1. A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. ~Lindsay Wagner
2. All healing is first a healing of the heart. ~Carl Townsend
3. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller
4. Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. ~Gary Zukav
5. For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. ~Catherine Drinker Bowen
6. Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. ~Lewis B. Smedes
7. Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. ~Hippocrates
8. Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are. ~Rachel Naomi Remen
9. Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. ~Tori Amos
10. Healing yourself is connected with healing others. ~Yoko Ono
11. “Healing," Papa would tell me, "is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature." ~W.H. Auden
12. Humor is healing. ~Brad Garrett
13. I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods. ~Wendell Berry
14. I had NO IDEA that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. ~Susie Bright
15. I have a couple of girlfriends who are like, healing. We take care of each other. They know when I need to be taken care of. ~Maggie Gyllenhaal
16. I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. ~Billy Joel
17. I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal. ~Lindsay Wagner
18. Live your life from your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people's souls. ~Melody Beattie
19. Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. ~Sai Baba
20. Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music. ~Lester Bowie
21. Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. ~Buddha
22. The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. ~Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus
23. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. ~Henri Nouwen
24. The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. ~Hubert H. Humphrey
25. The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. ~Marianne Williamson
26. The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. ~Marianne Williamson
27. The root word of heal means “to make whole.” Healing is, in its essence, the task of recreating yourself.
28. The soul is healed by being with children. ~Fyodor Dostoyevsky
29. The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. ~Sarah Fielding
30. There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. ~Harry Crews
31. Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary. ~Ivy Compton-Burnett
32. To heal from the inside out is the key. ~Wynonna Judd
33. We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. ~Max de Pree
34. You don’t heal from something you are afraid of, you heal toward something you deeply desire. ~Dawna Markova