Bruce C. Hafen Quotes

When inward tenderness finds the secret hurt, pain itself will crack the rock and Ah! Let the soul emerge.

Healing is the application of love to the places inside that hurt.

No one really forgives unless he has been hurt.

People don't set out being bad. They have deep pain inside.

It's easier to write about pain than about joy. Joy is wordless.

One of the things about grief is that it can bring a deeper perspective into your life; in the end, it has, for me, though it's also brought sorrow.

‎Once we recognize what it is we are feeling, once we recognize we can feel deeply, love deeply, can feel joy, then we will demand that all parts of our lives produce that kind of joy.

The hurt you embrace becomes joy.

When you’re hurting deeply, you go inward.

Maybe that's how I learned to handle my deep hurt - by forgetting.

Love's wounds can be healed only by the one who inflicts them.

There are accounts that, if we open our hearts to them, will cut us too deeply.

A good laugh heals a lot of hurts.

If you do not transform your pain, you will always transmit it.

Whose lenient sorrows find relief, whose joys are chastened by their grief.

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

Grief can have a quality of profound healing because we are forced to a depth of feeling that is usually below the threshold of awareness.

I'm looking back to a period of my life when I was badly hurt and then looking at another time when I felt I had things going for me again, so I suppose there is a theme [of the Faith album].

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

Conserve the vital energy, follow a balanced diet, and always smile and be happy. He who finds joy within himself discovers that his body is charged with electric current, life energy, not from food but from God. If you feel that you can't smile, stand before a mirror and with your fingers pull your mouth into a smile. It is that important!

When things hurt us, we're merely on our way to another spiritual environment.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain... When you are joyous look deep into your heart and you will find that it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy.

Letting go of someone we love is the hardest thing we will ever do. Some people never surrender to love for the fear of being hurt. But to not have loved, to not have felt the immense joy it brings, would have been a far worse kind of death.

The cavity which suffering carves into our souls will one day also be the receptacle of joy.

If we aren't capable of being hurt we aren't capable of feeling joy.