Healing Quotes

When people told me I was so strong for surviving my daughter’s death, I wanted to scream. But the truth is that deep inside we are far more resilient, brave, and incredibly strong for having survived at all. So scream, be brave, and embrace your power. It will become your biggest asset.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

When we write with power and authenticity, it opens the door to our hearts and invites others in. When we're brave, we make others brave. Brave is good.

Lynda Cheldelin Fell

When we let go of our pride, we give ourselves permission to be human. We give ourselves permission to slip up and hurt and to grow without ridiculous standards of perfection constantly looming over our heads. We give ourselves a chance to face conflicts, to face ourselves, and to heal. And, in this healing process, we give others a chance to follow our lead.

Liz Newman

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

Laurie Matthew

God's breath is like a fresh wind that renews us. Frail and weak as we are,we have hope. We find healing.

Jocelyn Soriano

To love is to risk, and to risk is to lose sometimes, to get hurt. But let it not deter you from loving again, from being happy.

Jocelyn Soriano

What you feel, you can heal.

John Gray

Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

Michele Rosenthal

Think about the stigma that is attached to the idea that alcoholism is a disease, an incurable illness, and you have it. That's a terrible thing to inflict on someone. Labeling alcoholism as a disease, a cause unto itself, simply no longer fits with what we know today about its causes.

Chris Prentiss

Never allow yourself to become a choice in any relationship. The moment you do is when you have reduced your loved one's affections to a daily biological question: Should I take a dump here or wait till I get home?

Shannon L. Alder

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a good deal especially in mind. Further, on this subject, I did not consider it advisable to dwell, for the details of what I had undergone belonged to a portion of my existence in which I never expected my godmother to take a share. Into what a new region would such a confidence have led that hale, serene nature! The difference between her and me might be figured by that between the stately ship cruising safe on smooth seas, with its full complement of crew, a captain gay and brave, and venturous and provident; and the life-boat, which most days of the year lies dry and solitary in an old, dark boat-house, only putting to sea when the billows run high in rough weather, when cloud encounters water, when danger and death divide between them the rule of the great deep. No, the "Louisa Bretton" never was out of harbour on such a night, and in such a scene: her crew could not conceive it; so the half-drowned life-boat man keeps his own counsel, and spins no yarns.

Charlotte Brontë

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

Yann Martel

When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering," a deep healing begins.

Tara Brach

The blessing of resistance lies in its power to illuminate those aspects of ourselves which have eluded our appreciation.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To “prove” I wasn’t a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm’s way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.

Christina Enevoldsen

She is no longer a solitary being. She is a million different parts, each reborn, granted the miracle she prayed for in the months before her death, to be completely healed. Death is the price for rebirth.Death. Who would have thought it would come with such great joy? Yet, after long years battling illness, death is suddenly more than welcome.

Victoria Kahler

The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey to anguish that few of us are released from making.

Lillian Smith

After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

Mary Oliver

I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.

Marta Mrotek

They say we live in hard times. They say the world is full of suffering and pain and ignorance and violence. But is that not better than helpless, grinned and beared mediocrity? Is this not the time of opportunity? When will we learn the importance of peace, if not in war? When will we learn the importance of loving ourselves except through self-hatred? How else will we come together except to realize how we hurt when we are apart? The world is not full of horror. It is full of opportunity. It is not lacking in love. It is hungry for it. So eat. So feed.

Vironika Tugaleva

I know you're in a world of pain, but that pain will lessen. At the beginning you can't see that. You can only see your pain and you think it will never go away.But the nature of pain is that it changes— it changes like a sunset. At first, it's this intense red-orange in the sky, and then it starts getting softer and soften. The texture of pain changes as you work through it. And then one day, you wake up and realize that life isn't just about working through your incest; it's about living, too.- survivor of child sexual abuse

Ellen Bass

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

Jalaluddin Rumi

We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

Marcel Proust

Are we always our mistakes? Does anything we do heal them?

Alexandra Duncan

Today changes yesterday, and all the days to come. Today changes everything! The attitudes we carry in the present will change the way we view yesterday, and help us cope and make peace with all the moments behind us. It will also carry us forward in a brighter direction. The present moment is the most important, because it is what is happening right now.

Jenna Alatari

All acts of healing are ultimately our selves healing our Self. -Ram Dass

Ram Dass

When we can return to the roads of our past and see nothing but the beautiful view, then we've truly moved on.

Nanette Mathews

It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.

Dave Pelzer

I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors’ offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.

Anna White

I don't know why, but people seem to be fascinated to learn how some members of society fall through the cracks. I think it's partly that feeling that... it could happen to anyone. But I think it also makes people feel better about their own lives. It makes them think, 'Well, I may think my life is bad, but it could be worse, I could be that poor sod.

James Bowen

When we stop looking for someone to complete us... We find completion in ourselves.

Vironika Tugaleva

Where there is life, there is a hope.

Lailah Gifty Akita

I have only been a ‘Poor Me’ once or twice in my life…. And that was my own fault.

Gary Hopkins

You've been criticising yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Louise L. Hay

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.

Viktor E. Frankl

If you're not grateful for what you already have, why should you be blessed with more...

Germany Kent

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

Marianne Williamson

Frankl asserts that "the potentialities of life are not indifferent possibilities, but must be seen in the light of meaning and values." Such meaning and values cannot be imposed; each individual must seek out for himself or herself the meaning of each situation and the implications the present moment may have for the future.

William Blair Gould

There is nothing we could add to that which has already been created....perfection.

Vivian Amis

Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.

Colleen Chen

Time alone can help us to look inward, to fish for things that others can’t see.

Fennel Hudson

The intimacy that arises in listening and speaking truth is only possible if we can open to the vulnerability of our own hearts. Breathing in, contacting the life that is right here, is our first step. Once we have held ourselves with kindness, we can touch others in a vital and healing way.

Tara Brach

Rare is the man who seeks not only to heal himself but to heal his fellow man.

José N Harris

To be a better person, spend less time filling out your personal scorecard and more time being kind . . . to you.

Philip Chard

I believe the vital ingredient is love—a state of caring and compassion that is so deep and genuine that the barriers we erect around the self are transcended.

Larry Dossey

It doesn't matter how you conceive of divinity. It only matters that you see it in everything, including yourself.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Forgiveness that is insincere, forced or premature can be more psychologically damaging than authentic bitterness & rage.

Sharon Salzberg

Though your acts of love and compassion cannot penetrate bandages or armour, they are never wasted and never lost. They sit within the recipient’s mind, awaiting his awakening.

Vironika Tugaleva

We have come to a point in time where using common sense, speaking factual truths and asking honest questions have been deemed radical behavior. While in turn, manipulation, thoughtlessness and dishonesty is often rewarded and rules the day.

Gary Hopkins

Go out and heal the sick, raise the dead, cast out demons and preach the kingdom. But do it for only one reason. Your motive should be an overwhelming love and compassion for those in need. There is no other legitimate motive for healing.

Praying Medic

All work done with love is healing work.

Eric Micha'el Leventhal

When we can see our own self, angry and hurting others, within every villain, then we can love. When we can see our own desperate struggle for belonging in the eyes of every enemy, then we can love. When we can look at the greatest of atrocities and see the opportunity for healing within, then, and only then, can we really love.

Vironika Tugaleva

Love is that which gives of itself.

Vivian Amis

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

Aberjhani

He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirituality, and that true spirituality always included service to others. As he explained many times, the essence of a good physician consisted of a capacity for compassion and a sense of the ethical, without which qualities the sacred art of healing degenerated into simple charlatanism.

Isabel Allende

They say compassion is the only voice; a gift which can help mend the broken, lift the fallen and soften the hardened.

Aisha Mirza

Despite your best efforts, not everyone wants to be helped. Make a difference where you can and be at peace with the rest.

Gary Hopkins

When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.

Vironika Tugaleva

I wanted, for so long, for someone to understand me better than I understood myself, to take control of me, to save me, to make it all better. I thought that the hardest part of a loving, mutually healing relationship would be showing my vulnerable, raw spots to a person, even though I'd been hurt so many times before. This has not been the hardest part. The actual hardest part has been realizing that no one, no matter how compassionate and kind they are, will say the perfect things always. Myself included. The hardest part has been learning to communicate what I need, to hear what others need, to tell others how to tell me what they need. Intimacy takes a lot of communication. We all have triggers. I don't know your triggers and you don't know mine. No matter how much I love or trust you, you cannot possibly know exactly the words I need to hear, the words I don't want to hear, and the way I like to be touched. And how strange that we expect these things of each other. How strange, and self-sabotaging, that we refuse to get into relationships and friendships with people unless they treat us in just that perfect way. We've been raised to want fairy tales. We've been raised to wait for flawless saviors to rescue us. But the savior isn't flawless and the savior is not coming. The savior is you. The savior is still learning. The savior is never done learning. The savior is a human being. Forget perfect. Forget flawless. And start speaking your truth. Start speaking what you want and how you want it. And start asking and listening, really listening, to what the people around you say. Maybe, then, we will stop abandoning and hurting each other. Maybe, then, there's hope for us.

Vironika Tugaleva

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