Quotes About Healing

When 'Ishaqzaade' released, I was going through hell. It didn't matter what I said or did, because I had lost my mother.

When I was released from prison, I didn't want to leave my house for the first three months.

Going to AA helped me to see that there were other people who had problems that had found a way to talk about them and find relief and humor through that.

Usually, I use writing as a way to figure out things about me, and I get scared pretty easily about everything. I deal with a lot of depression, so I usually use it as way to find some relief from that.

Being able to express myself gave me a sense of relief.

When we have emotional pain in our lives, we are going to seek to relieve that pain in some way.

I don't care if you are religious or not and I think the message is that at the end of the day, everybody has to mature and everybody has to heal and mend their own injuries, emotional injuries, on their own pace.

Fortunately, most religious people accept medicine as a gift from God and reap the benefits of both realms.

Although we are physically laid to rest, we meet again and again to make amends. If I hurt someone in this life, I'll have to relive it to make amends. It helps you realize that by hurting someone, you are actually hurting yourself.

I am one of the 11.5% of New Yorkers who remain traumatized by the events of September 11.

When I jerked it out the head remained in my leg, where it remains still. There were a couple of inches of blood on the shaft of the arrow when I pulled it out.

As someone who has lived the nightmare of losing a child, I know that the enormous hole left behind remains forever.

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

I think acupuncture, reflexology, Reiki, and Shiatsu massage are remarkable, and I used them for years to help with injuries and as a preventative measure.

But disco is the remedy for ghosts.

I feel like the 'Greatest Hits' is a homegrown remedy for love.

Often the remedy is deemed the highest good because it helps so many.

Often, I write to feel better and to heal - to cope with things that I'm dealing with. I'm either writing to get out of a feeling or to get into the feeling, to feel it more. Usually it's the perfect remedy, but if it isn't, I focus on other parts of what I'm making that don't involve writing. If neither are working, I simply forfeit the day.

There is no evil in the world without a remedy.

You have to remember, when someone hurts you, that you are so much more than what they took from you.

Scars remind you of difficult places in your life that you've championed.

It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I'm human, and I'm filled with opposites, and I'm built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.

If the death of Osama Bin Laden brings any peace to those who lost loved ones on that awful day in September 2001, that is a great thing. It is more likely, however, just a painful reminder of what was lost.

I love my scars. It reminds me where I come from.