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Our bodies heal without permission but our hearts need consent. Give it.
— Lauren Eden
But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Are what they give us there:For flowers have been known to heal A common man's despair.
— Oscar Wilde
It had the tangled floor plan common to all hospitals, seemingly designed by someone who believed in the healing power of watching confused visitors aimlessly wander around hallways.
— David Wong, This Book Is Full of Spiders: Seriously, Dude, Don't Touch It
Tapping into our inherent sexuality can offer a gateway to deep healing of past hurts and wounds, which are carried in the body and can hinder one's potentials for leading the happy, sexually fulfilled life we all deserve.
— Antonia Hall, The Ultimate Guide to a Multi-Orgasmic Life
Time does not heal, but it can liberate. A race run well can never be lost.
— Dan Groat, A Punctual Paymaster
Your body is an integral part of your intuition.
— Maria Flynn
Scars heal when you learn to FLY.F(irst) L(ove) Y(ourself).
— Shilpa Menon
Healing is not a process, it is a choice. Nothing can heal your scars until you decide to.
— Shilpa Menon
In retrospect, I came to Nagasaki for the regenerative properties. The second atomic bomb blast so many years ago, which had swept up most of the city in a plutonium cloud, had made the city radioactively peace-loving. Reversing the usual cycle that turns victim into perpetrator, the people who stepped from the rubble filled their hearts with a fervent devotion to peace in all its forms.In my mind's eye I see them: wounded and dying, their lungs filled with ash and smoke. The ash sits there for some time, and when they exhale, miraculously, something akin to love comes out.
— Daniel Clausen, The Ghosts of Nagasaki
The Holy Spirit knows precisely the right timing in our lives. I always say, "Only the Holy Spirit knows when you are ready for what." In other words, the Spirit of the Lord is the only One Who knows what it will take to help you, and when you are ready to receive help.
— Joyce Meyer, Beauty for Ashes: Receiving Emotional Healing
Be healing with your words, be tender with your words, be gentle with your words and watch your words bring gentle, tender healing in the hearts of others.
— Heather Wolf, Kipnuk Visits Sea Isle
We must mend what has been torn apart, make justice imaginable again in a world so obviously unjust, give happiness a meaning once more to peoples poisoned by the misery of the century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But superhuman is the term for tasks [we] take a long time to accomplish, that’s all.
— Albert Camus
Thinking beyond the human condition often transcends us from it.
— Gary   Hopkins
Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.
— Maya Angelou
Life is a lesson that must never be taken for granted.
— Debra Roinestad, Protected by the Light: A Spiritual Memoir
If you didn't make me your world, why should I make you mine?
— Jenna Alatari
The only thing that I know that truly heals people is unconditional love.
— R.J. Palacio
Healing is not always about completely healing but sometimes just lessening of the pain.
— Matthew Donnelly
It is hard to say YES when you cannot say NO. Say NO a lot more. Mean it. Watch how saying YES then becomes easier.
— Gary K. Smith, The Mathematics of Sorrow: A Heart-based Model That Turns Sorrow Into A Gift
The absolute easiest thing to do is spend time, as often as one can, in tranquil or majestic nature. Look at butterflies. Walk barefoot in the sand. Put your feet in a clean, bubbling stream. Walk in a city park and feed the pigeons. Anything. Get out and take a walk.
— Gary K. Smith, The Mathematics of Sorrow: A Heart-based Model That Turns Sorrow Into A Gift
It’s also important to realize that healing is something we receive and keep by faith.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
Sorrow is specific. Sorrow is vibrational. Sorrow is the state of depressed dimensional fields in and around the heart region. So actually, what is being said here is that there comes a time when an individual cannot love enough to transmute certain experience. Certain experiences are so challenging that the individual’s heart region depresses. If one can transmute shocks to the heart, and regain or hold heart balance, then one understands the “mathematics of sorrow” at that dimensional spectrum.
— Gary K. Smith, The Mathematics of Sorrow: A Heart-based Model That Turns Sorrow Into A Gift
Every person is driven to self-deceive, simply to get out of the discomfort of the truth. The best relationships are with people who will not let you be blind. They reveal your hidden strengths and your concealed wounds.
— Vironika Tugaleva
God (Love) can heal anything. Your job is to give permission. It takes a lotof trust.
— Mabel Katz, The Easiest Way to Understanding Ho'oponopono
Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. "Eat," she said.Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He chewed. He swallowed.It had been a long time since he had eaten anything besides tiny fish and old bread.And so when Peter had his first bite of stew, it overwhelmed him. The warmth of it, the richness of it, knocked him backward; it was as if a gentle hand had pushed him when he was not expecting it. Everything he had lost came flooding back: the garden, his father, his mother, his sister, the promises that he had made and could not keep."What's this?" said Gloria Matienne. "The boy is crying.""Shhh," said Leo. He put his hand on Peter's shoulder. "Shhh. Don't worry, Peter. Everything will be good. All will be well. We will do together whatever it is that needs to be done. But for now, you must eat."Peter nodded. He raised his spoon. Again he chewed and swallowed, and again he was overcome. He could not help it. He could not stop the tears; they flowed down his cheeks and into the bowl. "It is a very good stew, Madam Matienne. he managed to say. "Truly, it is an excellent stew.
— Kate DiCamillo, The Magician's Elephant
We dream of the future, to distract ourselves from the present, in order to forget the past.Heal the past, live in the present and don’t rush to the future. Life is a journey and it will all be over before you know it.
— L.J. Vanier
If you don't believe something can be done, at least don't stand in the way of someone else doing it!
— Ed Strachar
Healing belongs to you. It belongs to you because sickness is of the enemy. It belongs to you because you are a spiritual child of Abraham. It belongs to you because sickness is a curse and Christ has redeemed you from the curse of the law.
— Paul Silway, Heaven I - Paradise: The City and Throne
With God’s help in the grasp of addiction you’ll find the truth. When we understand this and its purity, then true healing can begin.
— Ron Baratono
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships
—  it cannot occur in isolation.
Recovery can take place only within then context of relationships; it cannot occur in isolation. In her renewed connection with other people, the survivor re-creates the psychological facilities that were damaged or deformed by the traumatic experience. These faculties include the basic operations of trust, autonomy, initiative, competence, identity, and intimacy.Just as these capabilities are formed in relationships with other people, they must be reformed in such relationships.The first principle of recovery is empowerment of the survivor. She must be the author and arbiter of her own recovery. Others may offer advice, support, assistance, affection, and care, but not cure.Many benevolent and well-intentioned attempts to assist the survivor founder because this basic principle of empowerment is not observed. No intervention that takes power away from the survivor can possibly foster her recovery, no matter how much it appears to be in her immediate best interest.
— Judith Lewis Herman, Trauma and Recovery: The Aftermath of Violence - From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
Fear of breaking family loyalty is one of the greatest stumbling blockages to recovery. Yet, until we admit certain things we would rather excuse or deny, we cannot truly begin to put the past in the past, and leave it there once and for all. Unless we do that, we cannot even begin to think of having a future that is fully ours, untethered to the past, and we will be destined to repeat it.
— Ronald Allen Schulz
You might think that nobody’s insides are as messy as your insides. That’s an optical delusion. You only see other people’s outsides – never their insides. So you can’t possibly know.
— Deborah Pardes, Climbing Out from Under: A Handbook for Heartbreak
Gratitude is a harbinger of healing, the first robin of spring.
— Joyce Wycoff
…all that goes under the name of science is not necessarily scientific, and that all that goes under the name of health-care will not necessarily care for your health.
— Neville Mandy
O Lord, Thy Word, heals my wounds.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Hope is firm belief.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Christians who fail also avoid other Christians, especially when they are feeling bad and guilty in the midst of their failure. It's sad to see this dynamic of the law happen in the church and then see the opposite happen in Twelve Step groups. In these recovery groups, people are taught that the very first thing to do when you fail is to call someone in the group and get to a meeting. They are taught to "run to grace," as it were, to turn immediately to their higher power and their support system. The sad part is that this theology is more biblical than what is practices in many Christian environments, where people in failure run from instead of to God and the people they need.
— Henry Cloud
It hurts because He is treating your spiritual disease, just as a good medical practitioner does for his patients.
— Steven Chopade
You only live once this time around ... have no fear, take every chance, live, laugh, love.
— Rosanne Lombardo Heaton, TIME Heals
Truth and Honesty: this principle could bring about healing and harmony in any nation.
— Sunday Adelaja
This MomentThis straining, messy, awful,moment in time Is perfect. Push aside your agenda for a second and you’ll find perfection bursting out of its confines.This moment brings truth,illuminates weaknesses,and builds power and wisdomto make us stronger.There are numerous signs, here and now,that teach so profoundly,that validate the strengths we hold inside,that let us know who we really loveand what we need to say.If we can make ourselves look at these signs,at the whole picture, at how it fits together, at where our path is leading, we might discover how to turn our direction,So this moment can rise upriding a cloud of joy,and heal.
— JV Connors
In the world we live in, you will be warned ironically when you kill yourself, but will be killed literally when you heal yourself
— Goitsemang Mvula
It is often amidst the chaos in our life that we finally find the reason for our existence.
— Divya Nambiar
Only if I heal, can you heal. Only if you heal, can I heal. Otherwise, we would continue to scar each other.
— Srividya Srinivasan
It's frustrating when our best efforts to help people fail. But if we could see life through their weary eyes and experience their trials with the same frayed emotions, we might understand why.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Slaying Dragons
And now the birds were singing overhead, and there was a soft rustling in the undergrowth, and all the sounds of the forest that showed that life was still being lived blended with the souls of the dead in a woodland requiem. The whole forest now sang for Granny Weatherwax.
— Terry Pratchett
Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey—the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.
— Shannon Kopp, Pound for Pound: A Story of One Woman's Recovery and the Shelter Dogs Who Loved Her Back to Life
Time & distance does wonders for healing & rejuvenating your soul.
— April Mae Monterrosa
If someone thinks you can help or heal them, and you think you can’t, choose their faith over your doubt.
— Alan Cohen
A very smart woman once told me that anger can feel like a life buoy, like it's the only thing keeping you afloat, but that in order to heal you have to let go.
— Kimberly Belle, The Ones We Trust
God wants to take us step by step to free us from any unhealthy distractions. Don't expect other people to change, nor should we live in the past. He understands our hearts. We are not afraid to go forward because we are his children. Part of healing is understanding the past including the good and bad things
— Phil Mitchell, A Bright New Morning: An American Story
Our bodies are our vehicles of life. They are ours to take care of. If we aren’t taking care of them, they show signs of stress and wear. If we are taking care of our bodies, they show signs of healing and resiliency. A healthy body is an inspired body, and an inspired body is a happy body.
— Elaina Marie, Happiness is Overrated - Live the Inspired Life Instead
Healing from childhood abuse is not going mad, it is going sane.
— Jan  Hawkins, Person-Centred Practice: The BAPCA Reader
Tchingis, if you determine this is to be so, who can withstand you? You are poetry after an ugly day, and heal wounds I didn't know I had.
— Bryn  Hammond, Amgalant Two: Tribal Brawls
To love a place is not enough. We must find ways to heal it.
— Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants
To accept responsibility for your own feelings, your own triggers, and your own experience does not mean to stop communicating with others about how their words and actions affect you. You can own your emotions by not blaming others, and still give the people in your life gentle, loving feedback about how they can treat you in a way that helps your healing and happiness. Creating safe spaces is an interdependent process. It's not ever all about you and it's not ever all about the other person. It's about you coming together and working on the dynamics of your relationship together, taking responsibility for your own part and doing what you can to contribute to the well-being of the other.
— Vironika Tugaleva
A turquoise given by a loving hand carries with it happiness and good fortune."Arabic proverb
— Judy Hall, 101 Power Crystals: The Ultimate Guide to Magical Crystals, Gems, and Stones for Healing and Transformation
Never underestimate the healing power of silliness and absurdity.
— Steve Maraboli
Have you ever been by yourself with no distractions? No radio, no TV, no internet, no mobile. Have you every been yourself in complete and utter silence? With no expectations and nothing else to do?Silence heals.
— Ana Ortega
The first step to healing is to make peace with your scars
— Evy Michaels
Your path is illuminated by a road-map of stars. I am here to guide you!
— Ambika Devi
In the same way, filling a cavity restores to the tooth its natural function of chewing. Healing does not transcend our nature; it respects it.
— J. Budziszewski, What We Can't Not Know: A Guide
Things can’t mend without being broken.
— A.J. Compton, The Counting-Downers
Happy, Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise, for the rest of our days till the end of our lives.
— J. Lee Roberts
When your energy is not in present time, you don't have the energy to fuel your body-mind. To be able to heal your body, you need to have a large percentage of your energy in present time. This explains partially why some people are able to heal themselves quickly and others are not.
— Candess M. Campbell, 12 Weeks to Self-Healing: Transforming Pain Through Energy Medicine
We must heal this terminally ill world with love.
— Sunday Adelaja
You came into my life and you healed me. You made me feel alive again.
— Jay McLean, More Than Forever
Let the kindness and the raw, aching beauty of the universe shatter you over and over again. find peace in the knowledge that your whole is composed of the sum of all of your beautifully broken pieces. because breaking is becoming.
— Jeanette LeBlanc
Working with plants will teach you all other social commitments in a soothing way...
— Karthikeyan V
Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds.
— Amy Tan, The Valley of Amazement
We have all been hurt at some point in our lives, from a spouse, a friend, an employer, a co-worker,a pastor and sometimes the wounds are so deep we wonder if they will ever heal.
— Michael Richard Stosic, Thirty-Nine Days
He held out his arms and I ran to embrace him. It wasn’t that I couldn’t feel my sorrows anymore, it was as if they were never there. I felt safe, and loved. There were no words exchanged, we just held each other.
— Michael Brent Jones, A Hole in Heaven's Gate
....not only does the devil hate man, but he also has a special hatred for women and the wombs of women; for through the wombs of women come offspring who bring forth the purposes and intents of God here on earth.
— Theresa Pecku-Laryea, Hannah's Song
Vulnerability is what heals us.
— Denny Morales
May you find comfort by reading and mediation on God’s word.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
When you get your heart broken, other people can help you pick the pieces up, but only you can glue the pieces back together.
— Sam Madison, The Heartbroken Heartbreaker
When we run, hide and try to deny our trauma the little boy or girl within comes back to seek validation, healing and peace.
— Cecibel Contreras
Be at peace with yourself and with all men.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Your eyes see me in ways the mirror never could.
— Jenim Dibie
How do you survive the survivor?
— Kyo Maclear, Stray Love
It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.
— Kyo Maclear, Stray Love
May the Lord increase your strength.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Hang on! God will strength in any act of your pursuit.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Let your body move. It will give voice to a language that can heal.
— Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road
I was coming together...limb by limb, after being brokenfor an infinity.
— Sanober  Khan, A touch, a tear, a tempest
You know what's sexy? A person who's been through a life challenge, and comes out with insights, more depth, and a fiery passion to face forward, forward, forward!
— Karen Salmansohn, Instant Happy Journal: 365 Days of Inspiration, Gratitude, and Joy
If writers write not just with paper and ink or a word processor but with their own life's blood, then I think something like this is perhaps always the case. A book you write out of the depths of who you are, like a dream you dream out of those same depths, is entirely your own creation. All the words your characters speak are words that you alone have put into their mouths, just as every situation they become involved in is one that you alone have concocted for them. But it seems to me that nonetheless that a book you write, like a dream you dream, can have more healing and truth and wisdom in it at least for yourself than you feel in any way responsible for.
— Frederick Buechner, Telling Secrets
Give yourself a break to avoid a breakdown.
— Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back Book
Hope kept us alive in the midst of the turbulence.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Free your grudges and heal your wounds.
Throw out old clothes and shoes, and train your brain to get rid of old thoughts and ideas.
— Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back Book
Trying to find answers to why and how my life got into such a dismal mess, I sought answers in the scriptures, in religion and philosophy, but it only confused me further. Stories, on the other hand, helped me cope, heal and recover.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
Time not only heals, time reveals
— Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back Book
Believe in what makes you Healthy, because everything else is just garbage.
— Gary   Hopkins
The ultimate relationship is within thyself, knowing that all other relationships are a projection or a reflection of our ability or inability to love.
— Erin Fall Haskell
A strong heart can overcome sickness but those who lost hope can't.
— Auliq Ice
Silence heals.
— Nadun Lokuliyanage
A Broken Record can still play the best soundtrack. Broken can be beautiful when you allow God work on you.
— Kemi Sogunle
Tears are good for you," Raphael said. When she opened her eyes back up, he knelt down. His large frame seemed to make the room shrink. His face was almost level with hers as his eyes met Emma's. "They are a gift from the Creator to his creation. Tears release endorphins in the mind that help sooth and comfort. They cleanse the eyes and relieve stress, thereby lowering blood pressure and taking strain off of the heart. He created you with tears and nothing he created is bad. Those tears you are holding in are necessary, Emma. Let them fall, let them heal, and let them remind you with each one that you are not alone.
— Quinn Loftis, Dream of Me
It's not only the event itself, but the way we explain it to ourselves that causes depression.
— Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back Book
Moses, without any mercy, breaks all bruised reeds, and quenches all smoking flax. For the law requires personal, perpetual and perfect obedience from the heart, and that under a most terrible curse, but gives no strength. It is a severe task master, like Pharaoh's, requiring the whole tale ofbricks and yet giving no straw. Christ comes with blessing after blessing, even upon those whom Moses had cursed, and with healing balm for those wounds which Moses had made.
— Richard Sibbes, The Bruised Reed
feeling means your dealing means your healing
— Karen Salmansohn
Write a complaint letter. Then answer it.
— Karen Salmansohn, Bounce Back Book
The pain you endure today will lead to a better tomorrow. Don't dwell so much on the pain but focus on the lessons learned. There in lies your strength to rise above all odds. Your best is yet to come.
— Kemi Sogunle
When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself.
— Jenna Alatari
Blessed be His name that He has arranged that one Person of the Sacred Trinity should undertake this office of Comforter, for no man could ever perform its duties. We might as well hope to be the Savior as to be the Comforter of the heartbroken!
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Nature in her green, tranquil woods heals and soothes all affliction,’ wrote John Muir. ‘Earth hath no sorrows that earth cannot heal.’ Now I knew this for what it was: a beguiling but dangerous lie. I was furious with myself and my own conscious certainty that t his was the cure I needed. Hands are for other humans to hold. They should not be reserved exclusively as perches for hawks. And the wild is not a panacea for the human soul; too much in the air can corrode it to nothing.
— Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk
I have been hurt so bad and I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.
— Alexandra Elle, Words from a Wanderer
I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.
— Nikki Rowe
Your darkest moments are not meant to be swept under the carpet, hidden from the world in the silent pursuit of perfection. The darkness you've overcome is your ticket into leadership. It's what you're meant to light up in the world.
— Vironika Tugaleva
How everyone is struggling for something. Trying to keep the balance. Struggling to find their way back. Doing the best they can with what they've been dealt. Staying in place, doing anything to keep from sinking. To keep from rising. Until something changes. Like a day at school, a friend for lunch, someone standing up for you. And the choice to feel. Standing before you. Realizing what part is yours. What you can and can't do. Who you are. Who you are meant to be. More than the sum of all your broken parts.
— Ash Parsons, Still Waters
At the end of the day, what matters most is not what tore you apart but the love than binds and heals your heart.
— Kemi Sogunle
To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept permanent scars that cincture the heart and traumas of the mind that occasionally reopen to weep again.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Hours
I decided to devote my life to telling my story because I felt that having survived I owe something to the world and anyone who has endured the pain, the isolation and the betrayal of family members.Though I no longer live in silence, I continued to carry the pain and the memories. This is something that will always be part of me but I choose not to be defined by this crime. I choose to give hope and I want survivors to know that they're not alone. I want children to have the opportunity to be happy, safe and protected from sexual abuse.
— Cecibel Contreras
I have been hurt so bad but I still love so hard, I admire my heart for that.
— Alexandra Elle
When you feel that unpleasant darkness invading your mind, read this book and these stories will help you return to the light and warmth of life.
— Indu Muralidharan, The Reengineers
getting angry and harbouring bitterness doesn’t help anybody, least of all the angry bitter person.
— Jane Wilson-Howarth, Snowfed Waters
Love is the most powerful healing energy. Everything you do with love spreads healing. So feel it,be it, and spread it.
— Abhishek Kumar, Stardust Family - We Are One!
I have said so many times to many people on the spiritual path, 'You must be strong in yourself to help others. People who are in the emotional sea need someone who can pull them out, not someone who gets in with them and gets dragged away by the tidal wave of human emotions. We have to become emotional lifeguards.
— Gordon Smith
We are all part of something magnificent.
— Jenna Alatari
A scar isn't about the injury, it's about the healing.
— Daniel José Older, Salsa Nocturna: Stories
It wasn’t only his city that was healing, Raphael thought, his eyes catching the refracted light that betrayed Aodhan’s presence in the sky; his people were, too. And it had all begun with a single, vulnerable mortal who did not accept that to be an archangel was to be always right.
— Nalini Singh, Archangel's Shadows
We have to walk by faith to possess all that is duly ours.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
It may hurt today, but it will get better. Time passes, and people forget. It won't be long before you'll be able to look back on everything that happened today and laugh.
— Trudi Trueit, Julep O'Toole: Confessions of a Middle Child
...I felt the wall between the world of secrets and the real world start to collapse. I felt the girls from the portrait becoming us and us becoming them...
— Carol Rifka Brunt, Tell the Wolves I'm Home
To show you all my scars, is not to tell you that this Dunya would always leave you wounded, and bruised, and on knees, but to show you that see, healing is always possible. Healing is easy. Healing is beautiful.
— Khadija Rupa
It's not about changing "them," it's about healing YOU.
— Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness
Hold fast to your faith.Keep your hope in the Lord.Embrace the love of God.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
...the heart is a muscle like any other. Tearing it down is the only way to make it stronger.
— Sarah Skilton, Bruised
They called her witch because she knew how to heal herself.
— Té V. Smith, Here We Are, Reflections of A God Gone Mad
You can be broken into a dozen shattered pieces and still heal the world because service has its own medicine--hope.
— Shannon L. Alder
The most beautiful, amazing and inevitable fact about life- Everything has a natural healing process.
— Sanober  Khan
Often times, people don't realize how much their childhood still affects them when they are an adult. Or other people don’t realize the affect things still have on those they know. Other people might even say, “Get over it” or “Move on.” But it’s usually simply not that easy.
— Lisa Bedrick, Sexually Abused and Christian
I have heard that Paganism is for broken people, but life cracks everyone in some way. We are a religion of healing people.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft
Awakening is not a journey of discovering a distant land or a coveted secret, but rather, it is a journey of surrendering to what has always been present but shrouded in illusion and disillusion.
— Shavasti, Embracing the Power of Truth
Healing comes through God's work, and God deals differently with us when we deal differently with him.
— Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
Loving someone isn’t about fairy tales or control. None of us walk through the world unwounded. Love is simply giving someone a safe space to grow and heal, and that’s how we have to love ourselves as well.
— James Avery Fuchs, Gasoline and Winter
Doctors
—  all they do is make you worse and take all your money. That's a general statement.
But time heals, as they say, or more to the point, fresher wounds help us to forget the old scars.
— Rudy Schwartz (Joe Newman)
I could not see beauty until I held hands with chaos in silence.
— Vironika Tugaleva
When a plan fails, it does not mean we have failed. It just means we need a new plan.
— Jenna Alatari
When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered the things I have, I forgot I lost anything at all.
— Jenna Alatari
Love is the only way. There has been enough pain, enough war, enough killing. Enough. No more.
— Ellen Newhouse, Nothing Ever Goes On Here
The pain of childhood walks beside me as a friend, it teaches me how to invite the stillness of compassion - Shavasti
— Shavasti, Embracing the Power of Truth
When I stood there, looking out the window at the raindrops and thinking of everything I lost, I forgot everything I have. When I remembered everything I have, I forgot everything I lost.
— Jenna Alatari
I had built such a wall between my experiences and how I felt about those experiences that I was incapable of reliving both simultaneously. I could talk about my traumas, even walk through them, but I couldn’t feel them. When I tried to bring it all together, when I tried to remember how I had felt, I disappeared in my own head. My to-do list took on grave importance. The book I read the night before filled my thoughts. Yesterday’s article suddenly called out to be rewritten. I couldn’t get inside myself.
— Sarah Hackley, Women Will Save the World
It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.
— Ann Marlowe
People like to say that time heals all wounds, but I don't believe it. I remember once Grandpa took me firewood cutting, and as we looked at the rings of the tree together, he pointed out the years where there was drought and the years where there was fire. So while time allowed for new growth that hid the scars of the past, those scars were still there, inside the tree, and part of the tree. I think about how I am like that tree.
— Kaya McLaren, Church of the Dog
The only way to get over the pain is to face it, embrace it, hug it and learn the lessons embedded within it.
— Adele Theron
I have found out the hard way that the path from victim to victory hinges on one word…Choose.
— Tam Hodge, And Now I Choose: A Story for Those Who Believe They Have No Choice
Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.
— Stephanie S. Covington, Beyond Trauma: A Healing Journey For Women
Life requires of man spiritual elasticity, so that he may temper his efforts to the chances that are offered.
— Viktor E. Frankl
Abuse? Ah. Such problems, even with time, do not go away on their own. They must be addressed. André Chevalier
— Nikki Sex, Abuse
Nothing heals better than saying good truthful words to oneself. If the heart feels them, everything else gets better.
— Rola Mahmoud
All things are possible to those who believe:
— Bible. New International Version Mark 9 23
Since we human beings are the cause of the environmental problems that we face today, we can also be the solution. We just need a shift in our thinking. We just need to move away from the paradigm of competition and domination. Then this world will not end. In fact, the world will prosper and return to its original place as the cradle of self-discovery and the advancement of human spirituality. And such a world is a true democracy.
— Seung Heun Lee, Healing Society: A Prescription for Global Enlightenment
The body protects itself, and the same happens in the mind. It occurs sluggishly and imperfectly, a bad job done by indifferent craftsmen, but within minutes an accretion of defence mechanisms starts to form around the trauma, blunting its edges, eventually sealing it away inside scar tissue. Like a sliver of glass buried deep in a cut, the event will never go away, and often a movement will cause it to nudge a nerve ending and burn like fire for a while. However much it hurts when that happens, the last thing you want.
— Michael Marshall, The Straw Men
No matter how much you cry, the tears will dry. No matter how many nightmares, flashbacks, visions, or terrors you endure, they will pass. To weather these in order to find your true self and the happiness you deserve, that is not a risk. To waste the time you have in this body, never showing your soul to yourself or anyone else, living in fearful misery – that is really the most dangerous thing you can do.
— Vironika Tugaleva, The Love Mindset
Who can see inside the deepest recesses of your imagination and manifest those wishes into your daily experience? Who can appreciate those subtle nuances of character you've acquired by overcoming your deepest fears? Who can truly respect those things that are no longer a part of you because of all your work to release them? Who can see the strength left behind in the wake of your unique struggles and obstacles? Who will see you for who you are, appreciating everything that is there, everything that is not, everything that can be, if you do not? Who else can?
— Vironika Tugaleva
You really don't have to burn any bridges to let go... You don't have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.
— Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress Workbook: A Workbook for Holistic Recovery
We must make time to reflect on life.Someday this life will be gone.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
There is no greater gift than realizing the constant presence of the Divine and His Absolute Power to create and restore all things.
— Marta Mrotek, Miracle in Progress: A Handbook for Holistic Recovery
No one escapes the wounding of the soul. You, much like me may have many questions of a painful past and focus on that pain. Maybe you have sought love and affection only to be used and left empty inside. Even now you close yourself off determined never to be hurt again so no one will ever see the beauty that lies within. I want to tell you as a woman or man you are highly valued in the eyes of God. You are His Crowning jewel of all creation. You are the pearl. We are all pearls of great value.
— Cecibel Contreras, Rainbows in the Dark
On angel's wings, love flew in.
— Renee Dyer, Eyes Wide Open
When you touch someone who authentically represents a tradition, you not only touch his or her tradition, you also touch your own.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to grow. If a relationship is causing us grief, the ocean breeze will continue to blow. Taking a breath away from our challenges, and recognizing the nature around us, can help open the door to our Divine nature and allow the healing to begin.
— Charles F. Glassman
Victory takes risk and risk takes courage to overcome the evil demons from our past.
— Cecibel Contreras
There was no point in telling somebody not to cry, she had always thought; indeed there were times when you should do exactly the opposite, when you should urge people to cry, to start the healing that sometimes only tears can bring. But if there was a place for tears of relief, there might even be a place for tears of pride[.]
— Alexander McCall Smith, The Good Husband of Zebra Drive
Nature does not know of the challenges that face us. No matter what money difficulties we have, the sun will continue to shine. If it is health challenges we face, the grass will continue to grow. If a relationship is causing us grief, the ocean breeze will continue to blow. Taking a breathe away from our challenges, and recognizing the nature around us, can help open the door to our Divine nature and allow the healing to begin.
— Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain   The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets." Begin again.
— Cora Coralina
But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.
— N. Maria Kwami, Secrets of the Bending Grove
Add these affirmations:"Bright LifeParticles are energizing my body.""Every cell in my body vibrates with energy and health.
— Ilchi Lee, LifeParticle Meditation: A Practical Guide to Healing and Transformation
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.
— Cora Coralina
You're not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you.
— Pauline Seaport
Hope: Hold on, persistence effort!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Renunciation isn't a moral imperative or a form of self-denial. It's simply cooperation with the way things are: for moments do pass away, one after the other. Resisting this natural unfolding doesn't change it; resistance only makes it painful. So we renounce our resistance, our noncooperation, our stubborn refusal to enter life as it is. We renounce our fantasy of a beautiful past and an exciting future we can cherish and hold on to. Life just isn't like this. Life, time, is letting go, moment after moment. Life and time redeem themselves constantly, heal themselves constantly, only we don't know this, and much as we long to be healed and redeemed, we refuse to recognize this truth. This is why the sirens' songs are so attractive and so deadly. They propose a world of indulgence and wishful thinking, an unreal world that is seductive and destructive. (142)
— Norman Fischer, Sailing Home: Using the Wisdom of Homer's Odyssey to Navigate Life's Perils and Pitfalls
I do not know the details of tomorrow, but I have a hope for a better tomorrows.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
To enjoy true, vibrant health, increased awareness, effort, and focus are required.
— Rand Olson, Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Medication, surgery, and medical tests are all focused on disease, not on health. Prevention is the act of moving away from the disease. Proactivity in health is seeking a high level of wellness and acting in a way that will create that reality in your life.
— Rand Olson, Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
In the experience is the emotion. In the emotion is the gift.
— Patricia Brooks
What we sometimes see as annoying, incessant questions from a child may be a plea for recognition. Maybe they do not need an answer as much as attention.
— Rand Olson, Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.
— Harley King, It's Okay to Cry: Warm, Compassionate Stories That Help You Find Hope and Healing After the Death of a Pet
A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Oh, darlin’, I’m gonna walk you through it, kiss you through it, feel you through it, taste you through it. Hell, I’m hoping you call out my name through it, but for some reason, if I can’t get you off, by all means, play along. It won’t hurt my feelings. But I don’t think you’ll need to.
— Beverly Preston, Surviving Broken
Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.
— Rand Olson, Children of Promise: The Ultimate Guide to Raising Healthy Kids
Come, come into this circle of grace and friendship.Come bringing only your open heart.You owe us nothing but truth, you need no heavy armor here.Show us your beautiful scars, the evidence of adventures you’ve survived.Tell your stories from the road.This space is home.You are safe to come as you are without fear.
— Jacob Nordby
The simple, humble, almighty, supreme virtue of love is the invincible fire of transformation for healing the world.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
There was so much about our past that I still didn't understand, and I wasn't one to tell the future. I could only tell the way the world worked. History was a tangled thing, people were resilient, and the one constant law of the world was that it would heal.
— Brenna Yovanoff, Fiendish
Your highest purpose and calling is often really calling for your own healing
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demoralizing.
— Chris Prentiss, The Alcoholism and Addiction Cure
The art of living is to fall in love over and over again.It is no easy thing to walk through the world with an open heart, embracing everything, and also stand true, allowing no poison to infect us.But be cracked open often.Pour yourself into life withholding nothing. Heal and be healed. This is the way of living in full.
— Jacob Nordby
All that crap about time being a great healer is bullshit. Time heals nothing. Well, acne maybe.
— Saurbh Katyal, Seduced by Murder
it’s okay to love onseLf unconditionally so tHat U truly know U &can recognize the embedded healing & curing aspects &properties buried with-in U & Eye (all of us]
— Irucka Ajani Embry, Balancing the Rift: Reconnectualizing the Pasenture
Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It’s a way to find healing, and to healing others.
— M. Kirin
We wouldn't have much need of a war if people stopped using drugs. It's like taking up a fight against the use of headache remedies
—  it will never work until the condition causing people's headache pain is healed.
Do not partner with fear to help you make decisions
— Jeannette Gregory
Love and mercy heals;where nothing works, love does..
— Henrietta Newton Martin
Your body will heal itself, through gentle and peaceful cooperation with the inherent wisdom and intelligence within.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
Healing light shines upon your soul even when the clouds roll in and the sky goes gray. The beauty of your rainbow fills the space between the gray and the blue providing balance to your soul. I see the rainbow's reflection in your eyes always. May God's light maintain the vibrant color of your heart.
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can’t heal the sick by force-feeding them with ideas they’re not ready to accept; you can’t cure people by the simple imposition of your will. It’s the power of the Holy Spirit that heals, not the power of a would-be wonder-worker trying to play God.
— Susan Howatch, Mystical Paths
Religion is also a process of healing, I discovered – a healing of the soul. Even our language points to this relation. The words ‘holy’, ‘wholesome’ and ‘healing’ all have the same root. (In German, this is even more striking: heilig, heil and heilen.) Muslims believe that all humans are born in a state of purity, our fitra, and it is only in the course of our lives that we tarnish our soul through bad habits and wrong behaviour. Through spiritual practices such as prayer, recitation of Quran and dhikr we can cleanse these acquired ‘black spots’ in our soul and return towards our original primordial nature. More so, dhikr is said to enliven the heart.
— Kristiane Backer, From MTV to Mecca: How Islam Inspired My Life
I think you've got to get out whatever's hurting you through your art, so it doesn't twist you up inside.
— Cheryl Rainfield, Scars
I know you're upset, I know you're scared, but don't walk away.
— Cheryl Rainfield, Scars
There is no disease, no sickness, no problem, and no circumstance that cannot be overcome by the healing power of God's love. God wants to heal you! He wants you to be made whole. Call on Him. Cry out to Him. Trust in Him. Have faith. God hears you, and He will help you more than you can ever imagine.
— Lydia  Marshall, To God Be the Glory: A Personal Testimony of God's Healing Power
Interact with others as if you are radiating happiness and healing from within.
— Franklin Gillette
I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside--stronger than I ever realized.
— Cheryl Rainfield, Stained
If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
— Cheryl Rainfield, Stained
We have often done well knowing the mind of God in our churches today. We have not done as well knowing His heart. We have largely become a church that pursues insights, principles, and theological concepts. No other church in history has had sounder theology or has known as much about God as many of our churches do today. However, we seem to know so little about His heart. Maybe this has troubled you, too. With all our insight, all our knowledge, all our information, and all our depth of theology, we seem to have so much difficulty functioning in the most basic Christian things, like personal holiness and loving people more than things. In our churches we are so easily hurt, and we hold on to those hurts for so long. We easily walk away from one another and quickly leave our churches when we experience disappointments and failures. There is often much judging and little compassion. Too many people remain alone in their pain.God desires to reveal His heart to us and to build His heart into us as we seek His face. Insight alone does not transform us; only the things that flow from the heart of God transform the lives of people. As God opens His heart to be known by us and as He builds His heart into us, His love will flow through us to those who are in desperate need of His forgiveness, His compassion, His healing, and His life.
— Bill Mills, Adequate: How God Empowers Ordinary People to Serve
As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.
— Diane Keaton, Then Again
Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.
— Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
True healers know that wellness is the order of the day, so they do not allow themselves, even for a moment, to see anything other than that. So, the power of the healer is in the power to influence the one who needs to be healed into a vibration that allows the healing that they are summoning. (that they could get, even without the healer, but they can get faster with a healer's influence).
— Abraham Hicks
Pain is like a healing emotional fever.
— Bryant McGill
There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom.
— Bryant McGill
The path that takes us from here, to the fulfillment of our life purpose is who we are. We are the bridge to our destiny." (From the Secrets to Divine Manifestations)
— Alain Yaovi M. Dagba, Secrets to Divine Manifestations: Finding Your Life Purpose Through the Rebirth of Your Soul