#Healing

"You can run away from yourself so often, and so much, just because the broken pieces of you cut your feet too deeply if you stay around for too long. But then what if someone were to come along and pick up those pieces for you? Then you wouldn't have to run away from yourself anymore. You could stop running. If someone sees you as something worth staying with— maybe you'll stay with yourself, too."

"I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…"

"For many, the search for Jesus is initiated from experiencing an event in life so powerful, it awakens the dragons of faith; from pain so deep, it calls on the hidden fears of the soul in an effort to survive. For others it means a serious personal life survey that ultimately forces the confrontation with the futility, anesthetics, and despair in their lives."

"Is being burnt a requisite for the making of art? Personally, I don't think it is. But art is poultice for a burn. It is a privilege to have, somewhere within you, a capacity for making something speak from your own seared experience."

"Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing."

"I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening."

"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."

"I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal."

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

"Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy."

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

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

"If ever I was running, it was towards you."

"Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues"say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over."

"Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity."

"In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love."

"Take Care of Yourself First- It’s Easier to Serve Others That Way."

"I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault."

"I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me."

"I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I feel out casted from everyone else. It's a journal, when the only story I can tell is my own. It's a book, when I need to be somewhere else. It's control, when I feel so out of control. It's healing, when everything seems pretty messed up.And it's fun, when life is just flat-out boring."