Healing Quotes

Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.

~ Alveda King

I believe in the healing power of the arts, and whenever anyone can bring art into anyone's life, it's a special thing.

~ Austin Nichols

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.

~ Artur Davis

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.

~ Samuel Butler

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.

~ Norman Cousins

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

~ Parker Posey

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that's because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.

~ Marlo Thomas

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca

You can't afford to get sick, and you can't depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It's up to you to protect and maintain your body's innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.

~ Andrew Weil

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.

~ Rodney King

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

~ Chris Tucker

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

~ Michael Graves

Trust leads to intimacy, which leads to healing and meaning. We can only be intimate to the degree we can make ourselves vulnerable. But when we open our hearts, we can get hurt.

~ Dean Ornish

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.

~ Sylvia Fraser

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

~ Louis Zamperini

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

~ Linda Ronstadt

America's present need is not heroics but healing not nostrums but normalcy not revolution but restoration.

~ Warren G. Harding

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

~ Henri Nouwen

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word.

~ Alan K. Simpson

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

~ Beth Moore

There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.

~ Rupi Kaur

When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church... When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don't go it alone - you won't make it.

~ Josh Mcdowell

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.

~ Brooke Shields