Healing Quotes

Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.

~ Robert Brault

To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.

~ Eckhart Tolle

It's not forgetting that heals. It's remembering.

~ Amy Greene

Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn't, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.

~ Emma Forrest

Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

~ Ann Brashares

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnerable with a larger audience is only a good idea if the healing is tied to the sharing, not to the expectations I might have for the response I get.

~ Brené Brown

The wound you refuse to dress is one that will never heal. You gush lifeblood and never even know why. It will make you weak at a critical moment when you need to be strong.

~ Karen Marie Moning

Surgeons can cut out everything except cause.

~ Herbert M. Shelton

I will take away your means of escape.

~ Natsuki Takaya

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

~ Tamora Pierce

you look at me and cryeverything hurtsi hold you and whisperbut everything can heal

~ Rupi Kaur

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you had put the pieces together, even though you might look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall

~ Jodi Picoult

Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.

~ Laura Fitzgerald

NightingaleDid I wound you, mutilate. Take away your voice. Did I cut something from you. Leave you locked in silence?This is what you do: you sing. Every part of you. Your locks of hair sing, your eyes, your hands, your smile. If I listen closely I can even hear your blood.Was I the one that took that away?Go down to the water where we used to swim. Stand under the sky at dawn when the sky is streaked with blood. Open your mouth and shout our secret to the waves. The ocean will be your voice. You won't have to carry anything alone. Little Sister, my Spring, April. Little nightingale. Sant at the edge of the water. Your voice will come back to you. Maybe. If I am silent.

~ Francesca Lia Block

Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft closing of a door, rather than a slam.- John

~ J.r. Ward

Maybe I should find another doctor, one who realizes the importance of scars.

~ Rasmenia Massoud

Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods.

~ Peter A. Levine

Punishments include such things as flashbacks, flooding of unbearable emotions, painful body memories, flooding of memories in which the survivor perpetrated against others, self-harm, and suicide attempts.

~ Alison Miller

Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched...

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but I might be a vampire so I don't give a shit. I'll heal

~ Gena Showalter

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

~ Jodi Picoult

Disease is the biggest money maker in our economy.

~ John H. Tobe

Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18 laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh. --Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh. Great Spirit, allow me to laugh when times get tough.

~ Larry P. Aitken

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over.And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

~ Nancy Werlin

Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us, not the sort of silence that is filled with unspoken criticism or hard withdrawal. The sort of silence that is a place of refuge, of rest, of acceptance of someone as they are. We are all hungry for this other silence. It is hard to find. In its presence we can remember something beyond the moment, a strength on which to build a life. Silence is a place of great power and healing.

~ Rachel Naomi Remen

It is chronic water shortage in the body that causes most diseases of the human body.Dr. Fereydoon Batmanghelidj

~ Masaru Emoto

There is comfort in knowing that you don’t have to pretend anymore, that you are going to do everything within your power to heal.

~ Ellen Bass

You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results.

~ Herbert M. Shelton

And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

~ John Christopher

Lumani had never managed a failed delivery because, in the end, no matter how skilled or how hard they fought back, pressure applied in the right places caused even the strongest men to fracture.But this one? He'd watched her. Studied her. Observed what maybe even Uncle, the reader of people, had missed. This one was already fractured, and the lines between her broken pieces were not fissures but scar material stronger than whatever had once filled those spaces.

~ Taylor Stevens

Cutting out bad habits is far more effective than cutting out organs.

~ Herbert M. Shelton

Through recognizing and realizing the empty essence, instead of being selfish and self-centered, one feels very open and free

~ Tsoknyi Rinpoche

Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt complex” because He accused them of being whited sepulchers—outside clean, inside full of dead men’s bones. Those who admit that they are guilty are like the public sinners and the publicans of whom Our Lord said, “Amen, I say to you, that the publicans and the harlots shall go into the Kingdom of God before you” (Matt. 21:31). Those who think they are healthy but have a hidden moral cancer are incurable; the sick who want to be healed have a chance. All denial of guilt keeps people out of the area of love and, by inducing self-righteousness, prevents a cure. The two facts of healing in the physical order are these: A physician cannot heal us unless we put ourselves into his hands, and we will not put ourselves into his hands unless we know that we are sick. In like manner, a sinner’s awareness of sin is one requisite for his recovery; the other is his longing for God. When we long for God, we do so not as sinners, but as lovers.

~ Fulton J. Sheen

No matter how long it takes to heal...we share the same scars...

~ Daniel Yanez

First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, the person is able to bear the feelings associated with traumatic memories. Third, the person has authority over her memories; she can elect both to remember the trauma and to put memory aside. Fourth, the memory of the traumatic event is a coherent narrative, linked with feeling. Fifth, the person's damaged self-esteem has been restored. Sixth, the person's important relationships have been reestablished. Seventh and finally, the person has reconstructed a coherent system of meaning and belief that encompasses the story of trauma.

~ Judith Lewis Herman

The first lesson to learn is to resign oneself to the little difficulties in life, not to hit out at everything one comes up against. If one were able to manage this one would not need to cultivate great power; even one's presence would be healing.

~ Hazrat Inayat Khan

Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.

~ Kathy Magliato

I don’t want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I’m not healed, but for this moment, I’m better.

~ Kerry Cohen

I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being, to have the courage to accept despair is to be.

~ Michael Novak

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

~ Judith Lewis Herman