Quotes About Healing

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Nothing is better than music.... It has done more for us than we have the right to hope for.

Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.

To survive the day is triumph enough for the walking wounded among the great many of us.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

I am optimistic and confident in all that I do. I affirm only the best for myself and others. I am the creator of my life and my world. I meet daily challenges gracefully and with complete confidence. I fill my mind with positive, nurturing, and healing thoughts.

When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.

Disease can be seen as a call for personal transformation through metamorphosis. It is a transition from the death of your old self into the birth of your new.

Prayer is the force as real as terrestrial gravity. As a physician, I have seen men, after all other therapy had failed, lifted out of disease and melancholy by the serene effort of prayer. Only in prayer do we achieve that complete and harmonious assembly of body, mind and spirit which gives the frail human reed its unshakable strength.

Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual, fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

When praying for healing, ask great things of God and expect great things from God. But let us seek for that healing that really matters, the healing of the heart, enabling us to trust God simply, face God honestly, and live triumphantly.

I am going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes.

The psychiatrist must become a fellow traveller with his patient.

The point of therapy is get unhooked, not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

The four-letter word for psychotherapy is 'talk'.

Fortunately, analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself remains a very effective therapist.

I believe that this neglected, wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.

Forgetting of a wrong is a mild revenge.

In California everyone goes to a therapist, is a therapist, or is a therapist going to a therapist.

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through, of getting to the other side; the relief of a conflict healed; the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

A man must learn to forgive himself.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

The best and most efficient pharmacy is within your own system.