Quotes About Healing

Fear is inky. Fear stains the white sheet of consciousness that one comes swaddled in and no amount of earthly scrubbing can make it completely clean again.

It's here in all the pieces of my shame that now I find myself again. From The Book of Hours II, 2

Writing has freed me from the despair of living.

That doctor of yours called it depression. Depression is a form of anger, or so I've read.' 'I'm not angry.' She looked at him wonderingly. 'Why on earth should I be angry?' 'Maybe you were angry without knowing it. Maybe anger is merely undigested experience.

How can you possibly be an agent of positive change in the world when you are full of bitterness and hatred?

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

Sometimes I think that if it were possible to tell a story often enough to make the hurt ease up, to make the words slide down my arms and away from me like water, I would tell that story a thousand times.

Among other things, Kathryn knew, grief was physically exhausting.

Daba Hua Tha Jo Mere Seene Mein........ Tujhko Dekha To Dard Ubhra ....... Kisi Bhi Marham Se Bhar Na Paya Teri Judai Ka Zakham Gahra........... Seene Mein Pyar Machalta Hai ... Aakhon Se Dard Chhalakta Hai .... Saahil Ki Tarah Kaatein Mujhko Chahat Ki Har Lahar...

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

She went around with a broken heart, and she wasn't sure who'd broken it. She thought it was herself, mostly.

Recovery isn't just about stopping drinking or giving up drugs; it's about taking responsibility. Not easy, if you've been running away from it all your life.

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.

A reasonably new theme in the western world, Indian culture has known how to heal the body through food for thousands of years.

'Whale Talk' is a tough book, but it is also a compassionate book about telling the truth and about redemption. I didn't draw the tough parts out of thin air; they are stories handed to me by people in pain.

I wanted to do something creatively, having been a beached whale for many months and nursing my daughter.

It's been a very strong force for me over the years. I don't know exactly why. For some people, fear can be a very useful thing. They can use it to recognise there's something missing, and heal themselves. But fear can also destroy some people. I think I'm the first type of person. I'm pretty anxious, always thinking 'what if?' about the bad stuff.

What if we strove for compassion, for mercy, for forgiveness? And what if we did this for everybody, including people who have harmed others?

Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.

Some people have therapy, some people are alcoholics or they're in AA. Some people jump out of planes on weekends or find ways to release this kind of thing. And for me, it's acting. I find acting very therapeutic for whatever it is.

My ideology was, if I just make very happy music, very happy music, then people will forget about whatever their problems are. I will forget about my problems.

Knowing about my body, different aspects of my body, it's been a big thing. It's really helped me as far as injury and whatnot, so I know exactly if something feels funny, I know what I'm capable of doing to help myself get back stronger and get back healthy.

I don't eat wheat and am into alternative medicines and treatment.