“In the long run, we heal the parts of us that feel inadequate by first becoming aware of them. Once aware, we listen to them and try to fully understand the story of how they came to believe they were not enough. Over time, by naming, validating and processing the associated emotions both from the p…”— Hilary Jacobs Hendel, hilaryjacobshendel.com
“People cannot relate to a perfectionist, there is beauty in brokenness. Your story will bring healing to others.”— Buky Ojelabi, bukyojelabi.com
“Don’t you know better? Hearts are breakable. And I think even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”— Cassandra Clare, amazon.com
“Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.”— Jennifer Brown, amazon.com
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”— John Burroughs, amazon.com
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls my life.”— Akshay Dubey, goodreads.com
“It’s all fine to say, ‘Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget’ - and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“I hope wherever she takes you that you will learn to call the place home. And that you will let the sky fill you with rain when you are emptied like a bucket overflowing, spilling off the edges, quenching the thirst of our broken earth Until you no longer ache for anything but your steady legs and t…”— Marisa Donnelly, tcat.tc
“Listen to me, your body is not a temple. Temples can be destroyed and desecrated. Your body is a forest — thick canopies of maple trees and sweet scented wildflowers sprouting in the underwood. You will grow back, over and over, no matter how badly you are devastated.”— Beau Taplin, beautaplin.com
“We cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever. We must stand up and move on to the next action.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pinprick, but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Becoming better doesn't happen overnight, it entails letting go of the toxicities that bring you down, be brave, you'll make it.”— Dr. Gia Sison, twitter.com
“Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them.”— Annette Messager, amazon.com