Quotes About Healing

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Healing comes when the individual remembers his or her identity—the purpose chosen in the world of ancestral wisdom—and reconnects with that world of Spirit.

Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

If the other person injures you, you may forget the injury; but if you injure him you will always remember.

Only the wounded physician heals.

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.

If you become a helper of hearts, springs of wisdom will flow from your heart.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief.

Where lowland is, that's where water goes. All medicine wants is pain to cure.

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

When we forgive someone, the knots are untied and the past is released.

Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.

A physician who is a lover of wisdom is the equal to a god.

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.

Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.

[A] sick mind cannot be cured by the sheer force of persuasion.

When we turn to our innate wisdom for the harmony of mind and gut, we heal the entrance to the heart as it seeks to beat in rhythm with the world.

All pain is the same.

Sweet is a grief well ended.

Often the wisdom of the body Clarifies the despair of the spirit.