It's painful, but we can't heal ourselves unless we cleanse the wounds.

God gave us a variety of ways to get hurt out and do it clean. Blood cleans a wound. Tears clean a different kind of wound. You might not like it, Frannie, but you shouldn’t stop yourself from doing it. Clean the wound so it can heal. Then move on.

to heal
you have to
get to the root
of the wound
and kiss it all the way up

You can turn painful situations around through laughter. If you can find humor in anything, even poverty, you can survive it.

Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.

For violence, like Achilles' lance, can heal the wounds it has inflicted