Veronica Roth Quotes

We are all healers who can reach out and offer health, and we are all patients in constant need of help.

My heart seems to heal, so that speaks well for my future.

Relationships are where we take our recovery on the road.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

I'm a creative person who had a lot of dark time in my life. I can still get to it: I can still go to a relationship or a time when things weren't great. But it's getting further and further from me.

You cannot heal yourself. You cannot heal anybody else. We're designed to do this in community because we were created inside community for community by community.

I'm trying to stay focused - trying to open up again - and the music really did a lot of greatness for me and meeting a lot of people that really had concern and compassion for me.

We want to turn victims into survivors - and survivors into thrivers.

Letting go is fearless. Then, moving on and being alright, that’s fearless too.

It is not a sudden leap from sick to well. It is a slow, strange meander from sick to mostly well. The misconception that eating disorders are a medical disease in the traditional sense is not helpful here. There is no 'cure'. A pill will not fix it, though it may help. Ditto therapy, ditto food, ditto endless support from family and friends. You fix it yourself. It is the hardest thing that I have ever done, and I found myself stronger for doing it. Much stronger.

You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

If I diminish you, I diminish myself

I want to try to not be the child that had to go through too much too young. I want to be who I am now and not who I was then.

And it can be a way of healing.

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.

All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.

Friendship is a give and take. You have to have a strong relationship with your friend and I think you have to offer them something and they have to offer you something and that’s to always learn from it.

How strange that we should ordinarily feel compelled to hide our wounds when we are all wounded! Community requires the ability to expose our wounds and weaknesses to our fellow creatures. It also requires the ability to be affected by the wounds of others... But even more important is the love that arises among us when we share, both ways, our woundedness.

Look at yourself as someone who is reaching for healing, and at the complexity of what needs to be healed. Do not think that you exist alone without other human beings of equal complexity.

We wouldn't be alive without love we wouldn't have survived without running maybe we shouldn't be surprised that getting better at one could make you better at the other.

Community means strength that joins our strength to do the work that needs to be done. Arms to hold us when we falter. A circle of healing. A circle of friends. Someplace where we can be free.