Quotes About Healing

I shall take all the troubles of the past, all the disappointments, all the headaches, and I shall pack them in a bag and throw them in the East River.

Humor is a wonderful way to deal with our suffering because if we can laugh at our troubles, we can feel better. Thich Nhat Hanh is a special man who has helped millions with their suffering with incredible technique. But he doesn't know real suffering, because he has not dated as much as I have.

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.

By the time I got to songwriting, I had been faced with a lot of troubles as a result of my own collective of trauma. I was someone who instinctively figured out that writing songs about the struggle helps you with the struggle.

Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.

I still haven't found the humor in getting hit by a cement truck. My knees still hurt when I think about it, so no jokes about that yet.

If I got hit by a truck, I would want to go to hospital, but if something is bothering me I will see my naturopath.

I started my surgery career early, at 11 years old when I was hit by the truck.

Soul music is true to its name. It's music that connects to your soul, your spirit. When music resonates with people's spirit like that, when people can emotionally connect with something or it helps to heal them, transform them, that never goes out of style. People will always need something to relate to.

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine.

The acting served as an outlet for my emotions for some time because I was doing it under the guise of someone else. And that can only be therapeutic up to a point until you truly deal with it and can express it to someone directly. Acting was a helpful outlet for me as a child. In some ways, I can say it saved my life.

I didn't want to become some embittered old hack getting his revenge for the rest of my life. And I didn't want to become some scared creature cowering in a corner. I remember telling myself not to carry the hatred around, although I know where it is. I have it in a trunk in storage.

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

A lot of people who have experienced trauma at the hands of people they've trusted take responsibility, and that is what's toxic.

Empathy is a necessary step for truth and reconciliation.

The truth is that several years ago, I suffered from depression. And I remember during this time, I basically fell into this hole where my life became cold, and it became gray, and I lost sight of everything that was important to me.

We are all spirits. We get depressed. But music makes you want to live. I know my music has saved my life.

I was angry at my parents when I had to have brain surgery, that they weren't still around, because no matter how old you are you want you parents when you're going through something like that.

I do believe in forgiving and forgetting. There was a reason we were together. I just want to hold on to the good times.

You should therefore say: alone in one's boat, alone with one's care, alone with one's despair, which one is craven enough to want rather to keep than submit to the pain of being healed.

The doctor will persist in laboring under the delusion that patients want common sense instead of magic.

God's not afraid of a mess. He wants to do a cleaning.

I do not know what you are supposed to do with memories likes these. It feels wrong to want to forget. Perhaps this is why we write these things down, so we can move on.