Quotes About Healing

I find that people find a way out of misery through humor and it's humor that's often unacceptable to people who are not in quite such a state of misery.

I was so young when my dad died that I didn't think it had affected me. I had such tiny memories of him, just little glimpses, I thought I had been unaffected. But then I realised, somewhere in my late 40s I think, that probably the defining thing in my whole life was losing my dad.

For years, I prayed to the gods of Cao Dai for healing and peace. But as one prayer after another went unanswered, it became clear that either they were nonexistent or they did not care to lend a hand.

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

We may forget, or be unaware of, how prevalent it is to be sexually traumatized by events that are generally not thought of as traumatizing.

I want my music to be accessible to every listener because I know that I really have something to say in terms of really, you know, removing thorns from people, thorns that really makes us unaware that we are bleeding with these thorns, like pain, grief, jealousy and so on.

I was going through a crisis once, so I went to therapy because I was so unbearable for myself.

Only through loving and supporting one another, even in the face of unbearable pain and suffering, will this cycle of violence end.

You've got to realize, I've been stabbed three times; I'm not too used to this kind of love from people. It has been unbelievable the amount of support I've gotten. I'm getting letters, packages, e-mails, and phone calls from so many people. It's just overwhelming.

In fact, I can confidently say that 'South Park's' penchant for unbridled derision has been directly responsible for my own joy in some times of terrible sadness.

I've spent too many years at war with myself, the doctor has told me it's not good for my health.

Yet war doesn't end with armistice, it only ends with forgiveness and reconciliation.

I've learned that from a war ignited by revenge, nothing can be born, but sorrow. - Aladdin

We in Iraq have not descended from another planet. Just as people in many other countries have gotten over the tragedy of war, Iraq will get over its ordeal.

I guarantee you, as president of the United States, I know how to heal the wounds of war, I know how to deal with our adversaries, and I know how to deal with our friends.

After a war, after a concentration camp, I find it's not too difficult to be happy.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

The chanting went on, the musicians giving in to the rhythm of their own being, finding healing in touching that rhythm, and healing in chanting about death, the only real god they knew.

Too much war, hatred and fear in the world.Desperately needed: More art, love and poetry.

I've lived through a war. I've seen burning corpses on the road side. And yes, I will tell you, peace is the only way out.

The Marine Corps forced me to come home from Afghanistan. It's up to me to allow myself to come home.

Telling my story was supposed to be a good thing but it had just made everything worse.

Make not the scars of yesterdayMake you bitter todayYesterday has passedAnd like water in a river once passed Can never be returnedThe KhoiSan Book of Wisdom