Quotes about healing

Your wound is not your fault but your healing is your responsibility.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience; patience is the key to joy.

Love gives naught but itself and takes naught but from itself. Love possesses not nor would it be possessed; For love is sufficient unto love.

Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

If you shed tears when you miss the sun, you also miss the stars.

That I exist is a perpetual surprise which is life.

Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain.

I must also have a dark side if I am to be whole.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.

An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Stars can't shine without darkness.

It's okay to rebuild slower than you broke down.

You are exactly where you need to be.

You can't pour from an empty cup. Take care of yourself first.

Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can.

Every flower must grow through dirt.

Healing is not linear.

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

"Hope" is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

You are your best thing, Sethe.

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare.

To be loving is to be open to grief, to be touched by sorrow, even sorrow that is unending.

Illness is the night side of life, a more onerous citizenship.