Healing Quotes

Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy. 
Sai Baba 

The wish for healing has always been half of health. 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 

Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction. 
Bob Marley 

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares. 
Henri Nouwen 

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. 
Reba McEntire 

We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion. 
Max de Pree 

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. 
Billy Joel 

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. 
Hippocrates 

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. 
Hubert H. Humphrey 

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. 
Marianne Williamson 

Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever. 
Michael W. Smith 

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. 
Marianne Williamson 

A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct. 
Samuel Butler 

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. 
Yoko Ono 

A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it. 
Lindsay Wagner 

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. 
Warren G. Harding 

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' 
W. H. Auden 

Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism. 
Matthew Fox 

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did. 
Ricky Williams 

I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing. 
Duncan Sheik


I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood. 
Susie Bright 

Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. 
Tori Amos 

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 

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution. 
Stanislav Grof 

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place... it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. 
David Hume 

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always. 
Willa Cather 

Evil is the shadow of angel. Just as there are angels of light, support, guidance, healing and defense, so we have experiences of shadow angels. And we have names for them: racism, sexism, homophobia are all demons - but they're not out there. 
Matthew Fox 

Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there's more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important. 
Marianne Williamson 

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming. 
Randall Terry 

Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet; in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die. 
Ivan Illich 

African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It's not a dormant. It's not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations. 
Mos Def 

Healing is a moral thing to do. 
Jay Inslee 

It also called upon traditional people in the Four Directions to strengthen the healing ceremonies and asked people to heed the warnings of Mother Earth. 
Dennis Banks 

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. 
Norman Cousins 

Our supporters support us for one reason, people pray for us for one reason - because of the healing ministry. 
Benny Hinn 

But I'm going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing. 
Benny Hinn 

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. 
Phyllis McGinley 

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem. 
Marilyn Hacker 

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor. 
Jennifer Granholm 

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy. 
Christopher Hitchens


This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
Kenny Loggins 

A lot of victims, for example, have become addicted to alcohol and drugs. It seems to me that the church's healing ministry is going to be enhanced through this in much broader strokes. That's good, it's all positive. 
Roger Mahony 

My book 'Trust Your Heart', which is the story of my life, will be followed by 'Singing Lessons', a memoir of love, loss, hope, and healing, which talks about the death of my son and the hope that has been the aftermath of the healing from that tragedy. 
Judy Collins 

Those people behind the mosque have to respect, have to appreciate and have to defer to the people of New York. The wound is still there. Just because the wound is healing you can't say, 'Let's just go back to where we were pre-9/11. 
Al-Waleed bin Talal 

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word. 
Catherine Drinker Bowen 

Any education that matters is liberal. All the saving truths, all the healing graces that distinguish a good education from a bad one or a full education from a half empty one are contained in that word. 
Alan K. Simpson 

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind. 
Nastassja Kinski 

This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let's get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future. 
Artur Davis 

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. 
Philipus Aureolus Paracelsus 

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are. 
Bernadette Peters 

People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me. 
LaToya Jackson 

I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not. 
Brooke Shields 

I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on. 
Robert Jay Lifton 

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. 
Chris Tucker 

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work. 
Chris Tucker 

I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind. 
Leonard Orr 

There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there's been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought. 
Christine McVie 

We're seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They're not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing. 
Roger Mahony 

The knife of historical relativism... which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing. 
Wilhelm Dilthey 

It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. 
Ricky Skaggs


I tell my brethren in Palestine: be patient and continue your blessed struggle. We did not forget you. We are still healing another wound in the Muslim nation, which is the occupation of our land by the Americans. Your battle and ours are one and the same.
Mohammed Omar 

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.
Anne Wilson Schaef 

Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.
Dennis Banks 

I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
Rodney King 

I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
Jack Irons 

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
Malcolm Fraser 

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
Jerry Cantrell 

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.
Wendell Berry 

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.
Freddie Hubbard 

Humor is healing.
Brad Garrett 

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.
Lucy Stone 

I've experienced several different healing methodologies over the years - counseling, self-help seminars, and I've read a lot - but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.
Lindsay Wagner 

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.
Ricardo Lagos 

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
Ivy Compton-Burnett 

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.
Bill McCartney 

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.
Rebecca De Mornay 

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
Sarah Fielding 

I love sharing my story. It's endlessly healing.
Ben Vereen 

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.
Ekaterina Gordeeva 

Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
James Theodore Bent