- You must let the pain visit. You must allow it teach you. You must not allow it overstay. Ijeoma Umebinyuo
- “I had been so afraid to open my heart to her, because I had been abandoned, neglected and very hurt, but she showed me that even though love can hurt, it can also heal.” ― Jacqueline Simon Gunn, The Cat Who Ate His Tail
- “You can’t change your past. The only thing you can change is your perspective of your past!” ― Dr Jeffrey L Gurian, Healing Your Heart, By Changing Your Mind: A Spiritual And Humorous Approach To Achieving Happiness
- “You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.” ― Eric Micha’el Leventhal
- “One that society can’t forgive, but I can.” ― Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
- No words or explanations can open the door. What will open the door is daily awareness and attention – awareness of how we speak, what we say, how we walk, what we think. Jiddu Krishnamurti
- “Trauma ruptures and hollows. Compassion mends and fills; love heals.” ― Na’ama Yehuda
- “If something beautiful is written on a whiteboard, you may never wipe it. Scars on your soul are like random lines scribbled on a whiteboard. They are an invitation to wipe away the past and future and live in eternity. Therefore, scars are sacred.” ― Shunya
- “Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” ― Miss Piggy
- “Impaired breathing, such as short and forced exhalation, makes the sympathetic part more active, resulting in shallow breathing, a tense body, increased stress, and fight or flight behaviour.” ― Anders Olsson, Conscious Breathing
- “Don’t feel bad about feeling bad. Don’t be frightened of feeling afraid. Don’t be angry about getting angry. There is no need to give up when we are feeling depressed. Nor should we be dismayed at the grief which often accompanies the outgrowing of anything which needs outgrowing. We can be glad that our soul is speaking to us and pushing us onwards. We frequently need to persevere with a period of inner turmoil before the dust can settle and be swept out the door.” ― Donna Goddard, The Love of Devotion
- “The reality of life is love and only love as love creates reality.” ― Wald Wassermann
- “Since embarking on this journey, I’ve learned that this is what alternative medicine does for people. By making us feel supported, by summoning the power of expectations and belief, by relaxing our bodies and reducing stress, mind-body therapies move molecules in our brains in a way that can reduce the ills we feel in our bodies.” ― Melanie Warner, The Magic Feather Effect: The Science of Alternative Medicine and the Surprising Power of Belief
- “You know that you won’t remain Centered all the time, and it is a normal part of human life to drift left or right of Center sometimes.” ― Sheila M. Burke, Enriched Heart: The Tao of Balancing Your Big, Beautiful, Badass Soul
- “If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.” ― Tobe Hanson, The Four Seasons Way of Life:: Ancient Wisdom for Healing and Personal Growth
- The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. Hubert H. Humphrey
- “We’re supposed to be ourselves, a mixture of the good and the bad. But mostly the bad. Those are our best parts to God. Opposites attract. We were made in His image, but from His bad side. And He made us that way so that His love, which is really all love, can course through us, can lift us up. It’s so much stronger when people aren’t perfect. Demands more from us, requires more love. We love each other to heal each other and ourselves through the very substance of God.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “When you finally get ‘there,’ you will realize that you can’t take it any further, but you can take it deeper.” ― Keith Anthony Blanchard, Homecoming: Crossing the Bridge to the Soul
- “As helpers, we often feel the need to see our impact in tangible, measurable ways. We allow negative language into our head about the “broken system;” we look through a lens of “it doesn’t matter, I can’t make a difference”. These ideas are surely contributing to our burnout.” ― Jenn Bruer, Helping Effortlessly: A Book of Inspiration and Healing
- “When you face any difficulty, do not panic but pray.” ― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
- “Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower….beautiful in essence.” ― Tony Samara
- Medicines heal doubts as well as diseases. Karl Marx
- “We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said” ― Gordon Lindsay
- “Maybe you’ve gotten through something and when you did you thought, I am leaving that behind and will never return. And that’s a great way of thinking…for selfish jerks.If we actually care about people other than ourselves, we can’t leave our problems behind and never return. If we don’t take the freedom we’ve experienced and try to bring it to others, we are not becoming people worth becoming.” ― Vince Antonucci, Guerrilla Lovers: Changing the World with Revolutionary Compassion
- “You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.” ― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
- “We are not to be occupied with our feelings or symptoms,or our faith or lack of faith,but only with what God has said” ― Gordon Lindsay
- Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words. Carl Gustav Jung
- “Love says to a husband, ‘I love you too much to help you do wrong. I will not sit here and let you destroy yourself and me by cursing me every night. I cannot make you stop cursing, but I will not be here to receive it tonight. If you want to make our lives better, then I am open. But I won’t be a part of letting you destroy me.’“Your attitude is not to be one of abandonment but of love,” (…)“ there is never a time to stop loving someone, but there is a time to start expressing that love in a different, more effective manner. Love is not letting someone step on you. Love is caring so much for their well-being that you refuse to play into their sick behavior. Many people are healed when someone loves them enough to stand up to their inappropriate actions.” ― Gary Chapman, Hope For the Separated: Wounded Marriages Can Be Healed
- Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within. Ernest Holmes
- “Everything is in the root. If you pick the weed without getting the root out of the soil, be assured, it is going to grow back.” ― Sheila Burke