Healing The Past Quotes

But shame is like a wound that is never exposed and therefore never heals.

~ Andreas Eschbach

My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.

~ Steve Goodier

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.

~ Aberjhani

I can no longer stay quiet in this world, I have a voice and I feel it reverberate off my internal walls, making its slow climb upward until its melody can be heard all around.

~ Elin Stebbins Waldal

She’d lost so much in the process of becoming Zyne, but somewhere in the middle of it all, she’d found herself. Her heritage had shattered her illusions of a tranquil life. Destiny swept behind in a blaze, decimating everything she tried to hold on to. She was left alone, like the solitary tree standing after a forest fire. She’d thought she would crumble to ash, just another memory on the wind. But as blackened pieces of her cracked and fell away, she saw the truth. Under all that charred wreckage was the heartwood. Bruised. Scarred. But still good. Still capable of growth. When she looked in the mirror, she no longer saw a victim, but a survivor.

~ Gwen Mitchell

I admire successful men and women who endured and overcome unusual circumstances to fulfill their dreams.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

You create your own reality

~ Allison Scott

The gift of life, gives you the greatest opportunity to live and chance to rise above any situation. With hopeful attitude you can overcome any struggle.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.

~ Tom Althouse

The gift of the Sabbath must be treasured. Blessed are you who honour this day.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Love is divine.Forgiveness is divine. Forgive for the love for yourself and others. Forgiveness is a spiritual healing for the person who forgives.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.

~ Corallie Buchanan

Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)

~ Stephen Levine

The hardest thing to ever do is to reveal the naked soul to the world. However, in doing so brings healing, growth, strength, and powerful inspiration!

~ H.e. Olsen

I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.

~ Lisa J. Shultz

The shift from thinking that I must feel forgiveness to the practice of repetitive giving forgiveness has helped me in my healing journey.

~ Lisa J. Shultz

[Margaret] went to a talk on parenting at the end of the school year where the speaker had said that doing good things, charitable things, was actually a selfish act, because it made you feel good. She has been mulling that ever since. Should she do something selfless, something good? Should she reach out to someone who really needs her forgiveness? Would this make her feel better?

~ Janice Y.k. Lee

I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at peace, accepting that they won’t and can’t help me out of the mess they created. But, I’m the best qualified for that job anyway and I’m happy with the job I’m doing.

~ Christina Enevoldsen

Universe, tell me about the time when the world was kind, when words didn't shatter the souland leave people bleeding into the crease of their smile. tell me about the time when people wouldn't hide behind sarcasm or humor to mask themselves from dying slowly on the inside. Universe, tell me the names of all the stars in your sky, because I may have met one the other night.His presence in my thoughts, his touch in my heart and no longer a dream but laying next to me now. There are marks on my body from the energy of our light.He is broken, like me, a fallen star. Yet, aspires to soar and believes he can fly. I too believe in dreams.Universe, do you think you can do somethingabout all the lonely souls? the broken? the fallen stars?There are so many of us.And what about the hurt? the pain? the restlessness?Oris this all part of something bigger, a lesson to be learnt? so we can become a part of you?Universe, it’s me, Please hear my soul speak, my heart beat,I've learnt my lesson.Forgive me.Offer me redemption or bring me back to you.Universe, are you there?

~ Rina Nath

Forgiveness doesn’t make one person better, or the other guy smaller. Forgiving is just letting go. It’s turning back toward being what we really are.

~ Edward Fahey

Forgive someone today. Especially if that someone is you.

~ Gina Greenlee

Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Healing is not about moving on or “getting over it,” it’s about learning to make peace with our pain and finding purpose in our lives again.

~ Shirley Kamisky

Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

~ Cassandra Clare

Time possesses emotional potency. For persons whom suffer from of bereavement, time possesses a healing capacity. Passage of time cures heartache by dimming the mind’s attunement to painful occurrences. For some people, the passage of time is akin to placing a welcomed physical boundary between themselves and past horrors. Passage of time allows us to forget and the ability to forget is medicinal. Time acts as a mental barrier between our present mental state and the pain that we once felt.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

The flowers are so beautiful, but God's love is infinitely stronger for us than the beauty of ALL flowers and all beautiful things combined!

~ Craig Compton

It’s true: A slice of pound cake does wonders to thaw the coldest of days.

~ Sasha Martin

Something I'm not ready to name works itself under the grip of Charlies death and loosens it, and keeps the nightmare at bay when I fall back asleep.

~ Trish Doller

Love doesn't hurt, love doesn't cut, and in dark times love doesn't cease.Love heals, love seals, it drains out the world and leaves you with peace.

~ Palle Oswald

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

~ Aberjhani

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From The Gardens of Ailana handbook for healers & mystics

~ Edward Fahey

The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.

~ Joyce Meyer

I am not where I need to be, but, thank God, I am not where I used to be.

~ Joyce Meyer

Embrace the love of God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Music is a great healer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

In many cases, people hold on so tightly to their past pains to avoid letting go of the “excuses” and the fear of having to be accountable for their life.

~ Yvonne Pierre

May your hope keep you joyful.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever it is that you think you have discovered. You must forget it.


~ Diane Samuels

Healing doesn't just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

~ Robert Brault