Quotes About Healing

For the hour in which I am able to lose myself in someone else's thoughts is the greatest relief I can find from the burden of my own memories.

It went on from there. One last, god-awful, no-holds-barred blue; one of those fights where you pour out every poisonous thought you've ever had, the dregs of every grievance, and you set the cup in front of the other person and force them to drink it.

I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve, and yet you live, and are useful, and bring life to others.

Somehow, the telling of all this rinsed my mind clean and left me able to think clearly once more. By gathering and sorting my own feelings so, I was finally able to fashion a scale on which I could weigh my father's nature and find a balance between my disgust for him and an understanding of him; my guilt in the matter of his death against the debt he owed me for the manner of my life. At the finish of it, I felt free of him, and I was able to think calmly once more. Elinor

There is no ghost so difficult to lay as the ghost of an injury.

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

Humor has great power to heal on an emotional level. You can't hold anger, you can't hold fear, you can't hold hurt while you're laughing.

Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart.

It is this intangible thing, love in many forms, which enters into every therapeutic relationship. . . . And it is an element which binds and heals, which comforts and restores, which works what we have to call - for now - miracles.

Nature heals under the auspices of the medical profession.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and forboding.

To cure sometimes, to relieve often, to comfort always.

Every surgeon carries about him a little cemetery, in which from time to time he goes to pray, a cemetery of bitterness and regret, of which he seeks the reason for certain of his failures.

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

Every invalid is a physician.

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well.

It requires a great deal of faith for a man to be cured by his own placebos.

We firmly believe that therapy is education rather than healing; that it is growth rather than treatment.

The physician heals, Nature makes well.

Nature, time, and patience are the three great physicians.

He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of the most medicines.

I firmly believe that if the whole materia medica as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be all the better for mankind and all the worse for the fishes.

Physician, heal thyself.

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.