C. S. Lewis Quotes

I just always have to cry out a breakup, and then I can make peace with it pretty quickly.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.

Literary Experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege of individuality.. .Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.

Narrative is the beginning of recovery.

I think my parents gave me a unique name and I have created this unique lifestyle that makes me who I am; it's a cool way of living.

The time it takes to feel better about a breakup is directly proportional to the time it takes to feel better about yourself.

You can never walk a mile in someone elses shoes, but you can walk a mile in your own and be proud of it.

Divorce was emotionally traumatic for me. It was the death of a dream. I was in fairytale land, and the reality of it wasn't so. But I don't really like talking about it anymore, because it feels like a thousand lifetimes ago, and also it makes me look desperate, like I need it for attention.

Forgiveness leads to a shift in perception. It transforms the hurt into healing.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

At some point people either had to throw off the wounds of their childhood or go through life permanently crippled

I was down after divorce - I was all the way down. And I just felt like, "God, I gotta turn this around. I can't go down like this. I have to know that this is happening for a reason." And I knew that I had to turn to music.

We never hid anything from the kids. I feel whole again, I really do. I've told them, 'Mommy's boo-boo is much better now.'

Don't let what you have to heal from blind you to how much there is to heal for.

My relationship with my mom has really evolved since The Hills. We had a very hard time getting through that, and I didn't talk to her for almost two years, but since then we have learned to get over the past and move forward.

There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn't matter anymore.

Healing begins where the wound was made.

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

For me, a breakup changed my entire life. I was a mess. I really got rocked, and I ended up turning it into a positive thing.

For a long time the fear of seeming singular scared me away; but by degrees, as people became accustomed to me and my habits, and to such shadows of peculiarity as were engrained in my nature - shades, certainly not striking enough to interest, and perhaps not prominent enough to offend, but born in and with me, and no more to be parted with than my identity - but slow degrees I became a frequenter of this straight narrow path.

Adolescents sense a secret, unique greatness in thems.elves that seeks expression. They gesture towards the heart when trying to express any of this, a significant clue to the whole affair.