Healing Quotes

"Start healing your heart and you will look beautiful."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"If you are heartbroken, still leave your heart open, so pain can find an exit."

- Alexandra Vasiliu

"The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society."

- Maya Angelou

"Salvation is certainly among the reasons I read... Stories have given me a place in which to lose myself. They have allowed me to remember. They have allowed me to forget. They have allowed me to imagine different endings and better possible worlds."

- Roxane Gay

"Healing, as I see it, is not the absence of pain. Rather it is a gradual reduction in the ache. The lessening of that hurt eventually makes room for fond memories to surface."

- Cicely Tyson

"Pain is a pesky part of being human, I've learned it feels like a stab wound to the heart, something I wish we could all do without, in our lives here. Pain is a sudden hurt that can't be escaped. But then I have also learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air! We may not have wings growing out of our backs, but healing is the closest thing that will give us that wind against our faces."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Pain will leave you, when you let go."

- Jeremy Aldana

"Petting, scratching and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."

- Dean Koontz

"How it all nourishes, lulls me, in the way most needed; the open air, the rye-fields, the apple orchards."

- Walt Whitman

"The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quite alone with the heavens, nature and God… I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles."

- Anne Frank

"There is a sacredness in tears. They are not a 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

"As I walked in the woods I felt what I often feel that nothing can befall me in life, no calamity, no disgrace (leaving me my eyes) to which Nature will not offer a sweet consolation."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place."

- Lance Armstrong

"Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off."

- Demi Lovato

"Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup."

- Drake

"I think it's important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase."

- Jennifer Aniston

"Healing means releasing yourself from the past... no matter the circumstances."

- Trish Blackwell

"Let go and allow yourself to be flooded with love. You can let go of the pattern now that you truly understand that you're no longer a victim."

- Louise Hay

"Don't be ashamed to weep; 'tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us."

- Brian Jacques

"[My husband, Jon] hated [taking photos in the hospital during the pregnancy loss]. I could tell. It didn’t make sense to him at the time. But I knew I needed to know of this moment forever, the same way I needed to remember us kissing at the end of the aisle, the same way I needed to remember our tears of joy after [our children] Luna and Miles. And I absolutely knew I needed to share this story."

- Chrissy Teigen

"The light in my body broke and the darkness changed me into someone that could heal it."

- Jessica Lakritz

"Everything lost is found again, / In a new form, In a new way. / Everything hurt is healed again, / In a new life, In a new day."

- From “Kore Chant: Spring and Fall Equinox," as written in “The Spiral Dance” by Starhawk

"Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means it no longer controls your life."

"You don’t have to have it all figured out to start healing."

"Healing doesn’t mean forgetting; it means choosing peace over pain."

"Trust the process of healing. It takes time, but it’s worth it."

"Only Jesus can give wholeness to a broken life."

"When suffering a blow of disappointment, take time to heal one’s wounds. One can go on, surely, but without the strength necessary to succeed."

- Unknown

"Some only dream of angels, I held one in my arms."

"A baby gone to Heaven. An Angel picked too soon. A child who’s loved forever, beyond the stars and the moon."