Quotes About Healing

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

One of my favorite paintings I've done happened after I broke up with a boyfriend.

The scar on my forehead is from running through a plate-glass panel when I was 15. I had 27 stitches, which took two hours.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

It is as imperative to take care of our minds as is our bodies and hence seeking help for mental illness is of paramount importance.

I lost my dad when I was younger, and I know what it's like to lose a beloved parent.

People ask me, 'Is being a parent the be-all, end-all?' And I say, 'Oh, it definitely is up to the person, and it is difficult, it can be very difficult, and it can be extremely healing.' That's what I have found, that the children are mirrors. Everyone is a mirror, but children especially because they're day and night and all day long.

I'm certainly not a perfect mother, but I'm trying to be what my mother wasn't for me. My mother's battled depression, so I understand it now as a parent, some of the things that she must have been going through.

There's no easy time to lose a parent.

If you lose a parent, no matter at what age, every five or 10 years you have a different way of missing them and a different way of getting on with your life.

It is devastating, losing a parent. I don't really know what the effect is, but I suppose people might call me an ambitious man, and I'd say that an ambitious man is a damaged man.

I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.

My parents' divorce left me with a lot of sadness and pain and acting, and especially humour, was my way of dealing with all that.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

It's difficult to know what to say to someone whose partner has cheated on them.

Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.

I had a real bad attitude after my dad passed of liver cancer. I was 9, and we were really close.

What shaped me the most would probably be when my dad passed away. For the rest of my life, I'll kind of feel like he's gonna come home.

After Diana passed, I did not believe for one second that I would remarry or that I would be in love again.

My wife was an amazing, amazing person. Sophia's Heart is an organization that I founded in honor of my wife when she passed away. When she passed away it was a complete shock, and it was disappointment, anger. I felt all those emotions.

When my mother first passed away some time ago, I didn't enjoy food anymore. I just ate to live. My mother had always cooked so well that I didn't think I could follow her.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

My daughter passed away in 2003.