“Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. no matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.”— Sarah Dessen, amazon.com
“We can't undo a single thing we have ever done, but we can make decisions today that propel us to the life we want and towards the healing we need.”— Steve Maraboli, amazon.com
“One more stab to the heart, one more reason to hate. One less reason to live.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love…”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“People have scars in all sorts of unexpected places. Like secret road maps of their personal histories, diagrams of all of their old wounds. Most of our old wounds heal, leaving nothing behind but a scar. But some of them, don’t. Some wounds, we carry with us everywhere… and though the cut is long g…”— Debora Cahn, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Pain, you just have to ride it out, hope it goes away on its own, hope the wound that caused it heals. There are no solutions, no easy answers, you just breath deep and wait for it to subside. Most of the time pain can be managed but sometimes the pain gets you where you least expect it. Hits way be…”— Shonda Rhimes, Dr. Meredith Grey, Ellen Pompeo, imdb.com
“Gather the scattered fragments of your broken heart. Pick them up off the floor and weave them into the tapestry of your life so that when you find the light again-and you will- you'll remember that love can only be lost because it was once found. You are healing and you are growing and everything y…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“This same world that cries, rebuilds. This same world that is shattered, heals.”— Marisa Donnelly, thoughtcatalog.com
“While wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it’s often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.”— Demi Lovato, amazon.com
“Never underestimate the healing power of love. It is just as important for our survival as the food we eat, yet it’s free and available in unlimited supply. Love is the strongest medicine.”— Timber Hawkeye, amazon.com
“I thought if I could touch this place or feel it this brokenness inside me might start healing. Out here its like I'm someone else, I thought that maybe I could find myself if I could just come in I swear I'll leave. Won't take nothing but a memory from the house that built me.”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“Compassion heals and helps us understand. It cultivates patience and removes the ‘us vs. them’ mentality. It improves the mood and when you feel connections to people rather than differences, life becomes easier.”— Kristin Addis, brenontheroad.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 killing of a man was not so evil as the killing of a boat. For a boat does not have sons, and a boat cannot protect itself, and a wounded boat does not heal.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“I could be healed by the sheer courage of continuing to live. I could heal myself.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“Healing doesn’t mean that the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.”— mentalmentalhealth, tmblr.co
“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.”— Rachel Naomi Remen, amazon.com