Quotes about Healing

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.

They meet in church basements and offer bandages to those wounded by the shrapnel of exploding families.

But some people can't tell where it hurts. They can't calm down. They can't ever stop howling.

Second-hand American was spreading over him in patches, like mange or lichen. He was infested, garbled, and I couldn't help him: it would take such time to heal, unearth him, scrape down to where he was true.

She stood for a long time, breathing in and breathing in, the scent of the trees and dogs and night flowers and water, because this was the best thing, it was what she wanted, to be outside in the night by herself. She wasn't sick any longer.