George Crabbe Quotes

Such wounds to the heart will probably never heal. But we cannot simply sit and stare at our wounds forever.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

And although one broken heart doesn't make me an expert in the subject, I believe you need both things - time and an emotional replacement - to fully mend one.

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

If someone comes along and shoots an arrow into your heart, it's fruitless to stand there and yell at the person. It would be much better to turn your attention to the fact that there's an arrow in your heart.

Some people are afraid of what they might find if they try to analyze themselves too much, but you have to crawl into your wounds to discover where your fears are. Once the bleeding starts, the cleansing can begin.

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.

To heal from the inside out is the key.

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

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.

My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Depression leads him close to his wounds, but only the mourning for what he has missed, missed at the crucial time, can lead to real healing.

We each have been betrayed. Let yourself picture and remember the many ways this is true. Feel the sorrow you have carried from this past. Now sense that you can release this burden of pain by gradually extending forgiveness as your heart is ready.

Forgiving does not usually happen at once. It is a process, sometimes a long one, especially when it comes to wounds gouged deep. And we must expect some lapses...some people seem to manage to finish off forgiving in one swoop of the heart. But when they do, you can bet they are forgiving flesh wounds. Deeper cuts take more time and can use a second coat.

You will recover [from a broken heart] by beginning to identify the difference between frightened and loving parts of your personality.

My forgiving you doesn't make my heart hurt less. It takes awhile to heal.

These tears do me good, they have watered the parched place; perhaps my heart will grow again there!

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

To me, healing means you have to recognize there is a wound and you try to understand what the sources of the wound are, which means you try to tell a story about how it came to be. So you have to engage in some historical interpretation.

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

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

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

I only wish that I had had the courage and the knowledge to have gotten that out of my system, out of my mind or my heart years earlier. But there is no book, there is no manual to tell you how to deal with sexual abuse.