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.

An injured friend is the bitterest of foes.

Grief changes shape, but it never ends.

Without forgiveness, there’s no future.

Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.

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

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

I believe time wounds all heels.

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

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

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

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.

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

The soul is healed by being with children.

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.

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

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

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.

I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.

I don’t like begging money from producers.

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.

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

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.

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 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.‘

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

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

Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

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.

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

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.

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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.