Quotes about Healing

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

Many readers fail to realize this, but 'The Color Purple' is a theological text. It is about the reclamation of one's original God: the earth and nature.

I don't know if speaking to a therapist is right for everyone.

Performing is my therapy, to become different people onstage.

Work is therapy for the soul.

The greatest gift is the ability to forget - to forget the bad things and focus on the good.

Forgive those who have hurt you.

Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back--and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!

If you stick a knife in my back nine inches and pull it out six inches, there's no progress. If you pull it all the way out that's not progress. Progress is healing the wound that the blow made. And they haven't even pulled the knife out much less heal the wound.

Reject your sense of injury, and the injury itself disappears.

Blessed be those that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Nobody said when.