Quotes about Healing
Once I gave up the hunt for villains, I had little recourse but to take responsibility for my choices ...Needless to say, this is far less satisfying that nailing villains. It also turned out to be more healing in the end.
- Barbara Brown Taylor
I lost a child, she said, meeting Lusa's eyes directly. I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Mother, you can still hold hold on but forgive, forgive and give for long as long as we both shall live, I forgive you, Mother.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Time cures you first, and then it kills you.
- Barbara Kingsolver
You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always a chance you'll want to use it later.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Maybe it's true what they say, that as long as you're nursing your own pain, whatever it is, you'll turn your back on others in the same boat. You'll want to believe the fix they're in is their own damn fault.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, i have taught myself joy, over and over again.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Why do you suppose the poets talk about hearts?' he asked me suddenly. 'When they discuss emotional damage? The tissue of hearts is tough as a shoe. Did you ever sew up a heart?
- Barbara Kingsolver
You can't let your heart go bad like that, like sour milk. There's always the chance you'll want to use it later.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Shame is removed through love.
- Danny Silk
Withholding love is a form of self-sabotage, as what we withhold from others we are withholding from ourselves.
- Marianne Williamson