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Quotes About Healing

Food, like a loving touch or a glimpse of divine power, has that ability to comfort.
~ Unknown
Unless we are willing to escape into sentimentality or fantasy, often the best we can do with catastrophes, even our own, is to find out exactly what happened and restore some of the missing parts.
~ Norman Maclean
Harsh words live in the dungeon of the heart
~ Norman Mailer
The history of our country is cruel. We have to face those issues or, should I say, we had to. Not anymore I hope, because we are going in the right direction, and we are ready to forgive, ready to move on.
~ Novak Djokovic
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
~ Novalis
Toda enfermedad puede llamarse enfermedad del alma.
~ Novalis
Eventually I got some unicorn posters, and all was healed. Or maybe not all, because I still feel a prickle of almost religious ecstasy at the smell of horseshit.
~ Novella Carpenter
One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy–whether he knows it or not.
~ Unknown
You can learn to follow the inner self, the inner physician that tells you where to go. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.
~ O. Carl Simonton
in an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: "I couldn't really let her come all the way back. I couldn't let her return to what she was, I couldn't let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn't leave people quite whole."1 Time
~ Octavia E. Butler
I couldn't let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn't leave people quite whole.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Sometimes writing about a thing makes it easier to stand.
~ Octavia E. Butler
We're survivors, Len. You are. I am. Most of Georgetown is. All of Acorn was. We've been slammed around in all kinds of ways. We're all wounded. We're healing as best we can. And, no, we're not normal. Normal people wouldn't have survived what we've survived. If we were normal we'd be dead.
~ Octavia E. Butler
They do seem to be adopting each other, though," I said. "And taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares like yours and maybe hers." "You sound as though you know." I nodded. "I live in this world, too.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I couldn't really let her come all the way back. I couldn't let her return to what she was, I couldn't let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn't leave people quite whole.
~ Octavia E. Butler
In an interview Butler has stated that the meaning of the amputation is clear enough: "I couldn't really let her come all the way back. I couldn't let her return to what she was, I couldn't let her come back whole and that, I think, really symbolizes her not coming back whole. Antebellum slavery didn't leave people quite whole.
~ Octavia E. Butler
How stupid to be sick and know where there was healing and decide to stay sick.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Taking care of other people can be a good cure for nightmares like yours and maybe hers.
~ Octavia E. Butler
breaking people is much easier than putting them together again.
~ Octavia E. Butler
I'm getting better, but so slowly.
~ Octavia E. Butler
Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat... Never take yourself too seriously.
~ Og Mandino
Bvalltu, for such approximately was the philosopher's name, the "11" being pronounced more or less as in 27 Welsh, Bvalltu effected a "cure" by merely inviting
~ Olaf Stapledon
It is much harder to forgive yourself than it is to forgive others. You will not master the act of forgiveness until you start with yourself.
~ Unknown
Tragedy plus time isn't comedy,
~ Unknown