Quotes about Healing

Forgiveness is the economy of the heart.…forgiveness saves the expense of anger, the cost of hatred, the waste of spirits.

For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.

God's job is not to make sick people healthy. That's the doctor's job. God's job is to make sick people brave.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

As the Persian poet Rumi once wrote, 'Light enters at the place of the wound.

When you have been hurt by life, it may be hard to keep that in mind. When you are standing very close to a large object, all you can see is the object. Only by stepping back from it can you also see the rest of its setting around it. When we are stunned by some tragedy, we can only see and feel the tragedy. Only with time and distance can we see the tragedy in the context of a whole life and a whole world.

Forgiveness is a favor we do for ourselves, not a favor we do to the other party.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

Don't hold to anger, hurt or pain. They steal your energy and keep you from love.

You don't really get over it. It is such a great loss," Jane said. "I guess the depth of our grief is a reminder of the depth of our love.

He had said that forgiveness is how we unchain ourselves from the past. We

Facing our grief is essential to combatting and overcoming our despair and powerlessness. The elders taught her that grief is not something to avoid or to be afraid of. And that if we come together and share our sadness, it can be healing." "I absolutely agree," Jane said. "It's really important for us to confront our grief and get over our feelings of helplessness and hopelessness—our very survival