Quotes About Healing

The power of forgiveness transcends personal relationships.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

Being reminded of your past doesn't mean that you have to live with constant grief. It simply means that you have been given the opportunity to transform your past into something positive.

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

I, myself, have not infrequently come across recovering addicts years later that I had given up on. It is like seeing a ghost come to life. The transformations can be astonishing.

Our task, in the aftermath of September 11, was and continues to be the transformation of the effects of evil into something beautiful and good.

Some people's healing and transformation may take years, and that does not mean that they're not in deep pursuit, you know?

Forgiveness, in some cases, is a flipping miracle in the sense that you're fighting, and suddenly something happens. It's a kind of grace. Whether you believe in God or not, something happens, and it's transformative.

The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.

I always wanted to see people's lives transformed from depression and anxiety to joy and peace.

Anything that gives us pain can be transformed into this, into beautiful moments shared with friends.

My favorite was 'The Secret Garden'. I loved it, and I think it's had a big influence on all of my characters. 'The Secret Garden' is about transgressions and imperfect people.

I know from experience that one of the first things to drop off during great transitions, such as dealing with grief or loss, is taking care of our bodies.

Songwriting really kicked in with the guitar. I was going through a lot as a kid. There had been a lot of transitions in my family. So it just became a total therapy, like most artists.

I've still got to do something to help, however tiny it is. I always think of the old Hebrew saying, which is translated roughly into, 'He who saves one life saves the world,' because it's pretty ghastly to think of all the people we're not saving.

I recently have had a full hip replacement and a liver transplant, and I'm getting used to the medication.

I had to have a complete liver transplant.

An actor with a genuine gift has the power to transport you from whatever your own pains may be into an entirely different world, freeing you from whatever you may be going through. At its best, it can be better than any medication.

What does music mean to me? I don't think I would really be much without it, without it coming through me. It's my means of communication, my means of growth, my means of transportation from one point in my life to another.

Dear Father, deliver us from evil. Deliver us from hatred. Heal our wounds, heal our souls. Give us inner peace in a world of dead and dying. Help us to love, even as they lay dying. Amen.

Scares of my past were drawn out on my body, still four years later scares on me fading. Yet even now the pain is still deep within my eyes. Yet the thing I noticed is people who been through that fight themselves, know how it hurts and are empathetic. Knowing no two are the same, also understanding it's always valid to have it because we are human.

Humor is the only way to overcome depression

No ?im se umiri i ponada da ?e utonuti u san, napadaju je sje?anja. U njoj se nakupimo tuge za nekoliko života. Prošlost je talog kojeg se ne uspijeva riješiti.