Relationship Healing Quotes

It's kind of crazy to think that I've now been divorced longer than I was married, but I appreciate the journey, because it brought my ex and I back to a friendship that helped us become great co-parents.

A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.

While it takes at least two to reconcile, it only takes one to forgive.

Forgiveness is the only way to break the cycle of blame-and pain-in a relationship...It does not settle all questions of blame and justice and fairness...But it does allow relationships to start over. In that way, said Solzhenitsyn, we differ from all animals. It is not our capacity to think that makes us different, but our capacity to repent, and to forgive.

I'd say that if you had a strained relationship with your mom, for whatever reason, the best thing to do is be open with each other, talk it over, try and work it out somehow as opposed to just putting a wall up and pushing them away.

Marshall Rosenberg provides us with the most effective tools to foster health and relationships. Nonviolent Communication connects soul to soul, creating a lot of healing. It is the missing element in what we do.

Forgiveness prompted by love is the only way to repair the devastation that so often mars our relationships.

If we act the truth the people who really love us are sure to come back to us in the long run

Every breakup is preceded by a bad relationship. So breakups should be cause for celebration and triumph.

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.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

I had a turbulent relationship with my calves, but I love them now because I realize that they were never the problem.

I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.

Most people think of love as some sort of power outside of themselves that will "take them away from all of this." Sadly, this is not the case. Love exists only within our own hearts, and to have happy relationships we must first become truly loving people. And as we fill our hearts with love by expressing love for others in thought, word, and deed ("acting as if" until we make it happen if necessary), that love can heal our own lives, help to solve our problems, and enable us to feel good about ourselves.

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks show us how to discover the secrets to healing, love, intuition and insight.

My wife was the first romantic partner who understood both American and native parts of me - not so much the positive stuff, but the damage.

The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman.

While I may never be in remission from cancer, I am currently in remission from an unhealthy relationship to food.

Learning to heal ruptures is a key to having a successful relationship. Adam and Eve model that for all of us. In Hollywood love is a choice, and you live happily ever after. In real life love is a series of choices. You make the choice to be with a person over and over again.

I wanted to make a record that would transcend the bad, hard feelings of a love relationship not working out, to make something that metabolized it into something useful and good.

I get loads of messages from people telling me they've been helped through some bad relationship when they've listened to my song. That's what I want to do.

Why, when the world gets to understand about it I expect that two men or two women, or a man and a woman, will come in here, and say to me, 'We have quarrelled and outraged each other, we have injured our friend, our wife, our husband; we regret, we would forgive, but we cannot, because we remember. Put between us the atonement of forgetfulness, that we may love each other as of old.'

Salt. Wound. Together at last.

Money cannot buy peace of mind. It cannot heal ruptured relationships, or build meaning into a life that has none.

If your stress is related to another person, finding forgiveness - changing your thoughts and energy around that person - can lower stress.