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

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

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

We can feel joy even while having a bad day, a bad week, or even a bad year!

If someone decides they’re not going to be happy, it’s not your problem. You don’t have to spend your time and energy trying to cheer up someone who has already decided to stay in a bad mood. Believe it or not, you can actually hurt people by playing into their self-pity.

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

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

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

Grief is the price we pay for love.

There is such a thing as old emotional pain living inside you. It is an accumulation of painful life experience that was not fully faced and accepted in the moment it arose. It leaves behind an energy form of emotional pain.

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

It would be my guess that Madonna is not a very happy woman. From my own experience, having gone through persona changes like that, that kind of clawing need to be the center of attention is not a pleasant place to be.

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.

Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit.

If it’s stress of things that we cannot control, what you have to do is you mitigate that stress as much as possible. You’ve planned, you’ve trained, you’ve done everything you can in your power to mitigate the stress that’s facing you. And then after that, there’s nothing you can do. So, you have to let that one go.

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.

I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.

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’m so happy I discovered early how wonderful music makes me feel.

The soul is healed by being with children.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.

I care about helping to address these problems of social cohesion and understanding what economic problems people think exist.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

‚Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after.

I am not a victim of emotional conflicts. I am human.

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.

I was born with a happy heart, and I try to keep a good attitude. It’s not true that I’m happy all the time because nobody is, and we all go through our things.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

Even the securest financial plan and the finest health coverage aren’t enough to hold us steady when the challenges come… We need something more, something deeper and unshakeable, something that will see us through life’s hard times.

There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.

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

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.

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’m tender on the inside.

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.

Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.

I wake up in the morning and my heart is light, man. It’s not heavy. I don’t have skeletons in the closet on their way out.

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.

Social Security is based on a principle. It’s based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across town, a disabled widow, is going to be able to have food to eat.

Catering to bad feelings feeds and empowers them.

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.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

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.

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

Whenever our neighbour’s house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

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.

Do not give in too much to feelings. A overly sensitive heart is an unhappy possession on this shaky earth.

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.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

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.

You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

When we’re looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

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.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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.

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

We should feel sorrow, but not sink under its oppression.

A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance.

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.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.