When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them? T H E WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING. Cheryl Strayed
The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...
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Nicholas Sparks
Hearts are breakable, " Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were before".
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Cassandra Clare
The soul is healed by being with children.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky
To be rejected by someone doesn't mean you should also reject yourself or that you should think of yourself as a lesser person. It doesn't mean that nobody will ever love you anymore. Remember that only ONE person has rejected you at the moment, and...
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Jocelyn Soriano
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path...
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Osho
More Quotes By Cheryl Strayed
I'll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don't choose. We'll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn't carry us. There's nothing to do but salute...
He was the most ordinary man in all the world, and yet in her memory he'd become luminous, like the prince in a fairy tale.
The healing power of even the most microscopic exchange with someone who knows in a flash precisely what you're talking about because she experienced that thing too cannot be overestimated.
I was a terrible believer in things, but I was also a terrible nonbeliever in things. I was as searching as I was skeptical. I didn't know where to put my faith, or if there was such a place, or even what the word faith...
Perhaps by now I'd come far enough that I had the guts to be afraid.
