In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara
~ Ellen Bass
Many men are broken in spirit because of bitterness.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
Never allow any bitterness to take root in your heart.
If you can believe, you be made well.
Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.
~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving.
~ Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Bruised, beaten, shaken, weakened, tossed, thrown, lost, alone, heard, helped, healed, hope... it still works.
~ N'zuri Za Austin
In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.I can't say goodbye.
~ China Miéville
Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.From an Irish headstone
~ Richard Puz
I have seen many die, surrounded by loved ones, and their last words were ‘I love you.’ There were some who could no longer speak yet with their eyes and soft smile left behind that same healing message. I have been in rooms where those who were dying made it feel like sacred ground. (26)
~ Stephen Levine
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
~ Cheryl Strayed
Miracle: to love more with an irreparable heartache
~ Nicola An
I believe in not trying to control things that are out of my control or none of my business.
~ Tobe Hanson
Pain writes the words, sorrow wields the pen, tears wet the paper, and the story mends the heart.
~ Piper Payne
Our body is a sacred temple A place to connect with people. As we aren't staying any younger We might as well keep it stronger.
~ Ana Claudia Antunes
We may not stay quick, If we are weak or sage, but a lot can squeak As we start to age.
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
~ Novalis
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
~ Aberjhani
When wounds are healed by love,The scars are beautiful.
~ David Bowles
there is some achingthat will only heal...in the mosque of sleep.
~ Sanober Khan
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
Anyone who is having troubles should pray. Anyone who is happy should sing praises. Anyone who is sick should call the church's elders. They should pray for and pour oil on the person in the name of the Lord. And the prayer that is said with faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will heal that person. And if the person has sinned, the sins will be forgiven. Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen. (James 5:13-16)
~ Anonymous
For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives.
~ W. Scott Lineberry
Whoever calls on the Savior, shall be saved.
If your faith is strong enough, she'll be healed.' If I've heard that once, I've heard it a thousand times. The problem is, when someone tells you that, they're not asking you to put faith in the power of God; they're asking you to put faith in the power of your own faith. And I can't even pretend that my mustard-seed faith measures up to the promises of God.
~ Christy Wilson Beam
Forgiveness is first act of faith.
I think of the New Testament story of the woman with an issue of blood--specifically of her hand reaching out into the clutter and chaos of a crowd, not sure that she would reach Christ, but nevertheless reaching for him in hope. Her story is sacred to me because she truly believed that by reaching outside of the bounds that her culture had set for her--perhaps even the bounds she had set for herself--she could be made whole.
~ Ashley Mae Hoiland
When you see yourself in a shattered mirror, don't think of it as the broken pieces of yourself. Think of it as all of the pieces that make up you.
~ Blaque Diamond
When we can step back even briefly from our hurt, sorrow, and anger, when we put our faith in the possibility of change, we create the possibility for non-judgmental inquiry that aims for healing rather than victory.
~ Sharon Salzberg
Father God, we thank you for your grace and your mercy, for allowing us to be together under your covenant and God we thank you for the revelations and for the breakthroughs; for your direction and for your healing. We thank you God for the opportunity to just be a vessel for your kingdom. God we trust you, we love you, we honor you, and all glory is yours. Amen
~ Germany Kent
I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy for the easing of her pain. I tell her, “Get a pen. Stop crying so you can write this down and start working on it tonight.” My remedy is long. But the last item on the list says: “When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go tonight). And where you need to go is any place where there are arms that can hold you, that will not let you go.
~ Bell Hooks
Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
~ David Richo
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience.
~ Molly Peacock
The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing.
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.
~ Allan Lokos
Don't make homes out of hollow hero's that don't know how to save themselves.
~ Nikki Rowe
A person may learn things all their life, but never gain knowledge of truth.
I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
~ William Paul Young
