Quotes About Healing

If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs.

One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting.

Music has always been a big part of my life. It's kind of like a refuge for me. I just use it to get away.

Grief had its own life, took its own sustenance.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

Music has always gotten me through life, particularly honest, real music.

There's never been a doctor who served many patients who, despite their best efforts, did not lose some of them to death. But they understood that was part of life itself.

IT happened. There is no avoiding it, no forgetting. No running away, or flying, or burying, or hiding.

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

Being able to communicate with a loved one that you haven't talked to in a while because of some communication break makes their life and your life in a much better place.

He'd lived long enough to know that everyone handled grief in different ways, and little by little, they all seemed to accept their new lives.

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

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

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

[I] don't think I was trying to kill myself. I just wanted to hurt, and understand exactly whay I was hurting. This made sense: you cut, you felt pain, period.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.

The person may have a scar, but it also means they have a story

Some things can be fixed. Some things are just too broken.

You can stay in therapy your whole life, but you've got to live life and not talk about life.

It makes it hard to get over a certain period of your life when you are constantly revisiting it every night.

While it may not be a simple act, offering forgiveness not only has the power to heal relationships, it strengthens the well-being of those who give this life-changing gift.

Paintings helped to change my life. I'd still be living a life of disaster without it.