Healing Quotes

"you look at me and cry everything hurts i hold you and whisper but everything can heal"

- Rupi Kaur

"Recovery is full of ups and downs. There is no such thing as a linear life."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Healing takes time and asking for help is a courageous step."

- Mariska Hargitay

"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary."

- Fred Rogers

"Understanding why people suffer, how they change, and how to help them live more satisfying and gratifying lives is a fascinating, huge, and important undertaking."

- Sommers-Flanagan & Sommers-Flanagan

"We know from experience and the growing body of supportive literature […] that the therapeutic relationship a counselor forms with each client can be the most powerful tool for helping clients change."

- Jeff Cochran and Nancy Cochran

"Counseling involves helping people facilitate uncomplicated, or normal, grief to a healthy adaptation to the tasks of mourning within a reasonable time frame."

- J. William Worden

"Medicine heals doubt as well as medicine."

- Karl Marx

"Medicine cures diseases, but only doctors can cure patients."

- Carl Jung

"My music isn't just music —its medicine."

- Kanye West

"Don't allow your wounds to turn you into a person you are not."

- Paulo Coelho

"Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love."

- Maza Dohta

"When you are in love, and you get hurt, it's like a cut—it will heal, but there will always be a scar."

- Soo Jie

"When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking."

- Arthur Conan Doyle

"A bicycle ride is a flight from sadness."

- James E. Starrs

"Post-Traumatic Stress Injury isn't a disease. It's a wound to the soul that never heals."

- Tom Glenn

"Recovering from PTSD is being fragile and strong at the same time. It's beautiful medley of constantly being broken down and pieced together. I am painting almost done to completion, beautiful but not quite complete."

- Kate J. Tate

"The victims of PTSD often feel morally tainted by their experiences, unable to recover confidence in their own goodness, trapped in a sort of spiritual solitary confinement, looking back at the rest of the world from beyond the barrier of what happened. They find themselves unable to communicate their condition to those who remained at home, resenting civilians for their blind innocence."

- David Brooks

"Instead of saying 'I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues.' I say 'I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over."

- Horacio Jones

"There is no timestamp on trauma. There isn't a formula that you can insert yourself into to get from horror to healed. Be patient. Take up space. Let your journey be the balm."

- Diane Sawyer

"People generally don't suffer high rates of PTSD after natural disasters. Instead, people suffer from PTSD after moral atrocities. Soldiers who've endured the depraved world of combat experience their own symptoms. Trauma is an expulsive cataclysm of the soul."

- David Brooks

"Healing from trauma can also mean strength and joy. The goal of healing is not a papering-over of changes in an effort to preserve or present things as normal. It is to acknowledge and wear your new life –warts, wisdom, and all –with courage."

- Catherine Woodiwiss

"Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose."

- Michelle Rosenthall

"Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life."

- Leon Brown

"When you can tell your story and it doesn't make you cry, you know you have healed."

- Karen Salmansohn

"Trauma is hell on earth. Trauma resolved is a gift from the gods."

- Peter A. Levine

"People start to heal the moment they feel heard."

- Cheryl Richardson

"You're safe. You can stop being ashamed of your past. You can stop creating stories that everyone will leave you. Believe in your ability to get through anything. Look how far you've come. You're safe now."

- Dr. Nicole LePera

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

- Akshay Dubey

"The internal and external bruises will fade away. Carry on in strength."

- Mitta Xinindlu