Quotes About Healing

Jimi Hendrix often spoke about being a messenger. His hope was that his music might somehow pierce our hearts and heal our souls. He finally did go so far out that he couldn't find his way back in, but he did us all a huge favor—he left his music with us.

A cynic is just a wounded romantic.

Tiger, Tiger, by Margaux Fragoso.

And so I discovered that it is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but on His.

the death of someone close to them. The girls I see show the same signs of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder as the soldiers coming back from Iraq and

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

You can't hold on, Zoe. Not to hate. Not even to love. You kill things that way. There's only one freedom. Forgiveness. And sometimes the hardest thing to do is to forgive yourself.

There's nothing that the God I serve can't fix, even a broken spirit.

A Bipolar Psychology cure for, to Bipolar.

Fasting is the greatest remedy, the physician within.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

The people who hurt you don't get the last word. You get to tell the story of you, and your story has more power than you can imagine.

Trauma often robs a person of the surrounding memories—which is inconvenient, but merciful

Secrets are corrosive. Secrets destroy anything you try to layer over them. It's like using concealer to cover a black eye. You can hide it, but that's not the same as healing.

There are times when the heart, like the canary in the coal mine, breathes in the world's toxicity and begins to die.

Violence is what we get when we do not know what else to do with our suffering.

I have been astonished to see how nature uses devastation to stimulate new growth, slowly but persistently healing her own wounds.

When the heart is supple, it can be "broken open" into a greater capacity to hold our own and the world's pain: it happens every day. When we hold our suffering in a way that opens us to greater compassion, heartbreak becomes a source of healing, deepening our empathy for others who suffer and extending our ability to reach out to them.

One of the most painful discoveries I made in the midst of the dark woods of depression was that a part of me wanted to stay depressed. As long as I clung to this living death, life became easier; little was expected of me, certainly not serving others.

If you hold your knowledge of self and world wholeheartedly, your heart will at times get broken by loss, failure, defeat, betrayal, or death. What happens next in you and the world around you depends on how your heart breaks. If it breaks apart into a thousand pieces, the result may be anger, depression, and disengagement. If it breaks open into greater capacity to hold the complexities and contradictions of human experience, the result may be new life.

Por qué la música es capaz de ir al fondo del dolor? Porque es allí donde ella mora.

Paul, ¿te acuerdas de que cuando estabas tan mal, antes de que comenzases el psicoanálisis, decías que quienes no plantan cara a su dolor se condenan a padecerlo sin fin?

Tout cela fera mal, mais plus tard seulement.

Grief's only ever as deep as the love it's replaced.