Quotes About Healing

Survival, though, means more than going on. It means understanding the past and finding a way to subdue it, to reconcile it, to overcome it.

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself; for every man has need to be forgiven.

The poet would befriend and comfort himself, if only he could.

We have in America "The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking your wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversation, a rest, whatever. And as is in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. But this isn't Michigan (or Faulkner's Big Woods in Mississippi for that matter). This is Alaska.

They do horrible, unchildish things because they they have had very horrible, unchildish lives.

As you know so well, the passage of time never really heals the tragic memory of such a great loss, but we carry on, because we have to, because our loved one would want us to, and because there is still light to guide us in the world from the love they gave us.

Connection, positive connection, which at its most distilled is called love, has incredible healing power.

When we forgive, the slave we free is ourselves.

Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.

Forgiveness is not turning the other cheek. Forgiveness is not running away. Forgiveness does not mean that you condone what the person has done, nor does it mean that you invite them to do it again. It doesn't mean that you forget the offense, nor does it mean that by forgiving you tacitly invite bad things to happen again. It doesn't mean that you won't defend yourself.

I have a great faith in the arts, in their power to diminish suffering

Small wounds are healed by time, but time can only bandage great wounds, which continue to bleed in secret.

But where good is promoted and evil is fought against for the healing of humanity, this historical praxis in fact confirms the nature of God- God as salvation for men and women, the basis of universal hope - and people moreover receive God's salvation: in and through a love which is put into practice.

Return refers not just to bringing troops out of harm's way but to complete homecoming for the whole person in body, mind, heart, and soul

The way to freedom is not with force but with love. Do not fight the world. Do not battle it. Forgive it. Then move towards the freedom that can only be found in God

No one will love you more than you love your pain.

Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.

For the mind disturbed, the still beauty of dawn is nature's finest balm.

Just saying; Sorry, cannot compensate, and heal all the griefs and pains that one bore with its tears.

Patience is your greatest-power of a natural source. It strengthens and purifies your heart and mind. It also cures your spiritual wounds and sorrows that, caused by the world.

Psychologically, crying relieves and softens the burden of grief and pain of sorrow; whereas, spiritually, it cleans the sins and mistakes and purifies the conscience and soul.

Silence heals grief and pain of the soul caused by bitter and ugly attitudes.

Smiling is free healing power, for oneself and others.

Surely, tears are incredible and best therapy and remedy for sorrow, grief, and pain that, attack and occupy one's life.