"It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Healing, Hurts, Healed, Sorry, Words

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"It is incredible how many hurts can be healed by the two words, 'I'm sorry."

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"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."

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"Bitterness and resentment are a bottomless well. They can only be healed by the phenomenon of someone else's sorrow rising to your level of pain... it never happens - save yourself endless hurt."

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"[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period."

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"We cry to release the soul of its pain."

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"Forgiving isn't something you do for someone else. It's something you do for yourself. It's saying, 'You're not important enough to have a stranglehold on me.' It's saying, 'You don't get to trap me in the past. I am worthy of a future."

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"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times Istayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that Iwould not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that myfather worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to comehome to a house that felt too big for us."

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"Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you."

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"We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."

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"There's a problem with wounded birds, Cassie," Connor said. "Either they fly away from you one day, or else they never get better. They stay hurt no matter what you do."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

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"Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?"

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"Positive thoughts precede positive results."

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"A loyal pet is better than a faithless friend."

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"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

Empathy

"I am your earth if you want me to be. I am your sky if you want me to be. I am your sun if you want me to be. I am your world if you want me to be. I am your universe if you want me to be."

Devotion

"No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart's safe."

Empowerment

"The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree."

Growth

"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."

Courage

"Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life."

Purpose

"Don't speak thoughtlessly. Don't worry unnecessarily. Don't work half-heartedly. Don't spend recklessly. Don't give begrudgingly. Don't act self-centeredly. Don't live short-sightedly."

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