Quotes About Healing

Michael died five years ago this January, and the first thing that really struck me about the script was the part about her peeling off from the funeral and just getting into a rowboat and having a real kind of cry where nobody was.

I think massage is a very important part of life, which is present from centuries as an imminent part of India's tradition.

I used to always say teleportation for those times when you want to skip the commute, the traffic, the wait. Now, however, I think I'd really love the power to just heal people. Heal sickness, sadness, and pain. It's really all the world needs.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

I think when tragedies happen a lot of people go to therapy, psychiatrists, whatever, because they need to have someone to talk to. There's thousands of people a night that I get to talk to, by way of my music.

The biggest tragedy I had was the loss of my daughter from neuromuscular disease in 2000, at age 46.

In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it's a way of experiencing the person that you've lost again.

When you suffer a tragedy, the secondary loss of having it bleed into other areas of your life is so real.

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy.

I'm sure there are people who survive tragedy without humor, but I've never met any of them. Nor would I be particularly interested in writing about them if I did meet them.

When your first marriage goes into tragedy, you become very battle-scarred... I even thought of suicide. Luckily, I had known some happy marriages.

Tragedy takes us to the very state of consciousness which, were we to hold to it, would go far toward preventing further tragedies.

You are going to share in the most intimate parts of your patients' lives. You will share in their moments of tragedy. But you will also share in their moments of greatest joy.

I think funny comes from tragedy and time. And I think that's where I get it. I'm able to take things that are serious and sad, and turn it into funny. In all honesty - this is after a lot of therapy - I think that, you know, I need love from something, and so now, I find it through performing.

I've often said this - that you can get through a tragedy, and... you trudge on, but the pain never really goes away. And when you sing the songs about things that have happened, the pain surfaces and... it brings it all back.

A lot of people do have tragic childhoods. But you know what? Get over it.

A very sad moment for me was when my parents separated - a lot of crying, 'It's tragic, we're now a broken family, blah blah blah blah blah' - although my psychological problems stopped. I actually felt healthier.

Losing Jane was tragic and I thought I'd never get married again, or have more children, or would even ever want to.

Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a magic to just get rid of this tragic history of ours.

The death of my daughter is a subject I talk about briefly because there is nothing more tragic.

Accidents happen, whether they're car accidents, friendly fire, drug overdoses. Accidents happen, and they're tragic. It's like a bomb that goes off and pieces of shrapnel rip into the flesh of the family. It's the families that need the compassion, because everywhere they walk, every day, someone reminds them of their loss.

As doctors, we are not trained to communicate and understand the power of our words as they relate to a patient's ability and desire to survive.

One trait of addictive families is that we never recognize our own addictions.

I became comfortable with what I knew would be the process of trying to pick up the pieces of brain that were in the rubble and tried to make some mosaic out of the pieces and that that would be the trajectory.