Quotes about Healing
For any victim, particularly us Americans, it is difficult to see ourselves through the eyes of our offender. But for any victim it is the most salutary thing to do.
- Miroslav Volf
A bad past is like gristle. You can chew on it forever and starve yourself to death, or you can spit it out and see what else is on the table.
- Lisa Wingate
I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
- Lisa Wingate
The most important thing, I think. You can't run from your past. You have to take it for what it is and realize that it's part of you.
- Lisa Wingate
I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it.
- Lisa Wingate
Secrets ain't a healthy thang, no matter how old they is. Sometimes the oldest secrets is the worst of all.
- Lisa Wingate
It's those little nicks and dents and imperfections of spirit that allow us to flow out into a thirsty world. It's our scars that allow us to relate to the scars of others, our suffering that connects us to others who suffer.
- Lisa Wingate
My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.
- Lisa Wingate
Forgiveness given is forgiveness gained.
- Lisa Wingate
One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.
- Lisa Wingate
I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.
- Lisa Wingate
There are no bad men. Just the lost looking to be found, sister.
- Lisa Wingate