Quotes About Healing

I can say I have forgiven my captors. That being said, I never want to see them again. I'm not OK with they did to me.

It has been difficult to get back on the saddle, particularly after getting whiplash and concussion, but it's just about understanding that sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to get back on my bike for week.'

I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot.

I am not married anymore. I hate marriage... but it's okay now.

Acting probably saved my life. It gave me a home and a safe place to let out all of my emotions and have it be okay.

Music is a very powerful thing. If I'm angry, I can write a song about it, and it seems to make everything okay.

I don't want to be callous about it, but we all seemed to get over the Oklahoma bombing pretty quickly, and we're never going to get over 9/11.

We forget some of the oldest medicines we have are love and compassion, and they can be deployed by everyone.

Being injured has harmed me on and off the field in a lot of ways.

Chords that were broken will vibrate once more.

I can't hurt any more than I've been hurt, I can't cry any more than I've cried. I've been to the highest of highs and lowest of lows, so one day I'm going to find my middle ground and be happy.

I learned that, with grief, you have to take it one day at a time and learn how to find the happiness amid the heartbreak.

It is okay to feel in control one minute and out of control the next. We have to love ourselves fully and give ourselves grace to feel. It is the only way we can truly heal.

It's one of the things that 'Everwood' - what makes a great 'Everwood' episode is when it makes you laugh and cry, sometimes at the same time. From the first season, we've always had the chance to deal with death in a very real way, in a way that a lot of other shows can't or don't.

I think that everybody, at one time or another, has been betrayed and lied to, and it's about the pain, and it's about the healing process, and it's about how do you get past that and move on.

As we know, forgiveness of oneself is the hardest of all the forgivenesses.

Only love can heal hatred.

Whatever terrible things may have happened to you, only one thing allows them to damage your core self, and that is continued belief in them.

It doesn't make sense that there is only one way of dealing with cancer.

You don't need to exorcise your personal demons onstage.

Those moments onstage when you realize what you and your compatriots are doing matters - someone in that room needs to hear that story, someone needs to escape or heal or learn or breathe, and remember, we're all in this together.

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

Of all the surgeries I've had, there's not much left to operate on. I am totally bionic.

Families that have addicted members learn to operate with secrecy.