323 Quotes About Healing-the-past

Healing isn’t about pointing fingers. Sorting through childhood family dynamics helps us find our self.

Once you learn to read minds you lose interest in reading books

It sucks when they move on before you do. And act as if they’re happy with someone else. Don’t fall for it. It’s all cap. Let them rush & fail. You take your time. You heal, grow, and keep winning. Don’t let loneliness force you into a relationship you have no business being in.

Embrace life with hopeful attitude.

That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.

You may think that hiding your pain from sight is somehow going to make it disappear. I can tell you from experience that it isn’t. It is just like the time as a kid when you really didn’t want to eat your greens. If you hid them underneath a piece of furniture, sooner or later your mum would discover them because all she had to do was follow the smell. Just like the broccoli, hidden issues begin to smell if they are not brought out into the open air. There is no escape.

Opportunity is another word for moving on. And it is a word choice, which is often the wiser. If the well gets poisoned, move to a meadow of merriment, where your hearts will echo the more.

I thought my troubles and pain were beyond my strength. Then, I looked at the trees going through their cycle of life. It reassured me that I’d be out of my winter season too one day, and I’d regain all that I’d lost.

Paulette had never been flush with self-confidence. People took that as humility, but humility isn’t painful and crippling. She hadn’t yet learned that humble and self-destructive aren’t the same thing at all. They’re not even on the same team. - From "The Gardens of Ailana" handbook for healers & mystics