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Quotes About Healing

To live by medicine is to live horribly.
~ Carl Linnaeus
Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.
~ Paul Tournier
Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.
~ Plutarch
I consider racism to be a medical problem. Racists need serious medical and psychiatric help, because they are killing themselves and making others suffer along with them.
~ Ishmael Reed
The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
~ Benjamin Carson
The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.
~ Denis Diderot
God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.
~ George Herbert
Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision.
~ John Robbins
Reiki has become a sought-after healing art among patients and mainstream medical professionals.
~ Mehmet Oz
And lo, the Hospital, gray, quiet, old, Where life and death like friendly chafferers meet.
~ William Ernest Henley
The medical clown connects with patients in a way that is markedly different from the rest of their experience in the hospital.
~ Jeff Raz
Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.
~ Alice Sebold
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race.
~ J. G. Ballard
I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.
~ Mehmet Oz
The primitive magician, the medicine man or shaman is not only a sick man, he is above all, a sick man who has been cured, who has succeeded in curing himself.
~ Mircea Eliade
They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear's uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
~ Black Elk
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves.
~ Ivo Andric
The Son of Man has authority over whatever has you paralyzed. Get up and walk.
~ Beth Moore
Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.
~ Nelson Mandela
Modern man is sick because he is not whole.
~ Carl Jung
Men must learn how to grieve, or they are inevitably angry or controlling, and they don't even know why.
~ Richard Rohr
Never worry for fear you have broken a man's heart; at the worst it is only sprained and a week's rest will put it in perfect working condition again.
~ Helen Rowland
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
~ Antonin Artaud
No man or woman alive, magical or not, has ever escaped some form of injury, whether physical, mental, or emotional. To hurt is as human as to breathe.
~ J. K. Rowling