Quotes About Healing

I remember being a kid and praying in the hell of my house to have somebody love me and somebody that I could love.

My self healing lies in praying for those who have harmed me.

I was praying one day and God literally gave me a song called 'Healing Hand of God.'

I wrote in my first book that I was broken, and now it just makes me mad every time. This is why writing words in books is so precarious. This is why Jesus only wrote in the sand, right? I just - I hate that I wrote that.

I believe that literature always goes precisely there where the damage to a person has been done.

And journaling became the place that I was able to find a sense of narrative control at a time when I had to cede so much control to others. It really - it became the place where I began to interrogate my predicament and to try to excavate some meaning from it.

We didn't lose as many lives as had been predicted although we're still in the process of finding those we lost.

Metro police can't infuse hope into those for whom hope is foreign. The algorithm does not exist that can heal the traumatized. Data-driven predictions won't result in the delivery of mental health services.

I had to accept that I was an alcoholic, that was the main thing. I think you've got to. But I try not say that I'm an alcoholic. I prefer to say that it's a disease I've got.

I am particularly interested in helping to heal women who have a fistula after their pregnancies.

I lost my second pregnancy.

She lost a couple of pregnancies before me. It was sort of this great healing for her to finally have a child.

When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor.

Nobody can prepare you for the loss of a parent.

People say a lot of hurtful things, but in a way, the abuse that I endured from my husband prepared me for that. The things I had been told and drilled into my head from him were worse than what anybody could say to me.

I believe in prescription drugs. I believe in feeling better.

Since my illness, I've felt the presence of my angels.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

If I was to pretend my father didn't exist and I didn't have anything to remember him by, then it wouldn't be healthy.

I only write when I'm in a dark place. I hit 'record' and get it out, writing and playing my guitar at the same time.

Talking about darker stuff from my life was definitely very cathartic and at times confronting.

I went through child abuse, and I also went through abuse with dating a couple of boyfriends in high school. I also have gone through a divorce.

Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.

Everyone deals with loss. I'm no different, but we all find our ways of coming through things. Is it tough? Of course, but you find the strength to push on through.