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Quotations about Healing
O, there are moments when we half forget
The rough, harsh grating of the file of Time;
And I believe that angels come down yet
And walk with us, as in the Eden clime;
Binding the heart, away from woe and strife,
With leaves of healing from the Tree of Life.
~Alice Carey, "Harvest Time," c.1847
A great part of health is the desiring of health. And a good sign of healing, to be willing to heal. ~La Celestina, 1499, translated from Spanish
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half used minds; for it is the mind that makes the body: that is my secret, and the secret of all true healers. ~Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)
In a healthy state of the organism, all wounds have a tendency to heal. ~Madame Swetchine, translated by Harriet W. Preston
And a woman spoke, saying, Tell us of Pain.
And he said:
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.
And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of life, your pain would not seem less wondrous than your joy;
And you would accept the seasons of your heart, even as you have always accepted the seasons that pass over your fields.
And you would watch with serenity through the winters of your grief.
Much of your pain is self-chosen.
It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
Therefore trust the physician, and drink his remedy in silence and tranquillity... ~Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931), The Prophet
Wellness is the art of healing before you're sick. ~Terri Guillemets
The Sussex lanes were very lovely in the autumn. I started going for long lone country walks among the spendthrift gold and glory of the year-end, giving myself up to the earth-scents and the sky-winds and all the magic of the countryside which is ordained for the healing of the soul. ~Monica Baldwin, I Leap Over the Wall: Contrasts and Impressions After Twenty-Eight Years in a Convent
Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike. ~John Muir, The Yosemite
Let the body receive an injury less than mortal, and what follows? Before the swiftest foot can bring the physician, Nature has begun her healing work. The physician is at best only her humble assistant. Medical science is learning more and more to trust to the vis medicatrix Naturæ—the healing power of Nature. It is she, whom we call stern and merciless, that knits together the broken bone that no artificer on earth could mend. It is she that deftly works out of the system the injurious matter which we in our ignorance have forced upon it. She is not only kind when we obey her: she repairs our mistakes and heals the hurts we have done ourselves. Is not this the very counterpart of what the Divine Physician does for our spirits? ~George S. Merriam
Up at dawn, the dewy freshness of the hour, the morning rapture of the birds, the daily miracle of sunrise, set her heart in tune, and gave her Nature's most healing balm. ~Louisa May Alcott, "In the Strawberry Bed," Work: A Story of Experience, 1873
How poor are they that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~William Shakespeare, Othello, c.1604 [II, 3, Iago]
The wish for healing has ever been the half of health. ~Seneca, translated by Frank Justus Miller, 1917
When our soul has been cast down, has never an invisible voice whispered, "There is lifting up"? Have not gales and breezes of sweet and healing thought been wafted over us, as if an angel had shaken from his wings the odors of paradise? ~Harriet Beecher Stowe
It's not all about healing yourself — it's just as importantly about letting yourself heal. ~Terri Guillemets
Only one must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps. ~Georg Groddeck, M.D. (1866–1934), Das Buch vom Es, 1923, English translation The Book of the It, 1928
...as healing as a mommy kiss... ~Terri Guillemets
...wounds of the spirit... are most gently soothed and made whole by the passing years. Under the old scars flows again the calm, healthful tide of life.... Under a great loss the heart impetuously cries that it can never be happy again, and perhaps in its desperation says that it wishes never to be comforted. But though angels do not fly down to open the grave and restore the lost, the days and months come as angels with healing in their wings. Under their touch aching regret passes into tender memory; into hands that were empty new joys are softly pressed; and the heart that was like the trees stripped of its leaves and beaten by winter's tempests is clothed again with the green of spring. ~George S. Merriam
The mind spells 'healing'
...for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego. ~C. G. Jung
nourish the nighttime healing fairies
with gratitude and faith and sleep
~Terri Guillemets
..."Healing,"
Papa would tell me,
"is not a science,
but the intuitive art
of wooing Nature..."
~W. H. Auden, "The Art of Healing," In Memoriam David Protetch, M.D., 1969
It's no coincidence that four of the six letters in health are "heal." ~Terri Guillemets
I have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective healing is not found at a doctor's office or a hospital, but rather from inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are capable of both boosting and blocking that ability. ~Dr. Daju Suzanne Friedman, Heal Yourself with Qigong
The sun heals.
Laughter heals.
Love, breathing, touch, beauty,
Nature, warmth, kinship
Heal, if you will let them
Be part of your medicine.
~Terri Guillemets
There's no expiration date on the process of healing. ~Lucifer, "Vegas with Some Radish," 2017, written by Ildy Modrovich and Sheri Elwood [S3, E6, Linda Martin]
It is said that the body will heal itself of many things, if we will allow it to do so and not overburden it with remedies — the same is true of the soul and the heart. ~Terri Guillemets
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