Quotes About Healing

To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.

If people would get in touch with their spirits, they would be able to heal, emotionally and physically.

If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul.

And I'm also looking for a comeback record and it has to touch a lot of people.

I would say that playing this character has caused me to think about a lot of things. He's always questioning himself and trying to get back to something he lost touch with and trying to find forgiveness. Everybody struggles with these things to some extent in their life.

The reality is that we communicate with every part of our being, and there are times when we must use it all. When someone needs us, he or she needs all of us. There's no text that can replace a loving touch when someone we love is hurting.

I want to touch people with the music and help them through whatever they're going through. That's what music's there for - making people happy.

Everything I've written has been personal and touched on things that I needed to deal with in my personal life. So I just feel that writing is great therapy, and the best writing comes from truth, and so I mine my life constantly for that.

A quick example of that is a woman who said she'd been healed of throat cancer where the faith healer admitted he touched her on the forehead.

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

After the loss of my sister - my darkest time - I tried to think of the beauty she'd brought to this world and the lives she had touched and the love she had left behind.

Quite simply, if you're feeling anxious, angry, a sense of shame, whatever it is, breathe in and agree to touch or feel it. Breathing out, offer space and care to whatever's there. If there's blocking to touching it, emphasize the in-breath and stay embodied.

If you have injuries, it's tough.

Losing someone you love is tough.

Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.

It's bloody tough, bloody painful, trying to get sober on your own.

Any book that you're writing about your life, there are tough chapters that you've gotten through, you've survived them, and kind of closed them up.

To hear people saying, 'The music you are doing has really touched my life and it's moved me in a lot of ways. It's helped me get through some tough times.' That's the best compliment that you could get.

I saw tough times, and there were many nights when I would just cry out aloud.

It's extraordinary to hear from people who are bereaved, or gone through a divorce, and they still take the time to tell me how a certain track or album helped them through tough times, or kept them sane.

No matter what kind of tough times you're going through, if you can get a night out with friends and really just lose yourself in the music, that's just straight-up good for you, you know?

It makes you tougher. And when you lose a child, no one can say anything that is ever going to impact you.

I had reconstructive pectoral surgery, I had a cervical neck fusion and a scope, and the scope was the toughest.

Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk.