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Quotes About Healing

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
~ Marcel Proust
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to kindness and wisdom we make promises only; pain we obey.
~ Marcel Proust
Death is in truth an illness from which we recover
~ Marcel Proust
première et légère esquisse du chagrin que cause une séparation et des progrès irréguliers de l'oubli
~ Marcel Proust
It is strange how a first love, by the lesions it leaves on our heart, may open the way for later loves, but yet fail to offer us, in the identical character of our symptoms and sufferings, the means of curing them.
~ Marcel Proust
Wir werden von einem Leiden nur geheilt, indem wir es bis zum Letzten auskosten.
~ Marcel Proust
Nature hardly seems capable of giving us any but quite short illnesses. But medicine has annexed to itself the art of prolonging them.
~ Marcel Proust
Trauma occurs when something happens that's too horrible for your brain to deal with, so you just store it away. Over time, the horrible thing, which is still there, starts coming out in a variety of ugly ways, causing mental problems that you don't even associate with the trauma because it happened so long ago.
~ John Moe
there is nothing more intoxicating for a depressed person with an alcoholic parent in his past than being told you are loved and wanted.
~ John Moe
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike.
~ John Muir
Even the sick should try these so-called dangerous passes, because for every unfortunate they kill, they cure a thousand.
~ John Muir
feeling sure that I would learn something and at the same time get rid of a severe bronchial cough that followed an attack of the grippe and had troubled me for three months. I intended to camp on the glacier every night, and did so, and my throat grew better every day until it was well, for no lowland microbe could stand such a trip.
~ John Muir
when we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down and raised again, have given up all hope--and been suddenly snatched from danger, and placed in safety; and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of God, beyond and against appearances[....]
~ John Newton
We were sent into the world alive with beauty. As soon as we choose Beauty, unseen forces conspire to guide and encourage us towards unexpected forms of compassion, healing and creativity.
~ John O'Donohue
We ask that streams of Easter light might flow into the intimacy and privacy of our hearts this morning, to heal us and encourage us and enable us to make again a new beginning.
~ John O'Donohue
May we all receive blessing upon blessing. And may we realize our power to bless, heal, and renew one another.
~ John O'Donohue
Our grounding in the soul means that regardless of how badly we think of ourselves, there is a wholesomeness in us that no one has ever been able to damage.
~ John O'Donohue
do not damage yourselves By attending only at the hungry altar Of regret and anger and guilt.
~ John O'Donohue
The mind of blessing is wise, and it knows that whatever torments or diminishes a person cannot be healed simply from within that diminishment; consequently it addresses the wholeness and draws that light and healing into the diminished area.
~ John O'Donohue
In the light and reverence of blessing, a person or situation becomes illuminated in a completely new way. In a dead wall a new window opens, in dense darkness a path starts to glimmer, and into a broken heart healing falls like morning dew. It
~ John O'Donohue
The first stage of forgiveness is the decision not to try to inflict a reciprocal amount of pain on everyone who has caused hurt. When I forgive you, I give up the right to hurt you back.
~ John Ortberg Jr.
Please, God, just let the pain go away.
~ John Ringo
And thus the... valley became a garden again, and the inheritance, which had been lost by cruelty, was regained by love.
~ John Ruskin