"Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. â€¦Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the â€˜healing feeling.â€™"

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Source : John Bradshaw (2010). “Healing the Shame that Binds You”, p.78, Health Communications, Inc.

John Bradshaw

#Pain Quotes #Sadness Quotes #Healing Quotes

“In order to design buildings with a sensuous connection to life, one must think in a way that goes far beyond form and construction.”
“It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences.”
“I never wanted to be a director.”
“Perhaps, on the whole, embarrassment and perplexity are a kind of natural accompaniment to life and movement; and it is better to be driven out of your senses with thinking which of two things you ought to do than to do nothing whatever, and be utterly uninteresting to all the world.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2014). “Miss Marjoribanks”, p.430, The Floating Press
“Tell us again, for we forget, that work done without love is stillborn, mindless, and lost in the very hour of its deliverance.”
“Elvis is dead and I don't feel good for myself.”
“I have always suspected that too much knowledge is a dangerous thing. It is a boon to people who don't have deep feelings; their pleasure comes from what they know. . . . But this only emphasizes the difference between the artist and the scholar.”
“I thought we were aggressive across the board defensively, and you could just see it grow. As the game went along, you could see the confidence grow. It showed in the fourth quarter.”

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