Quotes About Healing

To get rid of an enemy one must love him.

Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?

Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been grown over with an impenetrable layer of mould, some delicate blades of grass, young and tender, were already pushing their way upwards, destined to take root and send out living shoots so effectively that her all-consuming grief would soon be lost and forgotten. The wound was healing from inside.

Why do we begin to forget, then sometimes remember with such clarity people we've lost?

In the early 1980s, the authors of this book first heard about a medical practice that involves integrating music into the treatment of both biomedical and psychological disorders. At the time, we thought the field now called music therapy was a new mode of treatment and a new occupation. As the preceding examples illustrate, many other cultures have long recognized the connection between music and healing and have integrated the performance arts into their treatments.

Because, again, very often your attitude about why an accident or illness has happened has an effect on your recuperation.

Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears

Clearing the past was a precise process of becoming aware of our individual ways of controlling learned in childhood. And once we could transcend this habit, it said, we would find our higher selves, our evolutionary identities.

When we heal ourselves, others are healed. When we nurture our dreams, we give birth to the dreams of humankind. When we walk as loving aspects of the Earth Mother, we become the fertile, life-giving Mothers of the Creative Force. When we honor our bodies, our health, and our emotional needs, we make space for our dreams to come into being. When we speak the truth from our healed hearts, we allow life abundant to continue on our Mother Planet.

she realized this was the first positive goal she'd had since before Jeremy had died. A goal that meant expansion in her life, not forced contraction.

but she'd learned that anger and regret were bitter desserts.

Try to remember only the good now. The rest of it no longer serves you.

when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest.

Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where.

Time, time will heal the wound.

Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing -- fortifying and bracing -- seemingly just as was wanted -- sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure.

its healing powers, on a disappointed heart

Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health.

but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure.

But we must stem the tide of malice, and pour into the wounded bosoms of each other the balm of sisterly consolation.

La amistad es el mejor bálsamo para las heridas que produce en el alma un amor mal correspondido.

when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in