Quotes About Healing

Entierro mi sombra gigante en la fosa de mi corazón, una especie de lavadora con sangre en lugar de agua y piel en lugar de ropa. Tiempo de secado: toda una vida.

Me curo de este amor perdido a golpes de consuelo, es una medicina dulce que a veces pica un poco, pero que me permite reconstruirme.

Era la época en que todavía llevaba mi corazón hecho pedazos metidos en una caja de zapatos.

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.

Forgiveness achieves more than vengeance.

He has the greatest love who forgives his greatest enemies.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

Love's whispers drown out sorrow's echoes.

Tears are the sound the heart makes when it breaks.

The wisest words come out of the most damaged mouths.

The only way through is to bury it deep in your gut and let the hot juices work on it for a while. Soon enough you forget whatever it was that pained you to begin with.

I stayed there on the floor like that for a long, long time. Eating and crying. Crying and eating.

What doesn't kill you very often makes you weaker. What doesn't kill you can leave you limping for the rest of your days. What doesn't kill you can make you scared to leave your house, or even your bedroom, and have you trembling, or mumbling incoherently, or leaning with your head on a window pane, wishing you could return to the time before the thing that didn't kill you.

To lose someone you love is the very worst thing in the world. It creates an invisible hole that you feel you are falling down and will never end. People you love make the world real and solid and when they suddenly go away forever, nothing feels solid any more.

Hate is a pointless emotion to have inside you. It is like eating a scorpion to punish it for stinging you.

If you have ever believed a depressive wants to be happy, you are wrong. They could not care less about the luxury of happiness. They just want to feel an absence of pain.

But people get over grief. They get over even the most serious grief in a matter of years. If not get over then at least live beside. And the way they do this is by investing in other people, through friendship, through family, through teaching, through love.

Pain is a debt paid off with time.

Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

And for three weeks I was trapped in my own mind again. But this time, I had weapons. One of them, maybe the most important, was this knowledge: I have been ill before, then well again. Wellness is possible.

Forgiving other people is great practice for forgiving yourself when the time comes.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

Love is anxiety's greatest killer. Love is an outward force. It is our road out of our own terrors, because anxiety is an illness that wraps us up in our own nightmares. [...] Forcing yourself to see the world through love's gaze can be healthy. Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.