Healing Quotes

"Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression."

- Dodie Smith

"Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of."

- Emmylou Harris

"Animals help you feel deeper, they open your heart to its true potential. They heal you, and love you unconditionally."

- Angie karan

"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

"Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us."

- David Richo

"Emotional pain is not something that should be hidden away and never spoken about. There is truth in your pain, there is growth in your pain, but only if it’s first brought out into the open."

- Steven Aitchison

"I cannot stand the words ‘Get over it’. All of us are under such pressure to put our problems in the past tense. Slow down. Don’t allow others to hurry your healing. It is a process, one that may take years, occasionally, even a lifetime – and that’s OK."

- Beau Taplin

"I've often said there is nothing better for a man's inside than the outside of the horse."

- Ronald Reagan

"Art washes away from the sould the dust of everyday life."

- Pablo Picasso

"The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls."

- Pablo Picasso

"I am an angel. I was sent here from God to heal."

- Kevin Hart

"What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit."

- John Updike

"Trauma often shatters belief systems and robs people of their sense of meaning. In so doing, it forces people to put the pieces back together, [...] rebuilding beautifully those parts of their lives and life stories that they could never have torn down voluntarily."

- Haidt

"In general, the ability to make sense of tragedy and then find benefit in it is the key that unlocks posttraumatic growth."

- Haidt

"Pain travels through families until someone is willing to feel it."

- Stephi Wagner

"Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation."

- Graham Greene

"Everyone may agree upon the diagnosis, but not everyone may consent to the therapy. Indeed, for healing, things have to be sacrificed at times and separation or loss might always be heartbreak and leave scars of remorse or regret. ("Sorrow")"

- Erik Pevernagie

"It's difficult. I take a low dose of lithium nightly. I take an antidepressant for my darkness because prayer isn't enough. My therapist hears confession twice a month, my shrink delivers the host, and I can stand in the woods and see the world spark."

- David Lovelace

"First, the physiological symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder have been brought within manageable limits. Second, the person is able to bear the feelings associated with traumatic memories. Third, the person has authority over her memories; she can elect both to remember the trauma and to put memory aside. Fourth, the memory of the traumatic event is a coherent narrative, linked with feeling. Fifth, the person's damaged self-esteem has been restored. Sixth, the person's important relationships have been reestablished. Seventh and finally, the person has reconstructed a coherent system of meaning and belief that encompasses the story of trauma."

- Judith Lewis Herman

"Today I hit rock bottom but didn’t busy myself with activity to take my mind off it, like I usually do. I allowed myself to sink as deep as possible. It’s like an infection: let it run its course and be done with it. Rising, I felt cleansed."

- Larry Godwin

"A smile cures the wounding of a frown."

- William Shakespeare

"Smile, it’s free therapy."

- Douglas Horton

"Never a lip is curved with pain that can't be kissed into smiles again."

- Bret Harte

"Of all the medicines in the inner life, a smile is by far the best medicine."

- Sri Chinmoy

"The physician’s highest calling, his only calling, is to make sick people healthy – to heal, as it is termed."

- Samuel Hahnemann

"Healing happens when individual hearts combine forces to beat as one at the center of a family."

"Name is to tame it."

"Feel it to heal it"

"Put the rage on the page"

"The presence of the doctor is the beginning of the cure."