healing quotes

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence.

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

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

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.

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

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

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

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.

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.