“Don’t try to be cured; you will heal as much as you need to by yourself.”— Simone de Beauvoir, amazon.com
“We choose to heal and we choose to move forward by being brave and vulnerable enough to heal.”— Desmond Tutu, vividlife.me
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”— Rose Kennedy, imdb.com
“Not everyone is okay with living like an open wound. But the thing about open wounds is that, well, you aren’t ignoring it, you’re healing. The fresh air can get to it. It’s honest. You aren’t hiding who you are. You aren’t rotting. People can give you advice on how to heal without scarring badly.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“You’ll ache. And you’re going to love it. It will crush you. And you’re still going to love all of it. Doesn’t it sound lovely beyond belief?”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“No one is allowed to judge the way you choose to let go of your pain and your heartache.”— Nikita Gill, thoughtcatalog.com
“I understood myself only after I destroyed myself, and only in the process of fixing myself did I know who I really am.”— Sade Andria Zabala, thoughtcatalog.com
“No truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You think that time heals and walls hide things, but it isn’t true. When things get that deep inside you, there isn’t anybody can change them.”— Federico García Lorca, amazon.com
“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind in my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”— Mike McHargue, twitter.com
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls my life.”— Akshay Dubey, goodreads.com
“That’s the thing about ‘what ifs’; they don’t matter. They don’t change anything. All they do is make it unable for you to heal.”— Lindy Zart, amazon.com
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”— John Burroughs, uknow.uky.edu
“Maybe time didn’t heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”— Kristin Hannah, amazon.com
“People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.”— Mike McHargue, twitter.com