“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering grieving, to realize she slept a good night's sleep, and will be able to eat breakfast, and doesn't hear her husband's ghost all the time, but only some of the time. Her grief is replaced with a useful sadness. Every parent wh…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“We are all trying to heal through relationship. Each dance is a mini relationship, and as such, it makes us tap into the memories and inner voices of past hurts, experiences of failure, fears, doubts, and judgments. And as in a relationship, moving with another body confronts us with the challenge o…”— Yelizaveta Nersesova, thechangeblog.com
“We’ve all done the worst kind of things just to stay alive. But we can still come back. We’re not too far gone.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“Replace fear-based thinking with love-based thinking. Every time you're making a choice, ask yourself if it's going to cultivate the experience of unity and love or the experience of separation and stress.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Hugs should be available at the medical stores 24/7. Sometimes, they are the best healers for almost everything.”— Minhal Mehdi, goodreads.com
“Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.”— Nora Roberts, amazon.com
“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Since I was young, I have always known this: Life damages us, every one. We can’t escape that damage. But now, I am also learning this: We can be mended. We mend each other.”— Veronica Roth, amazon.com
“In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this. I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away. I can't say goodbye.”— China Miéville, amazon.com
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having…”— Anne Lamott, books.google.com
“All I wanted was to crush him with my words. As if my words had the power to remove my pain and make us even. I was wrong. My words bounced back and cut my wound deeper. Pain is not healed with anger. The wound only closes when forgiveness shows its face.”— Mirtha Michelle Castro, amazon.com
“While I can be logical about this, logic has never once mended a broken heart or fixed a sundered soul.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“Yes, it is wildly painful when our illusions burst, as when a loved one dies or simply leaves us, but like a crushed flower emanating sweet fragrance under heel, the difficult loss can yield new appreciation for how little time we have to live the dream dancing in the heart of our authentic truth.”— Bryan Reeves, amazon.com
“The courage it takes to confront our own wounds is something the modern world doesn’t prepare us with.”— Bryan Reeves, amazon.com
“Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it a…”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com