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I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure,That time is no healer: the patient is no longer...

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T. S. EliotThe Dry Salvages

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all t...

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More it hurt more better it is. Can't nothing heal without pain, you know.

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet an...

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In the latter months of his own long sickness the Master Herbal had taught him much of the healer's ...

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I shower in the dark, barely able to tell soap from conditioner, and tell myself that I will emerge ...

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'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but resto...

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I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard...

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Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...

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Wendell BerryThe Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay d...

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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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AberjhaniCollected Visions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

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AberjhaniJourney through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridicul...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.

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AberjhaniThe River of Winged Dreams

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.

Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.

Where humanitysowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguis...

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We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust,...

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I grant we should add a third category: that of the true healers. But it is a fact one doesn't come ...

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There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times w...

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Alexander McCall SmithThe Good Husband of Zebra Drive

We don't yet know, above all, what the world might be like if children were to grow up without being...

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You think you can avoid [pain,] but you actually can't. If you do, you just get sicker, or you feel ...

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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.

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Amy TanThe Valley of Amazement

And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real j...

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Anne LamottOperating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year

There were times when I would sob until I shook, until my eyelids were so swollen that it pained me ...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

it’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way tha...

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Growing up is, at heart, the process of learning to take responsibility for whatever happens in your...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

I mostly want to remind her of the recipes of healing, and give her my own made-on-the spot remedy f...

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Bell hooksSisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...

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In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal o...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnera...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing i...

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There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of...

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Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength ...

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What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all yo...

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Caroline MyssWhy People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be...

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Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a go...

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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 ...

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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you who...

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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget...

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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to ...

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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.and it is not because the mechanism is working...

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To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept p...

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Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

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One that society can't forgive, but I can.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brou...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is n...

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To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and t...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

If writers write not just with paper and ink or a word processor but with their own life's blood, th...

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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punish...

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Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt comp...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in thi...

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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the ...

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I have said so many times to many people on the spiritual path, 'You must be strong in yourself to h...

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Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my ...

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With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.

everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. The wind has its reasons. We just do...

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What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an...

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You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too l...

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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the aca...

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He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

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It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not eve...

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I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shield...

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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you...

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Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing wha...

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Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?