Healing Quotes

"Prioritize healing over history."

- Ebonee Davis

"Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you"

- Rupi Kaur

"We do learn so much about ourselves in our experiences. But also, know that it shouldn’t have happened. This was not a lesson you needed to learn."

- Jordan Pickell

"I’m still coping with my trauma, but coping by trying to find different ways to heal it rather than hide it."

- Clemantine Wamariya

"Music is like my secret garden. It’s where I heal myself from every pain that I feel. It’s like a therapy."

- Jain

"If you never heal from what hurt you, you’ll bleed on people who didn’t cut you."

- Tamara Kulish

"I push people away because I’m afraid I might not heal again if I get hurt. I push them away and paint my walls so good they can’t recognize me anymore. I don’t give people a chance."

- Inspired by Bisma Ijaz

"Healing never came when I clawed in search of it. Instead, it came when I was willing to listen to the lesson the pain was here to teach me."

- Lauren Fortenberry

"You let time pass. That’s the cure. You survive the days. You float like a rabid ghost through the weeks. You cry and wallow and lament and scratch your way back up through the months. And then one day, you find yourself alone on a bench in the sun, and you close your eyes, lean your head back and realize you’re okay."

- Cheryl Strayed

"We need never be ashamed of our tears."

- Charles Dickens

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are the messengers of overwhelming grief, of deep contrition, and of unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"That's the funny thing about old hurts- they just wait for new heartache to come along and then show up, just as sharp and horrible as the first day you woke up with the world changed all around you."

- Lilith Saintcrow

"The best revenge is living well without you."

- Joyce Carol Oates

"A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt."

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Go to the place inside that hurts. The part that’s lonely or sad. Your broken heart. Your bruised ego. The part of you that worries it will always be this way. Go there now and silently repeat: May you be happy. May you be safe. May you be filled with love. You’re not alone."

- Jason Garner

"The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been."

- Jodi Picoult

"The trick to healing from suffering, I think, is deciding that the pain was worth it."

- Aella

"Conquer pain by surrendering to the experience of it."

- Justin Kan

"To smile to our pain is the wisest, the most intelligent, the most beautiful thing we can do. There is no better way."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal."

- Vironika Tugaleva

"Handling our suffering is an art. If we know how to suffer, we suffer much less, and we’re no longer afraid of being overwhelmed by the suffering inside."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Embrace your suffering tenderly."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Recovery is about learning to live again."

"Healing comes when you let go of the past."

"Recovery is the path to finding peace."

"Healing is not about forgetting; it’s about growing stronger."

"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives."

"Weary no more. Come rest in our divine embrace."

"Heal so you can hear what’s being said without the filter of your wound."

- Unknown

"Healing doesn’t have to look magical or pretty. Real healing is hard, exhausting, and draining. Let yourself go through it. Don’t try to paint it as anything other than what it is. Be there for yourself without judgment."

- Unknown