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.

Black people comprehend the South. We understand its weight. It has rested on our backs… I knew that my heart would break if ever I put my foot down on that soil, moist, still, with old hurts. I had to face the fear/loathing at its source or it would consume me whole.

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

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

Nothing 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.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

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

The man who does more than he is paid for will soon be paid for more than he does.

The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society.

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.

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

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.

You don’t get paid for the hour. You get paid for the value you bring to the hour.

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.

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

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.

To insult someone we call him ‚bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, ‚human‘ might be the greater insult.

I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else.

Forgotten is forgiven.

A 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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

I believe time wounds all heels.

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

A businessman is the only man who is forever apologizing for his occupation.

Bitterness is cancer – it eats upon the host. It doesn’t do anything to the object of its displeasure.

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.

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.

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

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

What 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.

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.

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

The soul is healed by being with children.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

I 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.

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.

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 am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal.

Changing 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.

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

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

At one time in my life, from the time I was seven until I was about 13, I didn’t speak. I only spoke to my brother. The reason I didn’t speak: I had been molested, and I told the name of the molester to my brother who told it to the family.

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

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

I let the American people down.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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.

It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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.

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

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.

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