Quotes About Healing

Time did not heal wounds for him. Not for someone who could never forget. Their murders were as fresh now as when they occurred. Not just the visuals, but also the emotional hatchet attached to the mental images. They would be until the day he died.

We've all lost somebody close, Tyler. It's how we deal with it that counts, because if you mess that up nothing else really matters.

Because you're trying to take something away from yourself that was taken away from them without their consent." "I've

Each sober breath you draw is an act of grace, my friend said. You are making amends every day you do not use. I found enough comfort in what he said to forgive myself…

Remember that as the drug begins to work, you will feel less suicidal.

It did not eliminate the tumor, but it did restore her missing self-esteem, and that made all the difference in the way she felt.

Next I asked Maria the miracle cure question: If a miracle happened in today's session, what miracle would she be hoping for?

I asked her to imagine that we had a magic button and that if she pushed it, all of her negative thoughts and feelings would instantly disappear, with no effort at all, and she'd immediately feel joyous, even euphoric. Would she push the button?

I told Maria that I didn't have a magic button, but I did have some awesome tools, and I predicted that if we used them, she'd probably feel a whole lot better by the end of the session and might even feel joyful. But I told her I wasn't so sure it would be a good idea to use those tools.

Hope alone is a powerful antidepressant.

through the world's body, liberating the knots of accumulated pain.

If you decide, however, that the purpose of your intimacy is the passionate transmission of love, the rejuvenative healing of sexual energy, and the cultivation of heart through your mutual commitment to spiritual awakening, then be careful. Don't force your woman to be your on-call accountant.

Every believer is made complete when placed under the complete claim of Christ, and all the spiritual ills of our world find their only cure in him.

Jesus touches the one who was untouchable and cleanses even the worst impurity.

Isn't it easier to forgive than to hate? Until we learn how to forgive, that sort of thing is going to keep on happening. He pointed at the tall pillars of smoke rising to the north. Hate is a sterile thing, Belgarion.

An injured man would heal in time, and his pain would gradually diminish and ultimately disappear, because injury was a part of the human condition. A man was born to be hurt from time to time, and the mechanism for recovery was born with him.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it. (on the wall of a bedroom at a recovery house for alcoholics and drug addicts)

I don't want to hurt myself. I want to stop hurting.

You must have been traumatized beyond fucking belief

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.

That sometimes human beings have to just sit in one place and, like, hurt.

this was why mothers were so obsessively, consumingly, drivenly, and yet somehow narcissistically loving of you, their kid: the mothers are trying frantically to make amends for a murder neither of you quite remember.

He'd cure himself by excess.

daily visual reminder of the depths drink sunk him to, so Mrs. O. had gone around with her nose bent over flat against her left cheek—Bud O.'d tagged her with a left cross—until U.H.I.D. referred her to Al-Anon, which