Gary Wright Quotes

Think of each wound as you would of a child who has been hurt by a friend. As long as that child is ranting and raving, trying to get back at the friend, one wound leads to another. But when the child can experience the consoling embrace of a parent, she or he can live through the pain, return to the friend, forgive, and build up a new relationship. Be gentle with yourself, and let your heart be your loving parent as you live your wounds through.

My advice is: if you've got to be miserable to write great music, then drive a truck.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

I'm tired of being in a band, but I do want to continue making records and performing, at least a little bit. Making the records isn't always fun. It's fun to be finished with them. Making beautiful things can be quite painful.

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

The best way to heal a broken heart, it turns out, is to find a way to move past the hurt.

Things get better--hurt less--over time. If you let them.

I hollowed out, stopped listening to music, never picked up a pencil, started slipping into old habits. All of the vibrancy I used to see became de-saturated. Lost Slowly, once I had done enough damage to myself, I began to climb out of the hole. Clean. When I made it out, the only thing left inside was the voice, and for the second time in my life, I no longer ignored it - because it was my own.

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

A wound needs air in order to heal. We must talk about and expose those things which have hurt or harmed us in some way. Our wounds need nurturing care in order to heal. If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist. We must carefully do what is necessary to help ourselves feel better.

If someone broke your heart it doesn't mean you should build a wall around it and quit loving. Redirect your love.

You can't patch a wounded soul with a Band-Aid.

Time hath often cured the wound which reason failed to heal.

I have a big hole in my heart," I said. "But it'll close over." I don't want to sound all Dr. Phil," she said. "But don't let the scab seal the pain in, okay?" That's good advice," I said. "I hope I can manage it.

If time heals all wounds, and a book can hold a person's entire life, then you can speed up the process with a pulp time warp.

I am certainly not regenerating French art, but am struggling hard to accomplish something on an unlucky piece of paper which has done me no harm at all, and on which, believe me, I am doing nothing that is good... I hope things will improve eventually; as it is, I am pretty wretched.

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.

Painting has been a smiling mistress to many, but she has been a cruel jilt to me; I did not abandon her, she abandoned me.

When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.

and now, all these years later, it seem to him that the most horrible fact of human existence was that broken hearts mended

Mourning can go on for years and years. It doesn't end after a year, that's a false fantasy. It usually ends when people realize that they can live again, that they can concentrate their energies on their lives as a whole, and not on their hurt, and guilt and pain.

You ask everybody you know: How long does it usually take to get over it? There are many formulas. One year for every year you dated. Two years for every year you dated. It's just a matter of will power: The day you decide it's over, it's over. You never get over it.