Quotes About Healing

People have responded to my stories so well. They come up after a show and say things like, 'Your album really helped me,' or 'I have stage four cancer. I'm terminally ill.' Somebody told me it gave them the courage to die.

Until I was seven, I was very close to my mother because I was so ill and she had to teach me how to walk and talk. But then she had another child, a little girl called Fleur, who died. When she came home from hospital there was a bit of a distance between us. It was never talked about again.

If I ever feel like I need to see someone to help me adjust to whatever life situation I'm seeing, I'll go. You're sick. When you're physically ill, you go to the doctor. It's the same thing about your mental. If you feel you're starting to get sick, you go see someone who can help you.

I was really ill growing up as my body was rejecting everything.

Music makes illness retreat.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

I eat the way I do because I really enjoy it but also because it's the only thing I've found that helps me manage the illness I had, and that plays a big part in it.

Humor is an antidote to all ills.

Half the ills we heard within our hearts are ills because we hoard them.

To feel our ills is one thing, but to cure them is another.

Spirit is impervious to illness.

The more pain that's referenced or implied, the deeper the laugh can be because the laughter heals the pain. So you've got to have the pain, and then you have the laugh.

To say that I'm healed, uh, would be to imply that there's an endpoint. And I think healing is something that we all do, that we'll all continually do, for the rest of our lives.

I'm awfully tired of playing grieving people, which seems to have been my bent in the last five years. But it's an important part of my life and if I can express it in any way, I will - including doing seminars.

My health is very much improved.

There's a general impulse to distract the grieving person - as if you could.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't angry some days. But I really have worked hard to put a lot of the anger and disappointment in the past.

I don't want to make a cheap analysis, but when you have, like I did, a father incapable of showing emotion, who spends his life telling you that no one will love you if you aren't perfect, it leaves scars.

In 2010 I had to learn to walk again when I had my legs made the same length, after living with one leg two inches longer than the other until the age of 51.

Getting past my past... was a process, a very serious process indeed.

I went to Kerala in India, to learn Ayurveda, which was fantastic.

Quand tout change pour toi la Nature est la même Et le même soleil se lève sur tes jours. Ami Vous êtes mort pour mon amour Et je meurs, ami, de tendresse Car je n'ai pu venir à temps Ni n'ai pu forcer le destin Pour vous guérir de votre mal. Si je fusse à temps venue La vie je vous eusse rendue Et parlez doucement à vous, De l'amour qui fut entre nous.

The artist, depicting man disdainful of the storm and stress of life, is no less reconciling and healing than the poet who, while endowing Nature and Humanity, rejoices in its measureless superiority to human passions and human sorrows.

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.