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"A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal."
"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."
"[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."
"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."
"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."
"We do not escape into philosophy, psychology, and art--we go there to restore our shattered selves into whole ones."
"Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?"
Explore more quotes by John Geddes
"True love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ..."
"Before you, life was desolate - the past hardly worth remembering - and now, each moment a keepsake I can't throw away ..."
"You betrayed me, but after all those years I discover, my tears have wiped the slate clean..."
"I looked in the window, wanting to stay - it rained, yet I remained...because you were so lovely..."
"You say you don't mistrust me, yet you quote Chrysostom - Hell is paved with priests' skulls...."
"You have changed everything for me- you rearranged the furniture and now you've changed the view from my window!..."
"I hardly ever see your profile, but have I told you it's beautiful? - like the soft gentle lines of snow..."
"The fragrance of pine resin is frankincense poured out-a balm of stars and snow and moonlit nights."
"You want the sweetness of our beginning without the bitterness of our struggle - what are you asking - do you want light without shadow? ..."
"Sorrow binds us - I will always cherish you - my only disillusionment is unspoken words ..."
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