Quotes About Healing

I would say I see myself as a psychiatrist in remission.

I'm in complete remission. I'm alive and well.

There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There's a renewal that happens, but it's a very difficult one.

Music makes us want to live. You don't know how many times people have told me that they'd been down and depressed and just wanted to die. But then a special song caught their ear and that helped give them renewed strength. That's the power music has.

I was broken beyond repair.

There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well - that's anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.

I lived, while 1 1/2 million Jewish children died. So I have an obligation to repair the world.

Every time I break up with a guy, I play 'Kerosene' in my car on repeat.

One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

I lost my father and went into a process of grief with it that was all about how to replace that grief, how to fill it, and I think there was something very desperate in the way that I was replacing it.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

I have a, you know, a John Ritter-shaped hole in my heart. Nobody can replace that.

Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.

What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

One of the greatest lessons of my own life was learning to turn the inner rampage of hatred and anger toward my own father for his reprehensible behavior and abandonment of his family into an inner reaction more closely aligned with God and God-realized love.

There are almost as many definitions of co-dependency as there are experiences that represent it.

Yes, doing a work, telling a story very much represents a way to save my own life, and on so many levels.

The piano represents home to me. It represents a place where I can heal - the sound of it, the feel of it, the way it looks.

It is possible to resolve childhood repression safely and without confusion - something that has always been disputed by the most respected schools of thought.

A repressed person overcoming their repression always makes good music.

In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, hundreds of thousands have been left homeless, displaced, and broken.

If you don't deal with your demons, they will deal with you, and it's gonna hurt.

If you think about the people trying to hurt you, rather than just trying to hurt them back, you can understand it has nothing to do with you.

I've been hurt quite a few times.