4,066 Quotes About Healing

Pain and love cannot co-exist in the same space. You can never love anyone from a place of pain. You cannot truly love yourself when you are in pain. The more pain you carry in your heart, the harder it becomes to love anyone including yourself.

Some broken folk do whatever they can not to break other folk. If we're gone be broken, I wonder if we can be those kind of broken folk from now on. I think it's possible to be broken and ask for help without breaking other people.

Healing from pain is a choice. You have to consciously decide that you deserve to feel free, that you deserve to let go of the weight that has been holding you down for too long.

you lose everythingwhen you don’t love yourself- and gain everything when you do

there are whole blackoutsin some of the years i have livedmy therapist says our minds erase traumato help us move onbut every experience i’ve hadis memorized in my flesheven if my mind forgetsmy body remembersmy body is the map of my lifemy body wears what it’s been throughmy body signals the alarms whenit thinks danger is comingand suddenlythe hungry little demons from my pastcome raging out of my fleshscreamingdon’t you forget usdon’t you ever try toleave us behind again

how can i be socruel to myselfwhen i’m doing the best i can- be gentle

i am not a victim of my lifewhat i went throughpulled a warrior out of meand it is my greatest honor to be her

sometimesi love you meansi want to love yousometimesi love you meansi’ll stay a little while longersometimesi love you meansi’m not sure how to leavesometimesi love you meansi have nowhere else to go

i have difficulty separatingabusive relationshipsfrom healthy onesi can’t tell the differencebetween love and violence- it all looks the same