40+ Quotes to Help Relieve Your Emotional Pain
RELIEVING YOUR PAIN FROM SADNESS, GRIEF, HEARTBREAK & DEPRESSION
Relieving Your Emotional Pain
Made You Smile Back is here ready and willing to help relieve and heal your emotional pain, whether it be from sadness, loss, grief, a broken heart and/or depression.
Emotional pain is different for everyone. We experience true bouts of emotional pain in some form during life. Emotional pain is the mental anguish and despair one gets from suffering from common emotions such as sadness, loss, grief, heartbreak, and/or depression.
Do you find yourself saying to others: “You will never understand my pain”.
Yes, I won’t minimize it… The reality is, dealing with emotional pain is extremely difficult. But you must be willing to learn how to cope and heal from this pain in a healthy way.
Remember, emotions are what make us special and human. Per Dr. Shelley Sommerfeldt, Clinical Psychologist, Relationship Coach & Founder of the Loving Roots Project, she states:
“Emotions are useful. They help us adapt. We can’t control, stop, or get rid of them. You are doing the best you can to cope, but the emotional issue is still there.“
Developing good coping skills is really essential to the process of healing.
It is often difficult to find the silver lining and try to be happy. However, you can become happier if you work to accept and explore your sadness, change your thinking patterns and take active and healthy steps to find yourself again and regain your happiness.
Good coping skills include having compassion for yourself and surround yourself with loving and caring people. For Made You Smile Back, I humbly offer these inspiring and thought-provoking quotes to help you take a moment for yourself, reflect and begin the healing process for yourself… for your soul.
QUOTES ABOUT GRIEF
Unfortunately, the reality of life is that the death of a loved one and more importantly, the sadness and loss that follows is one of the hardest experiences we will ever go thru as human beings.
How you deal with this emotional pain of grieving of sadness and loss may be different than another person who is also grieving. I present these grief quotes which can hopefully help you with your loss. They can also be a way to reach out to someone you know who may also be dealing with sadness as a result of losing a loved one.
“To live in the hearts of whom we leave behind is not to die…”
– Thomas Campbell
“At the blueness of the skies, and in the warmth of the summer, we remember them.“
– Silvan Kemetis
“Grieving doesn’t make you imperfect. It makes you human.”
– Sarah Dessen
“The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not ‘get over’ the loss of a loved one; you will learn to live with it. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered. You will be whole again but you will never be the same. Nor should you be the same nor would you want to.“
— Elizabeth Kubler-Ross and David Kessler
“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.”
– Helen Keller
“Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Tears shed for another person are not a sign of weakness. They are a sign of a pure heart.”
– Jose N. Harris
“Perhaps they are not the stars in the sky, but rather openings where our loved ones shine down to let us know they are happy.”
– Unknown
“Your memory feels like home to me. So whenever my mind wanders, it always finds it’s way back to you.”
Ranata Suzuki
SELF-HEALING QUOTES
When we are going thru a lot of stress, unhappiness, illness, depression or sadness in our lives, it is so important that we give ourselves self-compassion. To open our hearts in a way that can transform our lives. –
Self-care is the mindset, activities, practices and habits we bring to bear against these life difficulties and emotional pain we endure.
One of my favorite self-healing activities is maintaining a gratitude or happiness journal. By routinely writing in your journal it shall relieve undue stress and allows us to explore what you are grateful for despite what’s going on around you and a powerful reminder of the good in your life.
With that in mind, let me present these powerful self-healing quotes to help you in relieving your emotional pain. And if any should personally resonate with you, then, by all means, be sure to write it down in your journal to go back to whenever you need to.
“We cannot selectively numb emotions. When we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.”
– Brené Brown
“Your pain is an opportunity for you to learn about yourself.”
– Gary Zukov
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
– Kahlil Gibran
“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”
Brennan Manning
“We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.“
Marianne Williamson
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
Kenji Miyazawa
“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.”
Akshay Dubey
“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.”
– Haruki Murakami
“People try to hide their pain. But they’re wrong. Pain is something to carry, like a radio. You feel your strength in the experience of pain. It’s all in how you carry it. That’s what matters. Pain is a feeling. Your feelings are a part of you. Your own reality. If you feel ashamed of them, and hide them, you’re letting society destroy your reality. You should stand up for your right to feel your pain.”
Jim Morrison
QUOTES FOR GETTING THRU A BROKEN HEART OR BREAKUP
There’s not much that’s worse than a breakup — even if you’re the one who made the painful decision to end the relationship. There’s no escaping the residual feeling of finding yourself in emotional pain. A broken heart is one of the most painful emotions we can get through.
So first and foremost, although you feel depressed, sad and alone, you’re allowed to wallow and grieve. This is a major loss to you and although your mental side may agree, this event may have been the best thing for you. Do take the necessary time to miss that person, cry and allow yourself to do some self-healing.
Unfortunately, no matter how devastating breakups can be, sooner or later, it’s important to accept that the only person responsible for your healing is you and you alone.
I know it may feel like this destressing emotional pain will never go away, but it’s so important to make a proactive decision to move forward (instead of letting pain and fear take over).
The following quotes about moving on and getting beyond to a better place will help you in this process. Hopefully, they shall make it clear that heartbreak is a normal and necessary part of everyone’s journey, and that ultimately, moving on is just that: a journey.
Personal growth and new opportunities are waiting for you at the end of the tunnel, I promise. So to encourage and inspire you for the times when you need extra motivation or inspiration to get through the day, here are some powerful heartfelt quotes to help you navigate through your feelings with a lost love.
“It is our wounds that create in us a desire to reach for miracles. The fulfillment of such miracles depends on whether we let our wounds pull us down or lift us up toward our dreams.”
– Jocelyn Soriano
“Tears are God’s heartshield wipers. They clear the ‘pain’ from our hearts so we can see the ‘path’ clearly.”
– Beth Elkassih
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
– Deborah Reber
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have — life itself.”
– Walter Anderson
“We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
– E.M. Forster
“One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a breakup.”
– Mandy Hale
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
– Steve Maraboli
“Always believe that something wonderful is about to happen. What appear to be the END may really be a new BEGINNING.”
– Unknown
Sometimes a ‘goodbye’ simply means you’re that much closer to a new ‘hello’! Everything will change and it is going to be beautiful and better than ever before. Have faith.
– Beth Elkassih
QUOTES TO RELIEVE YOUR PAIN OF DEPRESSION
When writing this blog about powerful quotes to relieve your emotional pain, I definitely wanted to include a collection for those of us who suffer from depression. As I too tackle bouts of depression and anxiety from time to time.
It’s important to remember you’re not alone and that others feel your pain and care for you. That said, trying to relieving your emotional pain of depression is not always easy to do. So to help you, the following are thought-provoking quotes selected in order to express yourself and the moods you’re feeling.
I hope you’ll find relief, meaning, and perhaps inspiration from these amazing quotes to help you get through your day to day battle, to help you find yourself again when facing everyday life struggles.
“You are strong. You are beautiful. You are resilient. You are loved. You are capable. You are not weak. You are not defected. You are not weird. You are not a lost cause. You are not different. You’re just human…”
– The Anxiety Man
“No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.“
– Ursula K. Le Guin
“Depression lies. It tells you you’ve always felt this way, and you always will. But you haven’t, and you won’t.“
– Halley Cornell
“No storm, not even the one in your life, can last forever. The storm is just passing over.“
– Iyanla Vanzant
“You are more than your thoughts. You are more than your fears and stronger than you give yourself credit for.“
– The Anxiety Man
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.“
– Oprah Winfrey
“You need to know that part of being strong and tough is having the courage to ask for help when you need it. You must not silently suffer. You are all in this together. And, if I may speak personally, we are all in this together because asking for help was one of the best decisions that I have ever made. You will me continually amazed how life changes for the better.“
– Prince Harry
“I am bent, but not broken. I am scarred, but not disfigured. I am sad, but not hopeless. I am tired, but not powerless. I am angry, but not bitter. I am depressed, but not giving up.”
– Unknown
“Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; this too shall pass.”
– Andrew Soloman
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