Quotes About Healing

I know of no restorative of heart, body, and soul more effective against hopelessness than the restoration of the Earth.

Pain can only feed on pain. Pain cannot feed on joy. It finds it quite indigestible.

The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

Often the Lord heals vainglory by dishonor.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you're perfectly free.

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

More courage is required to forgive than is required to take up arms.

When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time.

The noblest revenge is to forgive

If it suddenly became impossible for us to cover up all the junk we normally hide from the rest of humanity, I have a feeling we would all get real motivated to deal with the source of what ails us.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul.

It is a great thing to be a really good forgiver.

Believe that there is a purpose in your pain.

One of the easiest human acts is also the most healing. Listening to someone. Simply listening. Not advising or coaching, but silently and fully listening.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

You have to learn how to turn the tables on the ego. The only way to forgive what is within is to forgive what seems to be without.

The purpose of therapy is not to remove suffering but to move through it to an enlarged consciousness that can sustain the polarity of painful opposites.

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.

She (Eleanor Roosevelt) got even in a way that was almost cruel. She forgave them.