Healing Quotes

Something ancient in us bends us toward the origins of the whole thing. We either drown in the splits and confusions of our lives, or we surrender to something greater than ourselves. The water of our deepest troubles is also the water of our own solution. In surrender, we descend down to the bottom of it and back to the beginning of it; down into what is divided in order to get back to the wholeness before the split. Healing, health, wealth, wholeness: all hail from the same roots. To heal is to make whole again; wholeness is what all healing seeks and what alone can truly unify our spirit.

~ Michael Meade

The damage and invisible scars of emotional abuse are very difficult to heal, because memories are imprinted on our minds and hearts and it takes time to be restored. Imprints of past traumas do not mean a person cannot change their future beliefs and behaviors. as people, we do not easily forget. However, as we heal, grieve, and let go, we become clear-minded and focused to live restore and emotionally healthy.

~ Dee Brown

Only absolute simplicity can resolve a horrible complication; only a state free from psychology can heal psychological connections, and only a lucid brain can let go of a compulsive thought.

~ Shai Tubali

You don't ever heal your heart, you learn that your heart is the one that heals you, once you know to let it.

~ Christian Donald Joseph Poulin

When we believe a wounding story, our whole world is diminished.

~ Sharon Salzberg

There is dignity after the storm.

~ Catherine Jane Fisher

The good news is you survived. The bad news is you're hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.

~ Clementine Von Radics

Gnag bends things for breaking, and the Maker makes a flourish! Evil digs a pit, and the Maker makes a well! That is his way.

~ Andrew Peterson

We all have scars, my beautiful one. They make us who we are, and if we let them, they bring us together.

~ Jocelyn Green

I am Mother Nature. All of creation bows before me. When people leave their cities and learn of me—walk in my woods, bathe in my rivers, eat of my harvest—they will find healing to their souls. But stray from me and return to the supposed wisdom of men, and they will find themselves in chains once more.

~ Seth Adam Smith

As you heal, you see yourself more realistically. You accept that you are a person with strengths and weaknesses. You make the changes you can in your life and let go of the things that aren’t in your power to change. You learn that every part of you is valuable. And you realize that all of your thoughts and feelings are important, even when they’re painful or difficult.

~ Ellen Bass

Scar tissue — it’s a new layer of tender skin, lightly covering the wound. Still a vulnerable spot, the slightest little knock might tear the skin so it bleeds and the remembered ache from the old wound intensifies the pain from the latest blow.

~ Jinat Rehana Begum

I had wanted you and then I got you, and it’s hard to say who really chased who. Want like ours was two cats and no mice. Want like ours manifested paradise. You ran for me and I ran away… until I ran toward you and you did the same. And it happened so fast. We collided so fast. You became mine so fast.

~ B.a. Perry

When we encounter sorrow and betrayal stay present and learn. There is a lesson waiting to unfold, allow yourself to soften into the experience.

~ Gillian Elizabeth

The greatest mischief of medicine has occurred because life was not honored. Women have been robbed of the glory of their own bodies with, in recent times, removal and mutilation of reproductive organs and breasts, and the treatment of natural passages of life -- birthing, menstruation, menopause -- as disease.

~ Jeanne Achterberg

In a balanced viewpoint that includes both masculine and feminine perspective, healing is seen not as a technique, but as a process.

~ Jeanne Achterberg

I prayed for someone to love me as much as I loved you. Eventually I came to see that that Someone was me.

~ Kate Mcgahan

Everything you need to heal is inside yourself. You only need support and encouragement to listen to yourself—to your thoughts, feelings, imagery, and inner spiritual urgings. A book, like a therapist or group, can only guide you, helping you to say out loud what you dared not say even to yourself.

~ Renee Fredrickson

Learning to be present with an open heart for others is the best way to help them heal.

~ Kathleen Prasad

Because people heal a whole lot faster when they're with someone who loves them

~ Robin Roe

Acknowledging our heartache and our hardship is the first step in coping and dealing with it.

~ Luschka Van Onselen

Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

~ John Steinbeck

Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my experience, the most healing of pleasures.

~ Harold Bloom

Once you've fixed the small things that consume your emotional and mental energy, you may be surprised to find you suddenly have time for the things you enjoy

~ Luschka Van Onselen

Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.

~ Carolyn Spring

Identifying your feelings can help you explain your reactions

~ Luschka Van Onselen

Isolation is at the heart of all disease, therefore healing requires community and the support of others.

~ Sharon Weil

It is amazing how women spend too much time and energy scheming, plotting and seducing men when they should spend more time listening, learning and getting over desperation.

~ Benyf

There will always be the facts of life to contend with, and there are times when the facts can become overwhelming. Yet, there is a poem at the heart of things and a mythic story in the heart of each of us. At certain times it is the poetry of life and the mythic imagination of the soul that become necessary in order to heal the wounds inflicted by an excess of reason or an overuse of force. When we unfold the story wound within our souls and untie the knots within us, we add presence to the world and contribute to the spirit of life in a specific and authentic way.

~ Michael Meade

Scars are the evidence that wounds can heal. That wounds don't last forever. That healing is possible.

~ Lecrae Moore

God is able to fix that which is broken so that what stands repaired is immeasurably greater than that which stood before it needed repair. Therefore, the most staggering brokenness conceivable is in reality the greatest opportunity imaginable.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

NOTHING IS STRONGER THAN THE RESILIENCE OF THE HUMAN SPIRIT. (found in an ad at Goodreads, but similar to the following quote by Bern Williams) : Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

~ Bern Williams

The power of the work comes through this alchemical process in which the darkness is transmuted into light, and the energy that was trapped in maintaining rigid social structures and unhealthy cultural conditioning becomes freed up and released.

~ William Keepin

I want my girls to know who they are and have strong family connections. I want them to be educated. I want them to travel the world. I want them to be able to support themselves, and if they choose to be in a long-term relationship, it will be based on their strengths, not their weaknesses.And I know that in order for them to get there, it is important that I take more than a surface glance at how I ended up in my unhealthy and unsafe relationship with their father. Only then will I ever have any hope of keeping my history from repeating itself in their future.

~ Lizbeth Meredith

Moving beyond past wounds and hurts and building a culture of respect, dignity, and flowering love

~ William Keepin

Delving deeply in this [gender healing] work inevitably takes people on an inner journey, and, if they follow it far enough, they are ultimately let into an awakening of an expansive, all-encompassing love.

~ William Keepin

This is your story and you get to decide how it's written.

~ Rebekah Elizabeth Gamble

We became acutely aware of the profound healing that is needed in our species. We knew with conviction that what we were doing, as women and men together, was confronting the cultural dynamics that are killing us all- killing women and men, killing our children, killing the planet.

~ William Keepin

If the sun never set, we would have no perception of the vast depths of space, which become visible only at night when we are able to see what is obscured by the bright daylight

~ William Keepin

As the community stays with the uncomfortable tension of contradiction, individuals begin to perceive the truth of “the other” as their own experience, and the polarities of conflicting positions often dissolve into an unexpected emergence of a deeper underlying unity: a profound recognition that, ultimately, there is no “other”. We are all one.

~ William Keepin