Healing from trauma can be a really difficult process to put words to sometimes. Here are 35 sobering quotes about healing from trauma.
“Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. At first, perhaps, you can understand what He is doing. He is getting the drains right and stopping the leaks in the roof and so on; you knew that those jobs needed doing and so you are not surprised.
But presently He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make sense. What on earth is He up to? The explanation is that He is building quite a different house from the one you thought of – throwing out a new wing here, putting on an extra floor there, running up towers, making courtyards. You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.”
c.s. lewis
“At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid, and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”
john green
“Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.”
charles dickens
“Holding anger is a poison… it eats you from inside. We think that by hating someone we hurt them. But hatred is a curved blade… and the harm we do to others… we also do to ourselves.”
mitch albom
“To hurt is as human as to breathe.”
j.k. rowling
“Pain is a pesky part of being human. I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can’t be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing.”
c. Joybell c.
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
ted hughes
QUOTES ABOUT HEALING FROM TRAUMA
“I do not miss childhood, but I miss the way I took pleasure in small things, even as greater things crumbled. I could not control the world I was in, could not walk away from things or people or moments that hurt, but I took joy in the things that made me happy.”
neil gaiman
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.”
Mary manin morrissey
“If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.”
shannon l. alder
“Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others – it only changes yours.”
shannon l. alder
“Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”
roy t. bennett
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite.”
cassandra clare
QUOTES ABOUT HEALING FROM TRAUMA
“The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…”
nicholas sparks
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
leo tolstoy
“I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again. That at best, there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to. But I just had to lie in the mud with my arms around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
anne lamott
“As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation – either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
martin luther king jr.
“Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.”
rupi kaur
“Let us never forget to pray. God lives. He is near. He is real. He is not only aware of us but cares us. He is our Father. He is accessible to all who will seek Him.”
gordon b. hinckley
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to build,
QUOTES ABOUT HEALING FROM TRAUMA
“Don’t ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can be healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak.”
william p. young
“Some old wounds never truly heal, and bleed again at the slightest word.”
George r.r. martin
“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
rose fitzgeralD kennedy
“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
cormac mccarthy
“It’s not a crime to feel sad, down or depressed. Moving through difficult feelings is an essential part of living life authentically. Though society would have us believe that when we are sad, we need to smack a silly smile on our face and pretend everything is okay. Problems arise when we repress, deny or bury those feelings.”
jaeda dewalt
“When we pray for God to illuminate our path, we are saying, ‘Dear God, please show me the way. What thoughts do I need to think to be able to navigate at this point? What perceptions do I need; what insights will guide me? Who do I need to forgive? What parts of my personality do I need to look at; what changes do I need to make? Please come upon me and heal my life.'”
marianne williamson
“You can’t heal a heart that’s been fragmented. But my wounds were closing. Stitch by stitch, I was starting to feel again. I can’t undo the past and stop evertyhing that has happened. However, I can try to take a tiny step forward.”
calia read
QUOTES ABOUT HEALING FROM TRAUMA
“When we give in the world what we want the most, we heal the broken part inside each of us.”
eve ensler
“It’s not about blame or wallowing… you are all molded by so much more than a dysfunctional past, and you must ultimately take responsibility for creating the life you want.”
kimberlee roth
“Avoiding triggers is a symptom of PTSD, not a treatment for it.”
jonathan haidt
“Boundaries help us to distinguish our property so that we can take care of it. They help us to ‘guard our heart with all diligence.’ We need to keep things that will nurture us inside our fences and keep things that will harm us outside.”
henry cloud
“Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal.”
nikki rowe
“She understoof that grief is not neat and orderly; it does not follow any rules. Time does not heal it. Rather time insists on passing and as it does, grief changes but does not go away.”
ann hood
“Being broken isn’t the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don’t have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.”
anna white
QUOTES ABOUT HEALING FROM TRAUMA
“It’s a good thing to see that people can heal after they’ve been broken, that they can change and become something different from what they were before.”
wiley cash
