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Healing Quotes


"You must understand why you felt what you did, and why you no longer need to feel it."


"I took him to the river and said "let's watch something drown, So he took a stoneand I took my necklaceand we threw it all together,the way I always think I will get better in July. Things will change and sounds won't acheand I gave my heart to uncertainty so many times, and so I took him to the river,threw the necklace in the river to slowly watch it drown, or burn, or fade awaylike I've done so many times."


"We spend a lifetime undoing the damage caused by cruelty, neglect, and all manner of lovelessness experienced in our families of origin and in relationships where we simply where we simply did not know what to do."


"Never do a single thing in the anticipation to prove something to someone who has hurt you. If someone has hurt or offended you (whoever that person may be), never perform anything or strive for anything in your life with the mind of proving something to that someone/ to those people. May nothing that you do be done with any thought of them in mind. There is nothing that needs to be proven."


"Tears water the eyes when they have been dry for too long."


"For a long time I spent my weary days in a fog of what might be and what has been and I guess you could say im still learning how to accept what is."


"The worst grudge is being told that you are forgiven, yet your sins are still glowing in their hearts like a burning coal."


"We're all a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us; some you wouldn't believe ever broke and some you will see never grew through the break but one thing certain, everyone is a little broken, it's how we feed our brokenness that defines us."


"Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself."


"Most of the poems I write take 5 minutes, but the words can give a lifetime of relief. Many people that have read my book say it helped them with their grief."


"If you are sad, love will make you happy; afraid, love will make you brave; weak, love will make you strong; and broken, love will make you whole."


"You have powerful storms in your mind? Visit the silent beaches to calm your storms! You have excessive silence in your mind? Find some powerful storms to awaken your mind!"


"It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness."


"Five truly effective prescriptions to remedy a bad day. (You can't overdose.)-Pray; discuss your troubles with God.-List your blessings. (The blue sky, soft cookies, warm socks, etc.)-Call your mom.-Visit an animal shelter and hug a lonely cat.-Visit a nursing home and hug a lonely grandparent."


"Don't let the poison of the past spoil a fruitful future."


"How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could've' and 'should've,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change."


"When you initially forgive, it is like letting go of a hot iron. There is initial pain and the scars will show, but you can start living again."


"Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us."


"For how long will you continue to deal with the pain that comes with the grudges in your heart?"


"Forgiveness can help you to be sane."


"We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some good will indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself."


"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."


"No good can come from beating ourselves up for falling down-for feeling unhappy when we want to feel just the opposite."


"And Beauvoir knew then the man was a saint. He's been touched by any number of medical men and women. All healers, all well intentioned, some kind, some rough. All made it clear they wanted him to live, but none had made him feel that his life was precious, was worth saving, was worth something."


"How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep."


"For with any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. There comes a certain point in such conditions when only three things are possible: first a perpetuation of Satanic pride, secondly tears, and third laughter."


"It was easier to not have to explain, anyway. To not have to tell him that though I'd freed him, saved his people and all of Prythian from Amarantha... I'd broken myself apart. And I didn't think even eternity would be long enough to fix me."
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