Quotes About Healing

When we give and receive empathy, transformation occurs.

By letting go of misguided beliefs, love and compassion can break through.

Unrequited love is not fatal, it's just a temporary digestive disorder that leaves no visible marks, only a newly acquired but permanent inability to ever eat certain specific, unnecessary things again without having terrible digestive distress. Shrimp gives me gas, so I don't eat shrimp. I don't sit up nights crying about shrimp, right? All right then. Have two aspirin and a full glass of water, remember?

Stories have to repair the damage that illness has done to the ill person's sense of where she is in life, and where she may be going. Stories are a way of redrawing maps and finding new destinations.

I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land" (2 Chron. 7:14).

The truth is that she traveled back to Kashmir to still her troubled heart, and to atone for a crime she hadn't committed.

While the Doctor was searching for a more lasting cure, the Saint journeyed across India distributing a placebo.

A dor dela própria a entristecia. A dele a devastava.

When his bouts of violence began to include the

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

Those of us in medicine don't help, for we often regard the patient on the downhill as uninteresting unless he or she has a discrete problem we can fix.

Medicine was just another a tool you could try, no different from a healing ritual or a family remedy and no more effective.

anyone who really knows what it is like to cut a stomach cancer from a patient

but the redness became virtually unnoticeable.

waiting for the sick feeling to pass

The way we saw it, and the way our professors saw it, the purpose of medical schooling was to teach how to save lives, not how to tend to their demise.

What's more, Eleanor's fever had gone away;

Sometimes we can offer a cure, sometimes only a salve, sometimes not even that. But whatever we can offer, our interventions, and the risks and sacrifices they entail, are justified only if they serve the larger aims of a person's life. When we forget that, the suffering we inflict can be barbaric. When we remember it the good we do can be breathtaking.

he has the potential for a full return to practice.

There are no new pains.

When you reach out and touch other human beings, it doesn't matter whether you call it therapy or teaching or poetry.

We have been sad long enough to make this earth either weep or grow fertile.

But it is also true that sometimes we cannot heal ourselves close to the very people from whom we draw strength and light, because they are also closest to the places and tastes and smells that go along with a pattern of living we are trying to rearrange.

Emily, who loved her best friend so much she still cannot listen to the records they once enjoyed together, and it is five years already since her friend died.