"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."

Healing, Responsibility, Happiness, Compassion, Self-Care

8

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."

Exlpore more Healing quotes

"Herbs may be bitter, but cure."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Healing, Bitterness, Cure, Health

"It's all fine to say, "Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget-and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change."

John Steinbeck, American Author

Healing, Time, Pain, Suffering

"I prayed for someone to love me as much as I love you. Eventually I came to see that that "someone" was me."

Kate McGahan, American Author

Healing, Self-Love, Growth, Love

"A wound won't heal if you keep touching it."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Healing, Wound, Growth, Pain

"Rest leads to renewal of spirit, soul and strength."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Healing, Rest, Renewal, Spirit, Soul

"With a strong spirit , you heal every bruise."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Healing, Spirit, Strength, Power

"It's better to move on now and feel a pinch, than hold on and later treat a wound."

Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Tanzanian Author

Healing, Truth, Regret, Power

"Never be bitter, become better. A testimony is pain that has been reassigned."

Johnnie Dent Jr., American Author

Healing, Growth, Strength, Pain

"I have a big hole in my heart, ' I said. 'But it'll close over.'I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil, ' she said. 'But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?'That's good advice, ' I said. 'I hope I can manage it."

Charlaine Harris, American Author

Healing, Pain, Advice, Emotion

"If something traumatizes you, please do not think that your life is coming to an end. You will still have opportunities to resume with your life by speaking up and seeking for assistance."

Saaif Alam, Indian Writer

Healing, Trauma, Truth, Wisdom, Observation

Explore more quotes by Sharon Salzberg

"How we traverse the space between us when conflict arises has a profound effect on the health and longevity of our relationships."

Conflict

"In those moments when we realize how much we cannot control, we can learn to let go."

Mindset

"It takes a special courage to challenge the rigid confines of our accustomed story. It's not easy to radically alter our views about where happiness comes from but it's eminently possible."

Mindset

"The practice of loving-kindness is about cultivating love as a trans-formative strength."

Love

"Even when we do our very best to treat those close to us with utmost respect and understanding, conflict happens. That's life. That's human nature."

Relationship

"Without equanimity, we might give love to others only in an effort to bridge the inevitable and healthy space that always exists between two people."

Relationship

"A relationship is the union of two psychological systems."

Relationship

"When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy."

Connection

"From the Buddhist point of view, it is true that emptiness is a characteristic of all of life - if we look carefully at any experience we will find transparency, insubstantiality, with no solid, unchanging core to our experience. But that does not mean that nothing matters."

Philosophy

"Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can't be rushed or engineered."

Forgiveness