Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn’t know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn’t even smell like smoke.
Joyce MeyerOne of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.
Wayne DyerThere is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
George EliotIn order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.
Thich Nhat HanhI was in my late thirties when my eyes were opened to truth in God’s Word that showed me I wasn’t living the abundant life Jesus died for me to have. I had a very negative mindset and was miserable most of the time because of the abuse I had experienced throughout my childhood.
Joyce MeyerWhen you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.
Cristiano RonaldoWhether a person is straight or gay, Republican, Democrat, good person, not a good person, they’re all welcome, because to me, church is a place you’re supposed to get healed and whole and loved.
Joel OsteenThe soul is healed by being with children.
Fyodor DostoevskyA lot of times, people feel that if they forgive the person who hurt them, then they will continue to take advantage of them or not take responsibility for what they did wrong.
Joyce MeyerOver the years I’ve seen people lose a spouse and then withdraw and lose interest in life, and I believe we need to resist that.
Billy GrahamI enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard ShawI don’t like begging money from producers.
David ByrneWe humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don’t allow our bodies to heal, and we don’t allow our minds and hearts to heal.
Thich Nhat HanhMedicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.
Leonardo da VinciThe most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.
Billy GrahamThe love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.
Maya AngelouAt some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
Taylor SwiftI think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
Thich Nhat HanhGrief is the price we pay for love.
Queen Elizabeth IIYou see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.
Joyce MeyerIrrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.
Russell M. NelsonSo many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.
Joyce MeyerNatural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
HippocratesMuch of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Khalil GibranHistory shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.
Lady GagaCry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.
Abby Lee MillerLaughter heals all wounds, and that’s one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you’re going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.
Kevin HartMeditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
Thich Nhat HanhGreat grief does not of itself put an end to itself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaTime heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise PascalPeople have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!
Billie EilishMy focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim CarreyIt is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Jesus ChristI think writing really helps you heal yourself. I think if you write long enough, you will be a healthy person. That is, if you write what you need to write, as opposed to what will make money, or what will make fame.
Alice WalkerThere are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.
Joyce MeyerI see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity.
Pope FrancisA stiff apology is a second insult… The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
Gilbert K. ChestertonIt’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.
Maya AngelouOh, come, Divine Physician, and bind up every broken bone. Come with Thy sacred nard which Thou hast compounded of Thine own heart’s blood, and lay it home to the wounded conscience and let it feel its power. Oh! Give peace to those whose conscience is like the troubled sea which cannot rest.
Charles SpurgeonWhere grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.
Samuel JohnsonNothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWhat I want for my fans and for the world, for anyone who feels pain, is to lean into that pain and embrace it as much as they can and begin the healing process.
Lady GagaPatience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
DrakeBitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.
Maya AngelouThe art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
VoltaireIn my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, ‚Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn’t understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn’t fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn’t want it to get any worse. You’re the mother of my kids – I don’t want to hate you.‘
Kevin HartMany of my fans often tell me that they listen to my songs to get through things. And therefore, obviously, I hope that they can picture being in a place where things are better… I hope my songs can bring people to a calm place.
AuroraI can honestly say, after talking about my mom passing away, I got the biggest weight off of my chest. Comedy is my therapy. That’s how I deal with my problems, my personal battles. I talk about it. I give it to my fans. When they laugh at it, it’s a release, for lack of a better word.
Kevin HartMany churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.
Billy GrahamChanging is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.
Thich Nhat HanhI believe time wounds all heels.
John LennonThe wish for healing has always been half of health.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.
Noam ChomskyForgotten is forgiven.
F. Scott FitzgeraldIt’s true my father abused me and didn’t love and protect me the way he should have, and at times it seemed no one would ever help me and it would never end. But God always had a plan for my life, and He has redeemed me.
Joyce MeyerMedicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
Karl MarxWhat medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
HippocratesGrief changes shape, but it never ends.
Keanu Reeves