Quotes about Healing
My mama used to say the blues is an ailment that don't like no sunshine in the room.
— Lisa Wingate
Forgiveness given is forgiveness gained.
— Lisa Wingate
One thing that discovering my own history had taught me is that we must learn not to whip ourselves for the failures of others. When a mother cannot love and protect her children, it is not the children who are defective.
— Lisa Wingate
I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.
— Lisa Wingate
There are no bad men. Just the lost looking to be found, sister.
— Lisa Wingate
want a pain I understand instead of the one I don't. I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.
— Lisa Wingate
That's how the grievin' becomes after a time. You've tossed off the black blanket, but scraps of it fall on you unexpected, your life always a quilt with a dark patch or two. The Good Lord uses those to show off the bright colors, I think.
— Lisa Wingate
Clinging to the past so hard it was like leaving an arrow embedded instead of pulling it out and letting the wound bleed clean, then heal.
— Lisa Wingate
For myself and for our Nation, I want to thank my predecessor for all he has done to heal our land.
— Jimmy Carter
It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.
— Maya Angelou
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
— Maya Angelou
I accept myself and create peace in my mind and heart. I now choose to free myself from all destructive fears and doubts. I am loved and I am safe.
— Louise Hay