Quotes About Healing

The tragedy is not that things are broken. The tragedy is that they are not mended again.

A cheerful face is nearly as good for an invalid as healthy weather.

"I can forgive, but I cannot forget" is only another way of saying, "I will not forgive." Forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note-torn in two and burned up so that it never can be shown against one.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter.

Keeping score of old scores and scars, getting even and one-upping, always make you less than you are.

To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee.

Resentments are burdens we don't need to carry.

Hate smolders and eventually destroys, not the hated but the hater.

Her breasts and arms ached with the beauty of her own forgiveness.

When we hurt each other we should write it down in the sand, so the winds of forgiveness can make it go away for good. When we help each other we should chisel it in stone, lest we never forget the love of a friend.

There are moments in life when all that we can bear is the sense that our friend is near us; our wounds would wince at consoling words that would reveal the depths of our pain.

A quarrel between friends, when made up, adds a new tie to friendship, as ... the callosity formed 'round a broken bone makes it stronger than before.

Acting can work a peculiar magic on the actor ... it can cure you (at least for the length of a performance) of a whole variety of ailments. Migraine headaches, miserable colds or toothaches will suddenly disappear as you're up there going through your paces.

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften.

Grief is itself a med'cine.

The only cure for grief is action.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of water.

In the Orient people believed that the basis of all disease was unhappiness. Thus to make a patient happy again was to restore him to health.

Hatred is self-punishment.

The Lord is close to those whose hearts are breaking.

A divorce is like an amputation: you survive it, but there's less of you.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.