Words of Hope and Healing

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

You can miss them and still be glad you are here. Both can live in one heart.

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.

Verily, with hardship comes ease.

Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

As a person puts aside worn-out clothes and puts on new ones, so the soul sets aside a worn-out body.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

No mud, no lotus.

And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked.

Say good morning to a neighbour, a bird, a plant. Connection can start very small.

It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.

All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.

When you rise in the morning, remember what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

Finding meaning after loss does not mean the loss was worth it. It means we carry love forward.

One who does good never comes to a bad end.

In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.

A cloud never dies. It becomes rain, and then the river, and then the tea in your cup.

Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain.

Every tear waters something. One day, you may be surprised by what grows.

Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

Where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Grief does not shrink so much as life slowly grows around it.

Lead me from the unreal to the real; lead me from darkness to light; lead me from death to immortality.

Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.

To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

A memory that makes you smile through tears is a gift, not a wound.

Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

No great thing is created suddenly.

Many people find, in time, that loss has deepened their compassion and their sense of what matters.

A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Into each life some rain must fall.

Hope does not have to be loud. It can be as small as looking forward to tomorrow's tea.

This too shall pass.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

Rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

One day, remembering will bring more warmth than pain. That day can come slowly.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

Even in hardship, keep the spirit rising in hope.

His compassions fail not. They are new every morning.

Faith is the bird that feels the light and sings when the dawn is still dark.

Laughter after loss is not betrayal. It is love, still alive in you.

Broken places, mended with gold, become part of the beauty.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form.

Spring does not ask winter for permission. Gentler days will come back on their own.

No one ever steps in the same river twice, for it is not the same river, and they are not the same person.

Love bears all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends.

The wound is the place where the light enters you.

The sun rose this morning without needing you to be ready. Let it do some of the work.

However long the night, the dawn will break.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.

Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.

You are still writing your story. This chapter is hard, but it is not the last.

To give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

What you love is worth living for, and part of what you love is still here.

The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.

Only when it is dark enough can you see the stars.

Neither death, nor life, nor things present, nor things to come, shall be able to separate us from the love of God.

No feeling is final.

Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God.

A thing of beauty is a joy for ever.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.