Quotes about Healing
Success will ameliorate all the years of your sadness.
- Jon Jones
Anything whole can be broken," Isabelle told her. "And anything broken can be put back together again. That is the meaning of Abracadabra. I create what I speak.
- Alice Hoffman
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.
- Alice Hoffman
But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.
- Alice Hoffman
Your grief won't go away; it's not a door you can close,or a book you can put back on the shelf,or a kiss you can give back once it's given. This is the way the world is now. Keep the worst things to yourself, like a bone in your throat.
- Alice Hoffman
What is broken can also be mended.
- Alice Hoffman
I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.
- Alice Hoffman
We can offer women what they want most of all, cures for the most common ailments of this world... When children are ailing or babies refuse to be born, when men are unfaithful, when the sky is empty of rain, when the amulets buried beneath holy wall upon instructions of the minim offer not solace and all entreaties to the priests for guidance fail, when the rituals they offer bring no comfort and no consolation, they come to us.
- Alice Hoffman
You once said that just as anything whole can be broken, anything broken can be put back together again.
- Alice Hoffman
A lot of people don't know what to do about grief. I don't blame you for a thing.
- Alice Hoffman
Let love be one, let it heal what had been broken, let it open the door to hope for the future.
- Alice Hoffman
what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start. Whether you are mortal or not, you go on, even if sorrow nags
- Alice Hoffman