really upset and they couldn't get over it. I had no idea what it was like. And now that I've been through it, I totally understand.

'Johnny' was a coping mechanism who could take those things which could have ordinarily destroyed me, by tweaking my past and throwing it back out there, getting laughs from things that would have otherwise upset me.

When you split up with someone, someone that you're seriously in love with, it takes a lot of time before you even realise that you're upset. You know? It just hits you.

For me, being upset is different than being frustrated. Frustration, it's a little more deep inside. Being upset, you can get over it the next day.

You need to mourn, you need to be upset, to give yourself time to replenish. Then you use it all as fuel to get stronger.

The upside to anger? Getting it out of your system. You got to express your anger. Then you have room for more positive things. If I hold something in a long time, and then I speak it, it's amazing how the light shines so much brighter.

Today, the practice of medicine in an urban, technological society rarely provides either the time or the environment to encourage a doctor-patient relationship that promotes healing.

By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.

It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.

Regardless of the source of our pain, we must accept that God knows, God loves, and God is at work.

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

It has always seemed to me that broken things, just like broken people, get used more; it's probably because God has more pieces to work with.

The work of restoration cannot begin until a problem is fully faced.

Simply put, Redeeming Love is the most powerful work of fiction you will ever read.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

Homoeopathy is supposed to work miracles.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.

That probably greatest of narcissistic wounds -- not to have been loved just as one truly was -- cannot heal without the work of mourning.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

An aching tooth is better out than in. To lose a rotting member is a gain.

Carrying a grudge is difficult work that brings nothing of value. Forgive, and be free.