Quotes About Healing

Slaves sing most when they are most unhappy. The songs of the slave represent the sorrows of his heart; and he is relieved by them, only as an aching heart is relieved by its tears.

There are words which sever hearts more than sharp swords; there are words the point of which sting the heart through the course of a whole life.

This project saved his life," Jackie said. "It helped him channel all his energies while distracting him from pain."53

Ready money works great cures.

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim." --

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive as long as I can paint.

My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best.

El arte más poderoso de la vida, es hacer del dolor un talismán que cura, una mariposa renace florecida en fiesta de colores.

también me mentía a mi misma, al decir que mi rechazo eran miedo a volver a sentir eso por alguien más; eran las tontas esperanzas de verte volver, tu que siempre tuviste las palabras para sanarme o romperme...

O Thou whose Name is sweetest remedy And whose remembrance heals our soul's disease With Thee each moment is Eternity A drop from Heaven that consoles and frees.

The practice of zazen can help you gradually clear away the layers of mental noise that prevent you from seeing how the things you're going through now relate to the stuff you did in the past.

being a survivor meant that you lived to some degree in a chronic state of mourning, like a low-level fever that waxes and wanes but is never truly eliminated.

The highest form of medicine is the simplest and most honest activation of the placebo effect via self-induction.

somehow I realized that the same part of me that had been responsible for creating the tumor would also be responsible for un-creating it.

In a world where damage is inevitable, nothing is more precious than a healer.

Life breaks us, Teft. Then we fill the cracks with something stronger.

Cleaning the wound is often more painful than the cut itself.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you," he said. "It would certainly make things easier if you did.

You don't stop loving someone just because they hurt you. It would certainly make things easier if you did.

She embraced him, and he found himself weeping. The daughter he'd never had, the little child of the streets. Though she was still small, she'd outgrown him. And she loved him anyway. He held his daughter close against his own broken soul.

Once the soul grows accustomed to the wound, it's much harder to fix.

I had a splinter once," Shallan noted. "It eventually got out of hand.

I tried to bring them back, but apparently fixing the bodies doesn't return the souls.

It had been eight years. The pain of loss was still there. It never went away. It just got buried in time, like a rock slowly being covered over by dirt.