Quotes About Healing

Whoever touches the body of a patient, touches the body of Christ.

When toilsome contests have been decided, good cheer is the best physician, and songs, the sage daughters of the Muses, soothe with their touch.

Families are also about offering endless possibilities for pain.

The cure of the part should not be attempted without the cure of the whole.

No physician, insofar as he is a physician, considers his own good in what he prescribes, but the good of his patient; for the true physician is also a ruler having the human body as a subject, and is not a mere moneymaker.

I shall continue to be anxious about him until he can permit himself some distraction and allow his wound to heal; nothing can do this but acceptance of the inevitable, lapse of time, and surfeit of grief.

When a man's eyes are sore his friends do not let him finger them, however much he wishes to, nor do they themselves touch the inflammation: But a man sunk in grief suffers every chance comer to stir and augment his affliction like a running sore; and by reason of the fingering and consequent irritation it hardens into a serious and intractable evil.

From our deepest wounds come our greatest gifts.

God's forgiven me. My wife's forgiven me. The department's forgiven me."

People can be hurt so badly that they choose to just stop in their tracks.

You hold onto what you have; you do not give it up easily, even when you know it is poisoning you.

I have been through so much, I wanted to say, but the words were tangled in my throat.

As hard as my life has been I have no desire for revenge. If I wish for anything it is for all the things that have been stolen from my life to be returned to me.

Tugas dokter Pribumi bukan saja menyembuhkan tubuh terluka dan menanggung sakit, juga jiwanya, juga hari depannya. Siapa akan melakukannya kalau bukan para terpelajar? Dan bukankah satu ciri manusia modern adalah juga kemenangan individu atas lingkungannya dengan prestasi individual? Individu-individu kuat sepatutnya bergabung, mengangkat sebangsanya yang lemah, memberinya lampu pada kegelapan dan memberi mata yang buta.

To learn to forget is as necessary and useful as to learn to remember. We think of many things every day which it would be more profitable not to think of at all. To be able to forget is to be able to drive away the unseen force (thought) which is injuring us, and change it for a force (or order of thought) to benefit us.

Nous ne pouvons pas construire un #Burundi solide et solidaire sans nous pencher collectivement sur nos blessures respectives

On ne peut pas arrêter l'aspiration pacifique et patiente d'un peuple qui souhaite répondre aux questions criantes d'un passé douloureux.

The knife in the hand of a murderer kills, but if you give it to a doctor he will heal with it.

Music is healing...(M)usic holds things together.

Forgiveness means ascent.

A dose of adversity is often as needful as a dose of medicine.

All things grow with time - except grief.

Nature is better than a middling doctor.

Medicine cures the man who is fated not to die.