Top 100 Quotes About Healing The Past
#1. Justice isn't about fixing the past; it's about healing the past's future.
Jackson Burnett
#2. I could never do a job that entailed complicating people's lives
Frank Healy
#3. The minute we put aside our self-righteousness and move away from being the aggrieved, then we are on a healing process.
Stephen Richards
#4. It's easier to construct a more palatable life story-where I can draw straight lines from each hurt of the past to the healing I later experienced-than to face the raw truth.
Lysa TerKeurst
#5. Even if you're just shouting into a void, self-expression is a healing thing.
Marty Rubin
#6. I spent many years trying to make up reasons about why I had the flashbacks, memories, continuous nightmares. When I finally decided to quit trying to hide from truth, I began to heal.
Karen Marshall
#7. Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love
William Keepin
#8. Each time you allow the past to hold your future, [he] steals more and more from you.
Pepper D. Basham
#9. i would like to look
into a mirror
without inmediately
looking away.
- healing is ongoing II
Amanda Lovelace
#10. All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self.
-Ram Dass
Ram Dass
#11. If we studied the issue of forgiveness with a wider perspective, we are bound to opt for it after all.
Stephen Richards
#12. [M]y only route was trust: trust in a *deeper* wisdom, the wisdom responsible for making my heart beat, my eyes shine, my hair grow; trust in the infinite intelligence responsible for making my cells replicate; trust in the part of me that is awake when I'm asleep at night.
Brandon Bays
#13. Dare to be vulnerable, walk outside without your armor on and say YES to your heart.
Alaric Hutchinson
#14. The moment we see beyond our personal desires to be felt sympathy for, that is the time we can actually start the journey to that final destination of true forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#15. There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
Susan Vreeland
#16. They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.
Josephus
#17. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#18. A bird cannot fly with broken wings. Your heart cannot love without learning to heal.
Kemi Sogunle
#21. The purpose of forgiveness is not to make sure that someone ends up changing into what you expect them to be, as this is dominance. The purpose is actually to make your own life better, more worthy and less stressful. Forgiveness reduces the hold that the wrongdoer has over you and empowers you.
Stephen Richards
#22. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#24. Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop - to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.
Nhat Hanh
#25. All things pass ... Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.
Mizuki Nomura
#27. Whenever a soul is brutalized, cleansing and healing must happen. But
you are strong, Quinn. You learn from the past and the present, but you do not
let it dictate your future. You let it guide you, inspire you and instruct you
only.
Joey W. Hill
#28. I am filled with truth at my center where I once held shame.
Maureen Brady
#29. Healing comes in many ways, and no one formula fits all.
Sharon Salzberg
#30. Letting go of the past, is like opening the flood gates of healing to be set free.
Asa Don Brown
#32. Perhaps you need to look back before you can move ahead.
Alan Brennert
#33. The past might hurt but don't run from it, repeat it, or punish others for it. Learn from it and be glad that you survived it.
Rob Liano
#36. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
Stephen Richards
#37. Healing doesn't just take a little time, it also takes commitment to get started and to complete the process.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#38. Do not allow yourself to be pulled into the role of embracing victimship as some sort of badge of honor to wear or flash around at any opportunity.
Stephen Richards
#39. I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.
Brene Brown
#40. Tapping into our inherent sexuality can offer a gateway to deep healing of past hurts and wounds, which are carried in the body and can hinder one's potentials for leading the happy, sexually fulfilled life we all deserve.
Antonia Hall
#41. I cannot stand the words Get over it. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don't allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime - and that's OK.
Beau Taplin
#43. In the process of forgiveness, you can only control your own actions and decisions.
Stephen Richards
#44. Assuming you are still lost in thought about when exactly you should forgive someone, well the time is NOW.
Stephen Richards
#45. If your doctor has warned you to avoid excitement, do not turn to exploring your past lives as a soothing and sedentary occupation ...
Herbie Brennan
#46. When you forgive, you are freed from some of the feelings of disapproval and it can contribute to lessening your negative thoughts.
Stephen Richards
#47. You read so much about the healing power of memoir, but you don't read about the wounding power it has first. The recollection of past events is not, in and of itself, therapeutic.
Janice Erlbaum
#48. Distancing yourself from some painful event is probably the ignition for the process of forgiveness.
Stephen Richards
#49. The child gives, because the body can, and the mind of the violator cannot.
Maya Angelou
#50. Work hard. Suit yourself, then you'll know at least one person is pleased.
Carole Estrup
#51. The idea of always wanting to be the victim in circumstances where you have been offended is a common human trait. Each person wants to be viewed as the aggrieved party.
Stephen Richards
#52. People stagger, but they pick up a tattered thread and wind it back onto a spool.
Donia Bijan
#53. The more we focus on who we are in Christ, the less it matters who we were in the past, or even what happened to us.
Joyce Meyer
#54. Behind every dancer there's someone that broke her, a song that moved her, a moment that inspired her and a dance floor that healed her.
Hope Alcocer
#55. Forgiveness does carry with it numerous obstacles and one may well be surprised why many people find it a very difficult hurdle to jump over.
Stephen Richards
#56. On some level, with its carrousels and castle and cowboys, its mysterious jungle and its animated characters, Disneyland is a highly idealized elaboration of our childhoods. It can be seen as a portal through which we revisit (maybe even heal) our youth.
Leslie Le Mon
#57. Take one day at a time, nurture each day, and the hurt will be yesterdays past.
J. Hale Turner
#59. The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.
Stephen Richards
#60. To promote the healing response, you must get past all the grosser levels of the body - cells, tissues, organs and systems
and arrive at a junction point between mind and matter, the point where consciousness actually starts to have an effect.
Deepak Chopra
#61. The world is full of victims; don't add to the growing culture of "I've a story to tell", well not unless it's a story to help others overcome situations or as a warning.
Stephen Richards
#62. But pain's like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There's no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.
Katie Kacvinsky
#63. Through depression and many other dark low emotions, our Light dims and our immune system declines along with it. White blood cells are the physical Light of our body.
Colors can be used to heal, restore and to uplift us.
Jacqueline Ripstein
#64. 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.
Amy Tan
#65. Simply touching a difficult memory with some slight willingness to heal begins to soften the holding and tension around it. (74)
Stephen Levine
#67. One of the great healing balms of the Holy Spirit is forgiveness. To forgive is to break the link between you and your past.
T.D. Jakes
#68. Do the forgiveness and carry on going forward. Leave the worrying to the other person. Eat what is on your plate and leave the rest to them.
Stephen Richards
#69. At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.
Kemi Sogunle
#70. Frustration and Love can't exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing what you would rather be doing in life. Love your life. All of it. Even the heavy shit that happened to you when you were 8. All of it was and IS perfect.
Jason Mraz
#71. I believe our attitude to our problems ultimately determines how we resolve them. If we truly want to be set free, the first thing we need to deal with is our attitude. If you don't get your attitude right, then your life is never going to change.
Corallie Buchanan
#72. Blaming other people inevitably makes us blame ourselves because if we are pointing the finger at someone, practically, we are pointing it at ourselves as well.
Stephen Richards
#73. As human beings, we are custom made to be happy. Why then would we want to change the order of things by not being happy?
Stephen Richards
#74. The enemy wants us unable to forget the terrible things that occurred in the past and instead remember them as though they happened yesterday. God has healing for upsetting memories.
Stormie O'martian
#76. When you forgive, it does not mean that you have submitted, it simply means that you have made a choice to stop bearing any grudge.
Stephen Richards
#77. If you feel like a failure in any area of your life, then you are in need of some self-forgiveness.
Yancy Lael
#78. ... I never understood until the past months why the Master so often withdrew alone into the wilderness. There is not only food and medicine for one's body; there is also healing for the heart and strength for the soul in nature. One gets very close to God ... in these temples of God's own building.
Harold Bell Wright
#79. 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
#80. Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification
Dorothy Holder
#81. The power of nonviolence is not circumstance-specific. It is as applicable to the problems that confront us now, as to problems that confronted generations in the past. It is not a medicine or a solution so much as a healing process. It is the active spiritual immune system of humanity.
Marianne Williamson
#82. Death leaves a heartache no one can heal, love leaves a memory no one can steal.
From an Irish headstone
Richard Puz
#83. All the resentment that lies in your heart is simply causing damage to you mostly.
Stephen Richards
#84. When you make up your mind to forgive, your happiness will almost automatically follow.
Stephen Richards
#85. We trust death to spare us the infirmities of age or the pain of an illness or an injury that is past healing. We trust death to comfort us with forgetfulness of life's sorrows. We trusted that death was a passageway fro life to life.
Catherine M. Wilson
#86. As we come into balance within ourselves and the all that is, we balance the past, future and our Earth.
Jan Porter
#87. By understanding the basic impediments to forgiveness, the repercussions of failing to forgive and the fruits of forgiveness, this will lead you gently to the shoreline of a distinct new and more powerful YOU.
Stephen Richards
#89. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#91. Sometimes it's the scars that remind you that you survived. Sometimes the scars tell you that you have healed.
Ashley D. Wallis
#92. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
Stephen Richards
#93. The first step in healing is to put the focus on what's alive now, not what happened in the past.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#94. The Holy Spirit knows precisely the right timing in our lives. I always say, "Only the Holy Spirit knows when you are ready for what." In other words, the Spirit of the Lord is the only One Who knows what it will take to help you, and when you are ready to receive help.
Joyce Meyer
#95. Getting unstuck is a matter of choice. If you want flourish in life make a choice today to move into that reality. You can do it.
Sereda Aleta Dailey
#96. No matter how you arrive at the awareness and belief that you've lived before and will live again, the most lasting healing benefit will be the change in your attitude. You are creating your future lives right at this moment, and every moment of decision-making.
Lianne Downey
#97. The idea of forgiveness is a journey that requires patience. If the journey of forgiveness is well travelled, there is a chance that we are bound to change in a very helpful way.
Stephen Richards
#98. You are not, though, forgiving so as to let others off with things. You are forgiving so that you can empower yourself to get over it and become strong.
Stephen Richards
#99. What is it you want, Finley Sinclair?"
Some peace. Some healing. To hear God's voice again.
I wanted to find my brother's Ireland. To put it into song.
And I wanted my heart back.
"I'll know it when I find it." I looked past Beckett and into the night sky. "Or when it finds me.
Jenny B. Jones
#100. Past experiences are effluvial.
Burn them.
The now is important.
Sandra Harner
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