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A ray of sunshine, I bring to the world my passion of guiding others to their point of power by first loving themselves from the inside out. I Am on a never ending journey of self discovery and that has earned me a PHd in life experience I share with you. If your ready to walk the path of happy, I am your partner and together we Can transform your world into something extraordinarily awesome.
— Lee Pryke
Don't forget to pause and nourish yourself a bit along the way. When you're born to help others sometimes you forget to help yourself.
— Paula Heller Garland
There is a thin line between self-love and self-hate. When you are at the self-hate side, make sure to cross the line and stay away from it forever.
— Merriam Rammila
You cannot ask someone to like you or love you more than you like or love yourself. YOU have to set the standard.
— Mandy Hale, The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass
Make life easier for those around you, not harder.Every person you know is fighting their own great battle. Few of us ever know what those battles entail, and so often we say and do things that push others deeper and harder into the front lines of those battles. I know such has been the relentless lifelong reality for me.Love a person for the person that they are.Or dislike them for the person that they are.But don’t love or dislike them for the sole reason that they see people differently than you do. Don’t love or dislike them because they experience the world differently than you do.And please don’t eternally and wholly define them with sexual labels just because they were among those who finally found the courage to acknowledge their truth.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
In our need to be somebody, we often forget that we are somebody.
— Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Self-love isn’t always so poetic
—  sometimes it’s a nice big triple back flip kick in the ass. You’ve got to call yourself on your own nonsense
If the painter has clumsy hands, he will be apt to introduce them into his works, and so of any other part of his person, which may not happen to be so beautiful as it ought to be. He must, therefore, guard particularly against that self-love, or too good opinion of his own person, and study by every means to acquire the knowledge of what is most beautiful, and of his own defects, that he may adopt the one and avoid the other.
— Leonardo da Vinci, A Treatise on Painting
Love, above all things, is a commitment to your choice.
— Rob Liano
For twenty-one years, I have been paralyzed by the fear of what this society will do with me if they ever were to know of the thoughts that I continually push away. For more than two decades, I have made a choice to be straight. After all, it’s as easy as making a choice, isn’t it? This culture has made sure that I know that. Anyone who is anything other than straight was just someone deceived by the devil. He is unnatural. He is confused. He is mistaken. He is weak. He can control it if he desires to control it. Such a compelling and ongoing argument has been made that I have always trusted it.I believed that if I hid it long enough, and ran from it long enough, and refused to acknowledge it for long enough, I could indeed succeed at living up to their decrees. I believed that I could force myself to never be anything else.
— Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing
We’re hungry for acceptance—from ourselves even more than from others—for love, for fulfillment, for peace. We’re hungry for a life we think we don’t deserve or can’t have, for the person we know we can be if only we’d give ourselves the chance.
— Mary DeTurris Poust, Cravings: A Catholic Wrestles with Food, Self-Image, and God
Complete - Yourself! Others may only enhance your completeness.
— Lashauna D. Hinton, Lyrically Lost in Love: An Original Collection of Poetry
Love cannot come from where love is not. We cannot express love from within us for another if there is no love for ourselves within us.
— O Shakoor
When you have developed a relationship with yourself, you can begin to take on the world.
— Gabriella Kortsch, Rewiring the Soul: Finding the Possible Self: How Your Connection to Yourself Can Make All the Difference
The Black Woman is amazingly strong, truly powerful, deeply visionary, has incredible worth and much love and goodness within that she is willing to share. She is to be honoured, yet must begin first to see and honour all of this (and much more) within and about herself. Let us see this more in who we truly are and live, when we do, we will attract more of the greatness that we absolutely deserve.
— Rebecca Gordon
Love is the only answer to every question. It is the only thing that will serve you in every situation. It is the route and the destination. It is medication, liberation and should be at the heart of and expression of your vocation.
— Rasheed Ogunlaru
Monsters were wild. Monsters were strong. Monsters were fierce and free.If I was monstrous...perhaps it wasn't such a bad thing.
— Sarah Diemer
Dagmar tried to stand, and Gwenvael caught her hand, pulling her back down. "You can't leave me. I'm tortured and brooding. You need to show me how much you adore me so I can learn to love myself again.""You've never stopped loving yourself.""Because I'm amazing.
— G.A. Aiken, What a Dragon Should Know
How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!
— Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover: A Romance
Don't rush into any kind of relationship. Work on yourself. Feel yourself, experience yourself and love yourself. Do this first and you will soon attract that special loving other.
— Russ von Hoelscher
To love one’s self, this is the greatest challenge we are all called to face.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Our Imperfections Are What Make Us Perfect.
— Lace Vintage
When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute student of human nature), what the secret of happiness was. Instead of giving me advice, he made a rather droll observation about what a lot of people who were happy with themselves seem to have done, namely:1. Take a careful inventory of their shortcomings and flaws2. Adopt a code of values that treats these things as virtues3. Admire themselves for living up to itBrutal people admire themselves for being manly; compulsive pedants admire themselves for their attention to detail; naturally selfish and mean people admire themselves for their dedication to helping the market reward talent and punish failure, and so on.
— John R. Perry, The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing
No body is worth more than your body
— Melody Carstairs
To hate the hate was just more hate; to reject the rejection was just more rejection; to judge the judging, just more judging.
— T. Scott McLeod, All That Is Unspoken
Whatever they say about it, but being altruistic is not so simple for everyone. Not to look and sound like despotism, altruism must be learnt, and it’s a long way, which in fact begins from our egoism, for really, a human can’t love others if he doesn’t love himself first.
— Lara Biyuts
Haven't we all, as time continues, found that we must be kind to ourselves and listen to our thoughts, because fewer and fewer of those remain who know what is most real to us?
— Lan Samantha Chang, Hunger
All my life, in nameless, indeterminate ways, I'd tried to complete my life with someone else--first my father, then Hugh, even Whit, and I didn't want that anymore. I wanted to belong to myself.
— Sue Monk Kidd
What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.
— Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.
— Chris Cleave, Little Bee
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
— Frida Kahlo
The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.
— Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County
We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.
— Bo Sánchez, You Have The Power to Create Love: Take Another Step on the Simple Path to Happiness
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.
— Linda Hogan
Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
— Robert Brault
To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.
— Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose
Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. 
— Rachel Naomi Remen
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
— Maya Angelou
It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering.
— Amy Greene, Bloodroot
Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.
— Emma Forrest, Your Voice in My Head
Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.
— Ann Brashares, The Last Summer
I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.
— Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.
— Karen Marie Moning, Iced
Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.
— Herbert M. Shelton
I will take away your means of escape.
— Natsuki Takaya
It's harder to heal than it is to kill.
— Tamora Pierce
you look at me and cryeverything hurtsi hold you and whisperbut everything can heal
— Rupi Kaur, Milk and Honey
And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall
— Jodi Picoult, Second Glance
Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.
— Laura Fitzgerald, Veil of Roses
Nightingale"Did I wound you, mutilate. Take away your voice. Did I cut something from you. Leave you locked in silence?This is what you do: you sing. Every part of you. Your locks of hair sing, your eyes, your hands, your smile. If I listen closely I can even hear your blood.Was I the one that took that away?Go down to the water where we used to swim. Stand under the sky at dawn when the sky is streaked with blood. Open your mouth and shout our secret to the waves. The ocean will be your voice. You won't have to carry anything alone. Little Sister, my Spring, April. Little nightingale. Sant at the edge of the water. Your voice will come back to you. Maybe. If I am silent.
— Francesca Lia Block, Wasteland
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John
— J.R. Ward, Lover Reborn
Maybe I should find another doctor
—  one who realizes the importance of scars.
Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. (in Bill Moyers' Healing and the Mind)
— Rachel Naomi Remen
Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.
— Peter A. Levine
Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.
— Alison Miller, Healing the Unimaginable: Treating Ritual Abuse and Mind Control
Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...
— Gabrielle Zevin
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal
— Gena Showalter, Lord of the Vampires
You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.
— Jodi Picoult, Sing You Home
Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.
— John H. Tobe
Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 "laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh." --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh. Great Spirit, allow me to laugh when times get tough.
— Larry P. Aitken, Two Cultures Meet: Pathways For American Indians To Medicine
Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over.And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.
— Nancy Werlin, Impossible
Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.
— Rachel Naomi Remen
It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj
— Masaru Emoto, The Healing Power of Water
You don't need treatment. The fever, inflammation, coughing, etc., constitute the healing process. Just get out of their way and permit them to complete their work. Don't try to 'aid' nature. She doesn't need your puny aid—she only asks that you cease interfering.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.
— Ellen Bass, Beginning to Heal
You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results. 
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
— John Christopher, The Sword of the Spirits
Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.
— Taylor Stevens, The Doll
Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting for Renewal of Life
Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche, Carefree Dignity: Discourses on Training in the Nature of Mind
Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt complex” because He accused them of being whited sepulchers—outside clean, inside full of dead men’s bones. Those who admit that they are guilty are like the public sinners and the publicans of whom Our Lord said, “Amen, I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the Kingdom of God before you” (Matt. 21:31). Those who think they are healthy but have a hidden moral cancer are incurable; the sick who want to be healed have a chance. All denial of guilt keeps people out of the area of love and, by inducing self-righteousness, prevents a cure. The two facts of healing in the physical order are these: A physician cannot heal us unless we put ourselves into his hands, and we will not put ourselves into his hands unless we know that we are sick. In like manner, a sinner’s awareness of sin is one requisite for his recovery; the other is his longing for God. When we long for God, we do so not as sinners, but as lovers.
— Fulton J. Sheen, Peace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop
No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars...
— Daniel Yanez
First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, the person is able to bear the feelings associated with traumatic memories. Third, the person has authority over her memories; she can elect both to remember the trauma and to put memory aside. Fourth, the memory of the traumatic event is a coherent narrative, linked with feeling. Fifth, the person's damaged self-esteem has been restored. Sixth, the person's important relationships have been reestablished. Seventh and finally, the person has reconstructed a coherent system of meaning and belief that encompasses the story of trauma.
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.
— Hazrat Inayat Khan
Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.
— Kathy Magliato, Healing Hearts: A Memoir of a Female Heart Surgeon
I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.
— Kerry Cohen, Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity
consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
— Amy Hempel
I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being
—  to have the courage to accept despair is to be.
In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come across many of them, and anyhow it must be a hard vocation. That's why I decided to take, in every predicament, the victim's side, so as to reduce the damage done. Among them I can at least try to discover how on attains to the third category; in other words, to peace.
— Albert Camus
She's terrified that all these sensations and images are coming out of her — but I think she's even more terrified to find out why." Carla's description was typical of survivors of chronic childhood abuse. Almost always, they deny or minimize the abusive memories. They have to: it's too painful to believe that their parents would do such a thing.
— David L. Calof
The doctor of the future will be oneself.
— Albert Schweitzer
If you don't take care of this the most magnificent machine that you will ever be given...where are you going to live?
— Karyn Calabrese
All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the world preferred to forget that men who knew how to heal also knew how to kill.
— George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you
— Heather Davis
What the sick need is teachers not treaters, health schools not hospitals, instruction not treatment, education in right living not training the sick habit. Both they and their advisors must get rid of the curing idea and the practices built up thereon.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
This was the plan: we would take a holy and sacred picture of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, to the very summit of the earth; once there, we would place it with sincere reverence amongst the chimerical shimmering palaces of ice and snow and then (accompanied by some weird Zen magic) we would light joss sticks, dance about making screechy kung-fu noises, get off our faces, and that would be it: Planet Earth saved. Simple.
— Mark Manning, Bad Wisdom
Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, Morgoth's Ring
None of us know how to fix ourselves, at least not entirely, not well enough.
— Catherine Lacey, Nobody Is Ever Missing
Even when something is not your fault, toxic blame has no place in your life. Focus on your own empowerment and healing.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Your body is an intelligent organism
—  it knows how to heal itself.
We choose our truths the way we choose our gods, single-sightedly, single-mindedly, no other way to feel or see or think. We lock ourselves into our ways, and click all the truths to one.We put our truths together in pieces, but you use nails and I use glue. You mend with staples. I mend with screws. You stitch what I would bandage.Your truth may not look like mine, but that is not what matters. What matters is this: You can look at a scar and see hurt, or you can look at a scar and see healing. Try to understand.
— Sheri Reynolds, A Gracious Plenty
This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine.
— Joan Halifax, The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom
Chiron reminds us that only through recognising and accepting our inner wounds can we find true healing.
— Lisa Tenzin-Dolma
a quick turn around a cornerand my planet becomes sandon the shore of a dying Universe
— S. Kelley Harrell, The Journey of Healing: Wisdom from Survivors of Sexual Abuse: A Literary Anthology
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.
— Caryll Houselander, Wood of the Cradle, Wood of the Cross
Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.
— Herbert M. Shelton
He's the thrilling, scary Boyfriend who's going to dare you to do things you'd never dreamed of, shower you with unreasonable presents, and show up uninvited at the most embarrassing times. Then he's going to stick with you, refusing to take the hint when you don't answer his calls.
— Sara  Miles
Healing is a biological process, not an art. It is as much a function of the living organism as respiration, digestion, circulation, excretion, cell proliferation, or nerve activity. It is a ceaseless process, as constant as the turning of the earth on its axis. Man can neither duplicate nor imitate nor provide a substitute for the process. All schools of healing are frauds.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Fasting for Renewal of Life
From deep within, our spirits are calling for a new and greater global wholeness, global healing, and global opportunity -- the voice is ours, the time is now, and the resources are what we have.
— Laura Teresa Marquez
Now, we shall be able to judge the extent of the spiritual undernourishment if we look at all these movements from another angle: not as errors but rather as attempts to find healing. I use this comparison: For a long time medical men combated fever as if it itself constituted the illness. Medicine today inclines rather to respect it, not only as a symptom of the disease but of the struggle of the organism against the disease. True, it is this struggle which makes it ill, and yet this very struggle is also the proof of its vitality and is the necessary way to healing.
— Paul Tournier, The Whole Person in a Broken World
Being healed means committing to use your resources and knowledge.
— S. Kelley Harrell
Christ is the eternal Son of God, and He is in His divine attributes the same yesterday and today and forever (Hebrews 13:8). If therefore He loved in the days of His flesh, He loves now; if He cared then, He cares now; if He healed then, He heals now. It does not necessarily follow that He will do now all that He did then, or that He will do what He does now in the same way as He did then, for His purposes in some things are different at present from what they were in the past. Nevertheless, Christ is changeless in character, and we may be sure that He is infinitely interested in us and concerned about us.
— William Henry Frost, Miraculous Healing: Why Does God Heal Some and Not Others?
A true healer is the one who heals himself first so others can benefit from his own healing.
— Hong Curley
Life should be built on the conservation of energy.
— Herbert M. Shelton
Cyril Connolly, twentieth-century writer and critic, wrote that ‘words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.’ That was how I wanted to use books: as an escape back to life. I wanted to engulf myself in books and come up whole again.p.20
— Nina Sankovitch, Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.
— Herbert M. Shelton, Getting Well
There comes a time for healingno matter how broken you are right now;no matter how heavy your heart is right now.There comes a time when you will go outsideand let the sun shine on your faceand let the wind touch your hairand you will not be tired by just simply being awake.There comes a time when you will be happy to be alive againand that day you will appreciate your own beingbecause now you know the other side.Now you know the opposite.Now you know what it’s like to not be sure if you really are; whoyou really are;if you simply are, anymore.And that daywill be the beginning of everything.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you are stronger, you can begin to think again. But now is the time to feel.
— Patricia A. McKillip, The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Let go of what you can no longer keep. Protect what's still worth keeping. Believe in love most of all.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
There will always be a pain in 'goodbyes'. No matter how much we seem to understand everything, it breaks our hearts to ever see anything beautiful die.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
It is when, your soul and body is brought under the subjection of the spirit that is placed inside of you, it is at that time, your spirit communes with the Lord’s Spirit , His Holy Spirit and then when you call on His Name , there is Power, there is victory
— Henrietta Newton Martin-Sr Legal Cons. & Author ( Greatest of All Romances-Your Potter's Call)
Saying goodbye doesn't meanYou don't love him anymore,Nor that you no longer will.It doesn't mean that you failed.It doesn't mean you're unlovable.It doesn't mean somebody's better,And that someone else can take your place.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Wasted laughter. Wasted tears. Wasted love. That's how badly you felt. And yet, is love ever truly wasted?
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Saying goodbye doesn't mean you need to forget,It doesn't mean you were never loved.It doesn't mean you're weak,It doesn't mean you didn't try hard enough.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Restoration comes from the Redeemer.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
You have come from the shadow of the heroin and the shadow of your brother, my friend. Come from the shadow of yourself, if you dare.
— Stephen King, The Waste Lands
Rochelle Watts is a counsellor in Australia, Thailand, Spain and the UK. She offering Psychotherapy, Cognitive behaviour therapy, Couple Counselling, Drug & Alcohol and Trauma Counselling. I have specialised training in Supervision, Acceptance & Commitment Therapy, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy.
— fremantlecounsellor.com
The road to recovery may be tough, but I've closed all the doorsthat lead to giving upWith only one choice in hand, I am focused on healing
— Vijaya Gowrisankar
This book is written for our animals, who trust us with their safekeeping. To keep them healthy, we turn to modern medicine, but it is ill-equipped to address chronic disease in our animals and ourselves. We have become dependent on pharmaceuticals to address every ailment, one at a time. There is a different way. What if we as animal lovers could change our focus from individual symptoms to an awareness of the whole animal and their innate ability to heal? Then we would be well on our way to making our beloved companions' lives a lot better.
— Wendy Thacher Jensen, Practical Handbook of Veterinary Homeopathy: Healing Our Companion Animals from
I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.
— Naomi Hirahara, 1001 Cranes
As adults, HSPs tend to have just the right personalities for inner work and healing. Generally speaking, your keen intuition helps you uncover the most important hidden factors. You have greater access to your own unconscious and so a greater sense of others' and how you were affected. You can develop a good sense of the process itself - when to push, when to back off. You have curiosity about inner life. Above all, you have integrity. You remain committed to the process of individuation no matter how difficult it is to face certain moments, certain wounds, certain facts.
— Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
Help me O God! The pain of separation seems more painful to me than death itself. I don't know how much longer I can carry on. Help me carry on this day Lord. Help me to let go, I pray. Though I may not forget, help me to remember how you have always carried me through. Though the pain may not yet go away, assist me in carrying this cross with hope in my heart.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
Love doesn't just go away without a sign or a reason. Things have happened along the way that caused it to grieve and to depart. Like all gifts, love has to be taken care of. It has to cherished and protected by those to whom it is given, and not just by one partner but by both.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
When we lose a loved one, whether by a broken relationship or by unexpected death, the most difficult part we experience is the vacuum of loss we feel in our hearts.All of a sudden, a very significant part of our life, maybe the biggest or most important part is taken away. There is no immediate replacement. What we have left is just a BIG VOID, an empty space, a black hole we cannot understand. We feel hollow, like our hearts have suddenly been taken away.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
We are fragile beings,yet we often act as though we couldn't be hurt,and as though we couldn't hurt other people.
— Jocelyn Soriano, Mend My Broken Heart
When you notice someone does something toxic the first time, don't wait for the second time before you address it or cut them off. Many survivors are used to the "wait and see" tactic which only leaves them vulnerable to a second attack. As your boundaries get stronger, the wait time gets shorter. You never have justify your intuition.
— Shahida Arabi
Commit to the healing path and trust the process.
— Rosenna Bakari
You know you're having a bad week when you call 911, the paramedics come to your house, and one of them notices you've rearranged your furniture.
— Cherie Kephart, A Few Minor Adjustments: A Memoir of Healing
Healing was a terrifying and painful experience and my life was as full of struggle and heartache as it had always been. Several years after I started therapy, I began to feel happy. I was stunned. I hadn't realized that the point of all this work on myself was to feel good. I thought it was just one more struggle in a long line of struggles. It took a while before I got used to the idea that my life had changed, that I felt happy, that I was actually content. Learning to tolerate feeling good is one of the nicest parts of healing.
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
These remedies that I provide in this book do not come any better than this. If they were any better, I would marry them!
— Matthew J. Murphy, REMEDY: HOW I CURED THE INCURABLE
As you recover, you will feel more conscious of your surroundings. Freed from the ‘fog’ of your pain, fear, and confusion, you will awaken and see the world revealed as never before. You will begin to observe things, especially yourself. You will be aware of what you do and why you do it. You will begin to observe your own behavior and attitudes.
— Beverly Engel, The Right to Innocence
And as she fell apart, her shattered pieces began to bloom — blossoming until she became herself exactly as she was meant to be...
— Becca Lee
Only Christ Jesus can heal the brokenness of the heart.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
However, we have to acknowledge that living with DID presents huge challenges; it is complex and complicated. But our diagnosis was the key to us accessing services and funding, which has enabled us to return to life within the community and to have a positive future. We can see constructive, productive elements in our life, and our faith plays a strong part in this.
— Carol Broad, Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
Our future can be brighter. We know that with the right help, continued treatment, and support we can potentially aim for partial or full integration. Yet even if this is not possible, whatever happens we can move forwards. We can live with the multiplicity of being an us and not a me, a we and not an I. We know that, as we are already living that life.
— Carol Broad, Living with the Reality of Dissociative Identity Disorder: Campaigning Voices
healingbeginsthe momentyouwant it to
— Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
The more power they have over your emotions, the less likely you’ll trust your own reality and the truth about the abuse you’re enduring. Knowing the manipulative tactics and how they work to erode your sense of self can arm you with the knowledge of what you’re facing and at the very least, develop a plan to retain control over your own life and away from toxic people. . . . Taking back our control and power . . . means seeking validating professional help for the abuse we’ve suffered, detaching from these people in our lives, learning more about the techniques of abusers, finding support networks, sharing our story to raise awareness, and finding appropriate healing modalities that can enable us to transcend and thrive after their abuse.
— Shahida Arabi
Deciding to actively heal is terrifying because it means opening up to hope. For many survivors, hope has brought only disappointment.Although it is terrifying to say yes to yourself, it is also a tremendous relief when you finally stop and face your own demons. There is something about looking terror in the face, and seeing your own reflection, that is strangely relieving. There is comfort in knowing that you don't have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal. As one survivor put it, "I know now that every time I acceptmy past and respect where I am in the present, I am giving myself a future."- The Courage to Heal
— Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Away I turned, from the ghosts that brought me to this place. From an insatiable desperation to be wanted and my urge to fill the emptiness inside.
— Jennifer Irwin
Are you prepared to follow the Lamb whithersoever? The Lord does as He chooses. He dispenses miracles as He chooses for His own glorious purposes. He doesn't always give us what we asked for. He doesn't always give that healing and even when He does we still become sick and die eventually. Do we trust in His sovereign choices or trust only in getting what we want? Will we fix our eyes on the storm in this fading world or on the Christ of heaven?
— David  Holdsworth
The consciousness of the body is more powerful than the consciousness of the mind.
— Joey Lawsin, Originemology
...when I decided to be fully honest about whatever my heart undergoes, I found immense peace among the chaos of uncertainties. In my honesty and by acknowledging our big, big God, I found peace.
— Natalie Brenner, This Undeserved Life: Uncovering The Gifts of Grief and The Fullness of Life
Don't fill your breath with bitterness.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Gerbert, by the window, shuddered; his mouth contorted. The witch began to twist faster and faster while her twin was talking to Gisela, mumbling to her, marching old holy words straight through the child’s ear into her skull, where they entered the bloodstream and looked for the enemy. The monk’s fingers twitched in the same rhythm and he found himself falling into a trance. He knew it would be dangerous to witness the witches brewing and dancing but there was an energy in it that he’d missed badly since he’d been asked to educate the young princess. Gerbert didn’t even notice when the hags stopped, tucked the girl in, rubbed the concoction on her lips and left for the unseen place from which they had come. Gisela healed quickly thereafter: The fever fell that same night and she asked for solid food the next morning. She had no memory of what had happened, but when she bounced on one leg across the meadow in the castle yard, she chanted a little melody that had not been heard in church, an odd melody that made Gerbert’s ears prick up because he sensed the uncanny in it.
— Marcus Speh, GISELA
Often feelings of shame, powerlessness, and self-hate are bottled up with the memories, and as the memories come through, these feelings do, too.Yet healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself.
— Laura  Davis, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
Someday those bruises inside you will heal. You can't know when someday will come, or what life will look like when it finally does. ... But in a way it doesn't even matter because someday isn't what we have. What we have is right now, this moment, when things aren't okay yet, but in a way they are already, because in the end they will be, and as long as that's true, it's enough.
— Lauren   Miller, All Things New
Bitterness leads to brokenness in spirit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
They call it kintsugi. The pot is shattered, then carefully reassembled with a resin mixed with gold. It symbolizes how we must incorporate our wounds into who we are, rather than try to merely repair and forget them.
— David Wong, Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits
When pursued it becomes clear that this separation between one's self and the Church usually stems from deep unresolved pain or dissatisfaction rooted in early religious upbringing. Sometimes it arises from a contemporary image of the Church as authoritarian, chauvinistic, hypocritical, or unforgiving in nature. Though thirsting spiritually for a relationship, some find it too threatening or the prospects too unsatisfying to have to return to a painful image or experience associated with God and the religious realm. This group ay actually scorn the Church because it is not intellectually acceptable to live with a reality that can only be accepted on faith. "To believe in something non-verifiable,' they say, 'is to be weak in one's thin
— Janet O. Hagberg, The Critical Journey: Stages in the Life of Faith
A crisis can knock us off balance, making us afraid, vulnerable, and ripe for change. This also happens in our spiritual journey. We have a crisis in our faith that causes us to reconsider. It might frighten us, at least make us vulnerable. If we become bitter or too resistant, we can get very stuck. But if we let the change or crisis touch us, if we live with it and embrace it as difficult as that is, we are more likely to grow and to move eventually to another stage or spiral in our journey [of faith]. When we are most vulnerable, we have the best chance to learn and move along the way. In the midst of pain there is promise.
— Janet O. Hagberg
In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's lore, and the first lesson and the last of all that lore was this: Heal the wound and cure the illness, but let the dying spirit go.
— Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea
Many will notice the change in your attitude, and make judgements, call you names – arrogant, Ill tempered. But only a select few will see beyond and notice the hurt, pain, rejection that triggered  the anger, and activated your defence  in the form of changed attitude. And of these few who notice, barely exceptional ones, will care enough to act and see their contribution to your pain – apologise or take corrective actions, to help your heart heal.To find someone who understands your emotions so well and does not define you by your outbursts or your temper, but instead sees the factors that trigger those reactions in you, even when they are at the receiving end, is nothing less than a miracle.
— Drishti Bablani, Wordions
But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.
— R. Y.S. Perez, I Hope You Fall in Love: Poetry Collection
WHE YOU FOCUS ON HEALING AND OVERCOME A TRAGEDY OR CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU BECOME A SURVIVOR, NOT A VICTIM ANYMORE.
— Linda Alfiori
You tend to write because your heart holds million unspoken words, writing is your only way to heal your own soul!
— Raouf Ayoub
Everyone heals in their own time and in their own way. The path isn't always a straight line, and you don't need to go it alone.
— Zeke Thomas
By acknowledging my impermanence, I can consider if there is anything I can do now to help my loved ones who will be left behind cope with losing me and to facilitate healing.
— Lisa J. Shultz, A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
Healing is a revolutionary act and we are here to awaken to the true nature of our own souls and the gifts we have to give to the world.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.
— Hippocrates, Aphorisms
You can tuck your head under your wing for a while...and wait out this storm. But you will fly again.
— Connilyn Cossette, Shadow of the Storm
Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of our deepest troubles is also the water of our own solution. In surrender, we descend down to the bottom of it and back to the beginning of it; down into what is divided in order to get back to the wholeness before the split. Healing, health, wealth, wholeness: all hail from the same roots. To heal is to make whole again; wholeness is what all healing seeks and what alone can truly unify our spirit.
— Michael Meade, The Genius Myth
God illuminated something powerful in that moment. One e-mail represented my family of origin - a family bent toward hiding. And my new family, the one I'd forged from the ashes of my past, desperate for Jesus to help me, represents who I am today. I am loved. I am surrounded by children and a husband who cheer for me.
— Mary DeMuth
The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs and behaviors. as people, we do not easily forget. However, as we heal, grieve, and let go, we become clear-minded and focused to live restore and emotionally healthy.
— Dee  Brown, Breaking Passive-Aggressive Cycles
Only absolute simplicity can resolve a horrible complication; only a state free from psychology can heal psychological connections, and only a lucid brain can let go of a compulsive thought.
— Shai Tubali
You don't ever heal your heart, you learn that your heart is the one that heals you, once you know to let it.
— Christian Donald Joseph Poulin
When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.
— Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
As long as you keep secrets and suppress information, you are fundamentally at war with yourself.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
While trauma keeps us dumbfounded, the path out of it is paved with words, carefully assembled, piece by piece, until the whole story can be revealed.
— Bessel A. van der Kolk, The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
There is dignity after the storm.
— Catherine Jane Fisher, I am Catherine Jane: The True Story of One Woman's Quest for Justice
The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.
— Clementine von Radics, Mouthful of Forevers
Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.
— Andrew Peterson, The Monster in the Hollows
We all have scars, my beautiful one. They make us who we are, and if we let them, they bring us together.
— Jocelyn Green, The Mark of the King
I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me—walk in my woods, bathe in my rivers, eat of my harvest—they will find healing to their souls. But stray from me and return to the supposed wisdom of men, and they will find themselves in chains once more.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
As you heal, you see yourself more realistically. You accept that you are a person with strengths and weaknesses. You make the changes you can in your life and let go of the things that aren’t in your power to change. You learn that every part of you is valuable. And you realize that all of your thoughts and feelings are important, even when they’re painful or difficult.
— Ellen Bass, Beginning to Heal