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Quotes About Healing

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.
~ Vera Farmiga
True men and women are all physicians to make us well.
~ C. A. Bartol
In "Faithful," Ray Bradbury is discussed a lot. The characters read "The Illustrated Man."
~ Alice Hoffman
I understood that the man I was calling for could never ever come back. Because I understood that the man that I was calling for was dead.
~ Anne Lamott
If a piece of knotted string can unleash the wind, and if a drowned man can awaken, then I believe a broken man can heal.
~ Annie Proulx
If only a man could spit his past out so easily.
~ Aravind Adiga
Regard ye the world as a man's body, which is afflicted with diverse ailments, and the recovery of which dependeth upon the harmonizing of all its component elements.
~ Baha'u'llah
What is it to bring the man out of his sepulchre if you leave him dead? Why lead him into the light if he is still blind? We thank God, that he who forgives our iniquities also heals our diseases.
~ Charles Spurgeon
There is no healing a man till the law has wounded him, no making him alive till the law has slain him.
~ Charles Spurgeon
I had problems a therapist couldn't solve; grief that no man in a room could ameliorate.
~ Cheryl Strayed
My business is staunching blood, and feeding fainting men.
~ Clara Barton
The man who forgives pays a tremendous price - the price of the evil he forgives.
~ David W Augsburger
As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.
~ Frank Moore Colby
Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
~ George Herbert
When a man was hurt you took him to the maester, but what could you do when your maester was hurt?
~ George R. R. Martin
It's wrenching enough to lose the man who is your lover, your companion, your best friend, the father of your children, without losing yourself as well.
~ Lynn Caine
Don't worry," I said. "These men are good. They're going to heal the world.
~ Maria V. Snyder
I just hugged the man that murdered my son.
~ Mary Johnson
When the Ngdanga tribe of West Africa hold their moon love ceremonies, the men of the tribe bang their heads on sacred trees until they get a nose bleed, which usually cures them of that.
~ Mike Harding
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
~ Milan Kundera
The greatest problem that war leaves, in a man, is how to recapture reality. That's because war is unreal.
~ Pearl S. Buck
Man is tied to the weight of his own past, and even by a great therapeutic labor little more can be accomplished than a shifting of the burden.
~ Philip Rieff
If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
~ Oprah Winfrey