Healing Quotes

"You are not supposed to be happy all the time. Life hurts and it’s hard. Not because you’re doing it wrong, but because it hurts for everybody. Don’t avoid the pain. You need it. It’s meant for you. Be still with it, let it come, let it go, let it leave you with the fuel you’ll burn to get your work done on this earth."

- Glennon Doyle

"There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after the winter."

- Rachel Carson

"Keep close to Nature’s heart… and break clear away, once in a while, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean."

- John Muir

"I go to Nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put together."

- John Burroughs

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"The antidote to exhaustion isn’t rest. It’s nature."

- Shikoba

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature. I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

- Anne Frank

"One dayJust like any otherSome dayThis one or anotherYou will look and see that I am gone(but did I really go?)I beg of you, don’t weep for meCan’t you see I’m finally free?Isn’t this what you would wish for me?Please tell me now you understandI’ll reach out to hold your handAll you have was all I had to give.My time on earth was just as long As it was s’posed to be.I’ll stay close to let you knowThat I am always here.My love, like yours, will never ceaseBe gentle with yourself.There’s so much more to livingJust love your life and keep on giving.I’ll be here. I am not gone.I’ll help you all to carry on."

- from the album “Three of Three” by Ryder Buck & the Breakers

"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 messengers of overwhelming grief...and unspeakable love."

- Washington Irving

"The reality is that you will grieve forever. You will not get over the loss of a loved one; you'll learn to live with it."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand."

- William Butler Yeats

"Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine."

- Thomas Aquinas

"Grieve and mourn for yourself not once or twice, but again and again."

- Morrie Schwartz

""And We send down in the Quran that which is healing" (Surah Al-Isra 17:82)"

- Quran

"A good laugh heals a lot of hurts."

- Madeleine L'Engle

"As soap is to the body, so laughter is to the soul."

- A Jewish Proverb

"Grim care, moroseness, and anxiety—all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. Mirth is God’s medicine."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing."

- Kevin Hart

"Laughter is God’s hand on the shoulder of a troubled world."

- Bettenell Huntznicker

"No matter what your heartache may be, laughing helps you forget it for a few seconds."

- Red Skelton

"Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well."

- Hippocrates

"Do not resist your pain. Surrender to the grief, despair, fear, loneliness or what form the suffering takes. Witness it without labelling it mentally. Allow it to be there. Embrace it. Then see how the miracle of surrender transmutes deep suffering into deep peace."

- Eckhart Tolle

"People can learn to control and change their behavior, but only if they feel safe enough to experiment with new solutions. The body keeps the score: If trauma is encoded in heartbreaking and gut-wrenching sensations, then our first priority is to help people move out of fight-or-flight states, reorganize their perception of danger, and manage relationships. ….Once you start approaching your body with curiosity rather than fear, everything shifts."

- Bessel A. van der Kolk

"Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Sit with it. Even though you want to run. Even when it’s heavy and difficult. Even though you’re not quite sure of the way through. Healing happens by feeling."

- Rebecca Ray

"Wishing you the light of God’s love, the warmth of God’s blessing, and the comfort of God’s healing"

- Anonymous

"I wish you healing and peace."

"Today and always, may loving memories bring you peace, comfort, and strength."

"What moves through us is a silence, a quiet sadness, a longing for one more day, one more word, one more touch, we may not understand why you left this earth so soon, or why you left before we were ready to say good-bye, but little by little, we begin to remember not just that you died, but that you lived. And that your life gave us memories too beautiful to forget. Although it's difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, May looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow."

"There's a very special garden Where the trees of memory grow Nurtured by the kindness And concern that good friends show. The roots are cherished memories Of good times in the past. The branches tender promises that souls endure and last. It's a place of peace and beauty Where bright new hopes can start It's memory's lovely garden That soothes the hurting heart"

- Unknown

"Words often don’t express the feelings we have but sometimes those words can get us through hard times. Take solace in the memories of a wonderful person that touched the lives of many."