Quotes About Healing

At times when I am feeling low, I hear from a friend and then, My worries start to go away, and I am on the mend. No matter what the doctors say, and their studies never end, The best cure of all, when spirits fall, is a kind word from a friend.

Mother was,' June thought, 'a beautiful little ornament that was damaged.' Her broken edges cut her daughters in ways both emotional and physical, and only sharpened with age.

Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.

Intimacy is healing.

We must heal the divisions caused by intolerance and bigotry.

I fell and broke my pelvic bone in three places. So, I'm still sort of an invalid now.

If I were a doctor, I would prescribe that you addict yourself deeply and irrevocably to music and never, ever seek cure outside of more music. It really is the best drug available.

Where grief is fresh, any attempt to divert it only irritates.

Sometimes people say, 'Oh, you're doing better now than before the accident.'That irritates the hell out of me.

All my mother ever wanted to talk about was what she hated about my father and the times he cheated on her when he was younger. It really irritated me, and I told them they had to sort things out between themselves. Looking back on that, I see that it was really cold of me as a son.

Lis and I didn't talk for a year. I was in a relationship that wasn't good for me. I became isolated. I had nobody anymore, I only had my relationship.

If you go deeper and deeper into your own heart, you'll be living in a world with less fear, isolation and loneliness.

Sometimes, when we're on tour, I'll find an empty room or a corner and I'll just sing. It heals something in me, be it some kind of isolation or loneliness. It's really quite beautiful that singing can do that.

Isolation is huge when you go through something traumatizing. You tend to want to isolate and kind of hide in your hole and kind of just go away.

I have some anger issues.

My dad spent most of my childhood behind bars. He went to jail 17 or 18 times. It was only when he was diagnosed with cancer in 2004 that we started to have a relationship.

You don't know what a broken jaw feels like until it happens.

They've put skin from my arm on my ankle and from my thigh on my arm. So whenever I get asked what's happened to me, I end up saying it's like a little jigsaw, parts of my body all over the place.

They did is sent me down Clearwater, Florida, and they said to me, Jessica, I need you to make Jim Bakker feel better.

I think of John every day. I do try to block it, but December 8th is not the only day I think of him.

I've had several joint surgeries just to get floating bone chips and different things removed.

I think music and laughter are the two things that can keep you alive. Someone who is really depressed, tell them a joke, and they may come out of it for even just a moment. Or play them something.

I make jokes because humor is the greatest healing factor that there is.

All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.