"The true survivor is one who has finally learned that survival itself is beside the point."
~Hannah Nyala, Author
"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
~Helen Keller
"Survival, I know, is to begin again."
~Judy Collins
"There is no such thing as justice -- in or out of court."
~Clarence Darrow
"Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings."
~Elie Wiesel
"Take a day to heal from the lies you've told yourself and the ones that have been told to you."
~Maya Angelou
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else -- You are the one who gets
burned."
~Buddha
"There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest."
~Elie Wiesel
"One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine
when the cure will be effected."
~Paramahansa Yogananda
"By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no
longer an option but a necessity for healing."
~Caroline Myss
"Justice does not come from the outside. It comes from inner peace."
~Barbara Hall
"We must embrace pain and but it as fuel for our journey."
~Kenji Miyazawa
"Survival is a form of resistance."
~Mendel Le Sueur
"Holding on to anger, resentment, and hurt only gives you tense muscles, a headache, and a sore jaw from clenching your teeth.
Forgiveness
gives you back the laughter and the lightness in your life."
~Joan Lunden
"The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
~Mahatma Gandhi
"As in the physical world, so in the spiritual world, pain does not last forever."
~Katherine Mansfield
"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget
creates a new way to remember.
We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."
~Lewis B. Smedes
"Forgiveness is the healing of wounds caused by another. You choose to let go of a past wrong and no longer be hurt by it.
Forgiveness is a strong move to make, like turning your shoulders sideways to walk quickly on a crowded sidewalk. It's your
move."
~Real Live Preacher.com
"Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities
and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into
a reality."
~Sara Paddison
We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.
~Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt
"Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark."
~George Iles
"Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations,
all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are."
~Rachel Naomi Remen
"When we forgive, we set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner we set free is us."
~Lewis B. Smedes
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
~Ghandi
"Joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair."
~Anne Morrow Lindbergh
"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
~Oprah Winfrey
"Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."
~Ralph Blum
"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."
~Booker T. Washington
"Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines."
~Robert Schuller
"Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it."
~Tori Amos
"With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing."
~Catherine de Hueck
"To the soul, there is hardly anything more healing then friendship."
~Thomas Moore, Irish Poet
"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
~Hippocrates
"Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him."
~Psalms 62:5
He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds."
~Psalms 147:3
"Healing yourself is connected with healing others."
~Yoko Ono
"I had NO IDEA that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood."
~Susie Bright
"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter
what culture we're from, everyone loves music."
~Billy Joel
"Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion."
~Buddha
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed,
done with."
~Harry Crews
"To heal from the inside out is the key."
~Wynonna Judd
"The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love."
~Hubert H. Humphrey