“You can say you have healed not when you have forgotten, but when you have forgiven.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“From time to time, trace the scars life has left you. It will remind you that at one point, you fought for something. You believed.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“Life has taught me that the people who often love the hardest are the ones who have been hurt the most.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“We dance in a circle and thank the universe for our feet. The heart opening postures make me feel dizzy. The instructor tells me it’s because I'm in the process of letting things go.”— Lindsey Wente, funnygirlsfinishlast.com
“The narratives we create in order to justify our actions and choices become in so many ways who we are. They are the things we say back to ourselves to explain our complicated lives.”— Cheryl Strayed, therumpus.net
“Survivor’s guilt goes down your throat with a burn like the Fireball Whiskey we were obsessed with at age sixteen. It also wakes you up. None of us is important enough to be a shitty friend.”— Ella Dawson, elladawson.com
“As for the girl who once rode these paths on her blue bicycle all those years back: She resides in me still, still guilty of the crime Jerry Salinger accused me of the last time I saw him—that I love the world and am hungry to know more of it.”— Joyce Maynard, vogue.com
“Healing is not fixing. It is just the process of remembering that everything was always okay.”— Brianna Wiest, shopcatalog.com
“I am no longer afraid of the mess this healing will create. I am here to unravel. I am here to unpack these bones.”— Bianca Sparacino, shopcatalog.com
“I have hearing loss from the radiation and my hair will never grow back. But these challenges are nothing compared to a life that might have been lost.”— Pearce Quesenberry, teenvogue.com
“this is where i come from. everyone i love still lives there.”— Brenna Twohy, brennatwohy.tumblr.com
“Francis: You're free to do as you please. Mary: I don't understand. What's changed? Francis: I cannot bear to see you in pain, and I will not be the cause of anymore suffering, even if your pain results from being kept from another man whom you desire. Mary: Francis... Francis: It's best that you do…”— P.K. Simonds, King Francis II, Toby Regbo, imdb.com
“Time alone with yourself is a space in your life for healing, learning, and empowerment.”— Iyanla Vanzant, twitter.com
“Your pain defines who you are but it no longer holds power on you.”— Jantje Friese, Ronny Schalk, Noah, Mark Waschke, imdb.com
“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”— Robert James Waller, amazon.com
“This is the numbness you feel right after a breakup. It’s the frozen terror you feel when you receive bad news. It’s the shock that hasn’t worn off a tragedy. The liminal space is the unprocessed aftermath of trauma. It is emotional limbo. It's the pause between pain and progress, between epiphany a…”— Shahida Arabi, thoughtcatalog.com