"When the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something's suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful."
~Barbara Bloom~
"The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in your body will scream out to give up. In these moments, God is right there with you, holding your head up, and carrying you when you cannot walk anymore. Even if you are holding on with your teeth, and your knuckles are red and bleeding, it is crucial that you still hold on. Don’t give up! You have too much to lose!"
~Corallie Buchanan~
"Mirrors should think longer before they reflect."
~Jean Cocteau~
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
~Joan Didion~
"The most beautiful people we have know are those who have known defeat, known
suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross~
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
~Ann Landers~
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you".
~Lewis B. Smedes~
"...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do- determined to save the only life you could save."
~Mary Oliver ~
"In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale."
~Stephen Phillips~
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world
"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~
"If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on
the outside of our bodies."
~Elmer Rice~
"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
~Alice Seebold~
"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to
bring you flowers."
~Veronica A. Shoffstall~
"Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. "
~Charles H. Spurgeon~
~Barbara Bloom~
"The road to healing is a rocky one, and you need to know that. There are times when every fibre in your body will scream out to give up. In these moments, God is right there with you, holding your head up, and carrying you when you cannot walk anymore. Even if you are holding on with your teeth, and your knuckles are red and bleeding, it is crucial that you still hold on. Don’t give up! You have too much to lose!"
~Corallie Buchanan~
"Mirrors should think longer before they reflect."
~Jean Cocteau~
"The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs."
~Joan Didion~
"The most beautiful people we have know are those who have known defeat, known
suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These people have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep, loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen."
~ Elizabeth Kubler Ross~
"Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life, and when it comes, hold your head high, look it squarely in the eye and say, 'I will be bigger than you. You cannot defeat me."
~Ann Landers~
"To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you".
~Lewis B. Smedes~
"...there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world, determined to do the only thing you could do- determined to save the only life you could save."
~Mary Oliver ~
"In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale."
~Stephen Phillips~
"Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world
"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~
"If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on
the outside of our bodies."
~Elmer Rice~
"You save yourself or you remain unsaved."
~Alice Seebold~
"Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to
bring you flowers."
~Veronica A. Shoffstall~
"Hope itself is like a star- not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity. "
~Charles H. Spurgeon~