Healing Quotes

They say we live in hard times. They say the world is full of suffering and pain and ignorance and violence. But is that not better than helpless, grinned and beared mediocrity? Is this not the time of opportunity? When will we learn the importance of peace, if not in war? When will we learn the importance of loving ourselves except through self-hatred? How else will we come together except to realize how we hurt when we are apart? The world is not full of horror. It is full of opportunity. It is not lacking in love. It is hungry for it. So eat. So feed.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.

~ Marta Mrotek

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

~ Lillian Smith

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

~ Mary Oliver

She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in the months before her death, to be completely healed. Death is the price for rebirth.Death. Who would have thought it would come with such great joy? Yet, after long years battling illness, death is suddenly more than welcome.

~ Victoria Kahler

I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To “prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.

~ Christina Enevoldsen

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

~ Yann Martel

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subject, I did not consider it advisable to dwell, for the details of what I had undergone belonged to a portion of my existence in which I never expected my godmother to take a share. Into what a new region would such a confidence have led that hale, serene nature! The difference between her and me might be figured by that between the stately ship cruising safe on smooth seas, with its full complement of crew, a captain gay and brave, and venturous and provident; and the life-boat, which most days of the year lies dry and solitary in an old, dark boat-house, only putting to sea when the billows run high in rough weather, when cloud encounters water, when danger and death divide between them the rule of the great deep. No, the Louisa Bretton never was out of harbour on such a night, and in such a scene: her crew could not conceive it; so the half-drowned life-boat man keeps his own counsel, and spins no yarns.

~ Charlotte Brontë

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

~ Shannon L. Alder

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

~ Chris Prentiss

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

~ Michele Rosenthal

Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like, it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.

~ Bryant Mcgill

We’d all lost ourselves and found something far more significant together. We reached with gaping wounds for a healing we desired so badly, like a blind man picturing the world around him—the lively children skipping rope, green grass, blue sky. It’s like that man standing in his vision, rising from the park bench, arms outstretched, taking the first steps into a world he only hopes exists.

~ Christopher Hawke

When we encounter a friend who's depressed or afraid, we automatically try to take that distress away and to cheer the person up. While we may be operating with the best of intentions, this Band-Aid approach only reinforces the condition. Unless people experience their pain completely and begin to undrstand it, they will not only fail to overcome it, they'll also lose the opportunity of using it to advance their own growth. Pain can get you somewhere, and that somewhere can be a life-enhancing experience. We all tend to forget that pain can signal change. Alleviating the symptoms of pain in someone, without helping them to get at its underlying source, robs them of an important to for self-exploration. It's also a way of placating that reinforces the person'S need to cave in and succumb to another. This attitude undermines healthy character development and contributes to psychospiritual, moral, and ultimately social decay.

~ Adele Von Rust Mccormick

People grow when they are loved well. If you want to help others heal, love them without an agenda.

~ Mike Mchargue

I want to share my story, and I want to know yours. I believe with all my heart that sharing our stories, the real, ugly, broken ones, is one of the most powerful things in the world, because to share our story we must first accept it. We must own it. We must stop running from it or shoving it into the corner when company comes over. To share our story is to admit that we've been changed.

~ Anna White

...each of the painful problems in our lives contains valuable healing lessons. They teach us awareness and hopefully convince us to let go of our blind spots, prejudices, and tendencies to ignore our intuition and other growth lessons.

~ Doreen Virtue

Everybody's got skeletons in the closets. Every once in a while, you've got to open up the closet and the let the skeletons breathe. Half the time, the very thing you think is gonna destroy you or ruin you is the very thing that nobody cares about. My advice to people with skeletons is to dust them off every now and then-- as long as your closet's aint full of them. It's not good to have more than two or three.

~ Tyler Perry

What you allow inside of you will settle there unless you find an effective way to work it out.

~ Malebo Sephodi

Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.

~ Sharon Salzberg

I choose to let positive attitudes lighten my being today.

~ Maureen Brady

When you recognize that you will thrive not in spite of your losses and sorrows, but because of them, that you would not have chosen the things that happened in your life, but you are grateful for them, that you will hold the empty bowls eternally in your hands, but you also have the capacity to fill them?THE WORD FOR THAT IS HEALING.

~ Cheryl Strayed

One of the most difficult things I ever did was learn to support myself through my whole range of emotional experiences without running away.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Be real. Be authentic. Be yourself, whatever the emotional cost. Pain goes away, while regret over a life lived trying to be a plastic version of yourself does not.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Because we were treated neglectfully and abusively in our young years—when we most needed self-love to be mirrored—it was difficult to hold onto…We take up the challenge of learning to love ourselves, through our highs & our lows, when we are finding acceptance from others and when we are being closed out and rejected.

~ Maureen Brady

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

~ Bryant Mcgillns

Always follow your Heart; unless it's been broken, then you must lead it. Back into Love, The Universe

~ Mike Dooley

When we stop looking for someone to complete us, we find completion in ourselves.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

Healing comes from love. And loving every living thing in turn helps you love yourself.

~ Portia De Rossi

Most people are afraid to really take the time and do the work required to love self enough to cradle their wounded parts like a newborn baby before involving anyone else in their life.

~ Sanjo Jendayi

The more you've struggled to heal and love yourself, the more inspiring your story will be to others when you come out the other side full of triumph, awareness, and honour. Don't give up. Your struggle today is the source of your wisdom tomorrow.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

I am happy not because I am without pain, but because I know I am not that pain.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

We have a love-shaped hole within us.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

What happens when people open their hearts?They get better.

~ Haruki Murakami

On the girl's brown legs there were many small white scars. I was thinking, Do those scars cover the whole of you, like the stars and the moons on your dress? I thought that would be pretty too, and I ask you right here please to agree with me that a scar is never ugly. That is what the scar makers want us to think. But you and I, we must make an agreement to defy them. We must see all scars as beauty. Okay? This will be our secret. Because take it from me, a scar does not form on the dying. A scar means, I survived.

~ Chris Cleave

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

~ Frida Kahlo

The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.

~ Robert James Waller

We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

~ Bo Sánchez

Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

~ Linda Hogan