Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

I drink a lot of coconut water. It balances out all the other toxic stuff I put into my body.

Over 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.

There is one thing I have never taught my body how to do and that is to figure out at 6 A.M. what it wants to eat at 6 P.M.

When you lose a person you love so much, surviving the loss is difficult.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let’s seek to heal rather than to wound each other.

Obviously, you go through a lot of emotional turmoil in a divorce.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there’s less of you.

There 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.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

Family quarrels are bitter things. They don’t go according to any rules. They’re not like aches or wounds, they’re more like splits in the skin that won’t heal because there’s not enough material.

I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises.

I firmly believe that sleep and recovery are critical aspects of an effective and holistic training program.

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless.

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

Disease is the retribution of outraged Nature.

A feeble body weakens the mind.

To keep the body in good health is a duty… otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.

Turkey must find its place if, of course, it can heal its internal sores, and none is more malignant than the perennial Kurdish issue.

In 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.‘

Oh, 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.

Economic depression cannot be cured by legislative action or executive pronouncement. Economic wounds must be healed by the action of the cells of the economic body – the producers and consumers themselves.

I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

I’m much healthier now.

One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

The first wealth is health.

You 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.

I found music to be the therapy of choice. I guess it is for a lot of people.

It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has.

What some call health, if purchased by perpetual anxiety about diet, isn’t much better than tedious disease.

Drinking water is essential to a healthy lifestyle.

I have inhaled, exhaled everything.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

We 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.

I don’t dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it’s gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin‘ White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It’s connected to where you are today.

So many people live with anger and unforgiveness, and many of them are Christians.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

Touring is hard on the body.

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.

I’m a golfer, and what are the two sports you can do till you drop? Golf and surfing. They’re great for you limber-wise, they’re great for you health-wise, and they put you in sweet locations.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.

Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

Laughter 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.

I eat next to nothing.

Many churches today have special programs for people who are grieving, and these can be very helpful.

Let me ask you a question: If you never ate a balanced diet, what would happen to your body? You know the answer: Eventually you’d grow weak; you might even open yourself to serious illness or disease. We all need a balanced diet if we are to stay healthy.

Irrespective of age, we mourn for those loved and lost. Mourning is one of the deepest expressions of pure love.

The dieting wars have got to stop.

Meditation 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.

Many 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.

I’m interested in women’s health because I’m a woman. I’d be a darn fool not to be on my own side.