Healing Quotes - Page 16

What they did to me does not matter, what matters is I survived the circumstance.

Relieve your pain.
Shedding tears is good for the soul.

This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.

I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.

Sometimes falling apart is the bravest act of all

The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies; it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.

To heal, you have to give yourself to the pain. You cannot avoid facing yourself your whole life.

Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength and weakness, of one’s capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel more pain. But if you can speak it, if you can write it, if you can paint it, it is very healing.

I do not claim to be a healer: only God is the Healer.

This book attempts to
record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a moment in time where all seems lost.

In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.

And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.

Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

Sometimes healing comes after helping someone that is going through the same trauma you went through. Help yourself by helping others.