Quotes About Healing

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. Page 316

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.

In a healthy individual, a broken bone that has healed properly is strongest where it was once broken. You have not lost any life, Henry told himself. You will still get your fair share of years. Yet the quality of his life changed. Once you've been struck by violence, you acquire companions that never leave you entirely: Suspicion, Fear, Anxiety, Despair, Joylessness. The natural smile is taken from you and the natural pleasures you once enjoyed lose their appeal.

That's the nature of grief: It's a creature with many arms but few legs, and it staggers about, searching for support.

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

And I survived because I made a point of forgetting.

To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you.

His heart is expended that way, of loving the single, particular individual. He loved Clara with every fibre of his being, but now he has nothing left. Or rather, he has learned to live with her absence, and he has no wish to fill that absence; that would be like losing her a second time. Instead he would prefer to be kind to everyone, a less personal but broader love.

that it took him nearly the entire walk to notice what was happening: his back didn't hurt. Didn't hurt a bit. Heyyy … Ted thought. Maybe I can

Jenni ha sido una mujer dura desde entonces que corre millas y millas incluso en esos días en que la nieve cubre todo Idaho. Quizá, de alguna manera, esté automedicándose contra problemas profundamente arraigados, pero quizá (parafraseando a Bill Clinton) no había nada de malo en Jenni que no pudiera ser arreglado por lo que Jenni tenía de bueno.

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There's a fine edge to new grief, it severs nerves, disconnects reality--there's mercy in a sharp blade. Only with time, as the edge wears, does the real ache begin.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Sa lei perché la gente ora legge più libri di quanto non abbia mai fatto prima? Perché la terrificante catastrofe della guerra le ha fatto comprendere di aver la mente ammalata. Il mondo soffriva di ogni sorta di febbri celebrali, e dolori, e disordini, e non lo sapeva. Ora le nostre angosce mentali sono anche troppo manifeste. Leggiamo tutti avidamente, in fretta, cercando di scoprire, passato il disturbo, che cosa c'era che non andava nella nostra mente.

No sir, I don't know why, but my eyes don't cry no more.

Poetry spills from the cracks of a broken heart, but flows from one which is loved.

Balanced and restorative justice is a new approach to juvenile crime that conceives of crime as an act that not only harms people but also violates relationships in a community. Thus, rather than a retributive approach, in which the state punishes an offender, restorative justice practices emphasize healing of the victim, the offender, and the community.

Sleep is not on good terms with broken hearts. It will have nothing to do with them.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself.

In the expression of grief lies recovery from grief itself. Nor

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

Work was the disease and the cure.

Perhaps, just perhaps, you're there. How little he needs. Just love. More love. — Christopher Wiseman, from "Bedside Manners," Poetry of Presence: An Anthology of Mindfulness Poems , eds. Phyllis Cole-Dai & Ruby R. Wilson (Grayson Books, 2017)

You touched my flawed life so gently with love burning upward in dark steady flame burning me, burning me into healing.