Healing Quotes

"In resisting pain and trying to block it out, I’d also blocked out beauty and in opening to the pain I opened the door to a wealth of emotions such as love, tenderness and sensitivity."

- Vidyamala Burch

"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. You will heal and you will rebuild yourself around the loss you have suffered."

- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Healing comes from letting there be room for all of ‘this’ to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy."

- Rumi

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

- John Muir

"It is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes. We have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again."

- Robin Kimmerer

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature — the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts ...There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature—the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter."

- Rachel Carson

"Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul alike."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"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

"History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid."

- Lady Gaga

"You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up."

- Anne Lamott

"We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it."

- Elizabeth Berrien

"Write hard and clear about what hurts."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change."

- Julia Cameron

"Writing eases my suffering . . . writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence."

- Gao Xingjian

"This pouring thoughts out on paper has relieved me. I feel better and full of confidence and resolution."

- Diet Eman

"Recovery is not simple abstinence. It's about healing the brain, remembering how to feel, learning how to make good decisions, becoming the kind of person who can engage in healthy relationships, cultivating the willingness to accept help from others, daring to be honest, and opening up to doing."

- Debra Jay

"Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."

- China Miéville

"I still miss the players and I miss the game and the strategy. The first couple years were really difficult. Now I realize I'll never coach again. It's still hard to go into the stadium on a game day, because it's hard to just be a fan. But it's easier now than it was the first two or three years."

- Tom Osborne

"Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was."

- Aberjhani

"Heartbreak is life educating us."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Being with preschoolers heals the soul."

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"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

"Honor your grief and the pain you feel when you lose a beloved pet. It is the first step toward healing."

- Karen A. Anderson

"You’re afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety."

- Elizabeth Gilbert

"I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful—collecting these shards of spirituality—that we may be helping to bring about a healing."

- Leonard Nimoy

"Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."

"Happiness is the art of never holding in your mind the memory of any unpleasant thing that has passed."

"Don’t tell someone to forget what hurt them, (it’s important to) share and help someone else."

"Never underestimate the healing power of a quiet moment. Take all the time you need."