CURATED COLLECTION

Healing From Pain

Healing is not linear and it doesn't announce itself — on finding your way back through the dark.

32 quotes found

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Healing is not linear. I keep relearning this.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Pain is not a curse; it is the path the spirit walks to reach the light.

—Mahadevi VarmaPoet & Writer

Early Modern ERA • South Asia

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Healing is an ongoing process of remembering and integrating fractured pieces of self.

—Gloria AnzaldúaTheorist & Writer

Contemporary ERA • North America

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El hogar es donde el corazón se quiebra y se reconstruye una y otra vez.

—Rosario FerréNovelist, Writer & Essayist

Late Modern ERA • Caribbean

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I know the world is bruised and bleeding, and though it is important not to ignore its pain, it is also critical to refuse to succumb to its malevolence.

—Jesmyn WardNovelist & Editor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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I tried to drown my sorrows, but the bastards learned how to swim.

—Frida KahloPainter

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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My mother tongue is the house I carry on my back.

—Meena AlexanderPoet & Memoirist

Contemporary ERA • South Asia

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What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives.

—Rupi KaurPoet

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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I will go on loving, even if love means tears and sorrow.

—Juana de IbarbourouPoet

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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My culture is my armor and my undoing.

—Terese Marie MailhotAuthor

Digital Age ERA • North America

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Though grief shadows my path, my spirit finds strength to endure each dawn.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

—Rainer Maria RilkePoet

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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The light of hope always shines even in the darkest corners of despair.

—Ba JinNovelist & Thinker

Early Modern ERA • East Asia

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I write because I have to. I write because I have to make sense of my world.

—Edwidge DanticatNovelist & Essayist

Contemporary ERA • Caribbean

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I am from here. I shall live here and die here, and I shall never leave.

—Tayeb SalihNovelist

Post-War ERA • North Africa

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I will die for the good of my country, and for the liberty of my people.

—Toussaint LouvertureRevolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • Caribbean

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To survive trauma means to remember trauma.

—Jenny ZhangPoet & Writer

Digital Age ERA • East Asia

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In a city of refugees, every day was a lesson in how to live with impermanence.

—Mohsin HamidNovelist

Digital Age ERA • South Asia

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Sorrow is a river. You cannot stop it, only learn to swim.

—Grace OgotAuthor & Politician

Post-War ERA • East Africa

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His memory lives within me, a constant companion through every trial.

—Layla al-AkhyaliyyaPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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