A 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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.

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

It’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.

To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

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.

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

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.

My husband calls me ‚catfish.‘ He says I’m all mouth and no brains.

Grief is the price we pay for love.

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.

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

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.

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

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

I let the American people down.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

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.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

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.

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

Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon, which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals.

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.

If you’re working for a good company and you’re happy there, and you’re being compensated accordingly, and your work satisfies you, you should stay there.

Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body’s natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

When BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.

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.

History 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.

Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body.

Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.

This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

It’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.

People have so much going on in their heads. I’m like, If you could write a song, you’d feel so much better!

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.

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.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

I 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.

Forgotten is forgiven.

It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one’s heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize.

Frazier is so ugly that he should donate his face to the U.S. Bureau of Wild Life.

I 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.

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.

Cry if you have a compound fracture, by all means. Or if your grandpa died. But otherwise, save it for your pillow.

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

Joe Frazier is so ugly that when he cries, the tears turn around and go down the back of his head.

Reversing your treatment of the man you have wronged is better than asking his forgiveness.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

I 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.

One 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.