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title: "3 Healing Began Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Healing Began quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Healing Began sayings and thoughts."
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> [“There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-strayed/there-was-only-the-stillness-and-silence-of-that-water-what-a/)

[Cheryl Strayed](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-strayed/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/006/cheryl-strayed-605_silence_there-was-only-the-stillness-and-silence_1650999.png)

> [Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bebe-moore-campbell/once-my-loved-one-accepted-the-diagnosis-healing-began-for-the-entire/)

[Bebe Moore Campbell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bebe-moore-campbell/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f73/bebe-moore-campbell-25644_accepted_once-my-loved-one-accepted-the-diagnosis_1874219.png)

> [I sat in my desolation Withdrawn from all around, Feeling my life was a ruin, a failure. I was empty inside with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marjorie-pizer/i-sat-in-my-desolation-withdrawn-from-all-around-feeling-my-life-was/)

[Marjorie Pizer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marjorie-pizer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bc6/marjorie-pizer-260099_care_i-sat-in-my-desolation-withdrawn-from-al_2672918.jpg)

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