Quotes Tagged "healing-the-past"

Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.

Thank you Heavenly Father. You heard my petition. You have answered my plea. May your name be glorified and be praised.

Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide.

It's a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.

Every broken heart has screamed at one time or another: Why can't you see who I truly am?

Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal. From an Irish headstone

Psychoanalysis is often about turning our ghosts into ancestors, even for patients who have not lost loved ones to death. We are often haunted by important relationships from the past that influence us unconsciously in the present. As we work them through, they go from haunting us to becoming simply part of our history.

Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

You didn’t just automatically become a Christian, did you? You weren’t made a Christian by just going to church. Just like you are not made a car by sitting in a garage all day! You have to make a decision.

Heal a broken heart to the core By openning it up so even more.

My dear sister, you can’t escape God, and you can’t escape your skeletons in the closet. They will always be there until you take them out from behind those dusty old moth-eaten coats. Your exterior facade of ‘everything is alright’ only works for a little while, and then the cracks begin to show. You can only hide behind yourself for so long. You can’t keep running!

Healing is painful. It means disinfecting deep wounds. It means experiencing the pain for a season in order to put in the past for a lifetime.

Writing poems is the best revenge.

It just takes time. I have to ride the roller coaster to the end.

Time is not necessary for healing but it is generally inevitable.

Time is a strange and powerful beast. It has a habit of making the impossible possible.

Love will heal the world.

Self-pity is spiritual suicide. It is an indefensible self-mutilation of the soul.