Healing Quotes

"Grief is itself a medicine."

William Cowper

"The pain passes, but the beauty remains."

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

"Rarely, if ever, are any of us healed in isolation. Healing is an act of communion."

bell hooks

"You will lose someone you can't live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news."

Anne Lamott

"The only cure for grief is to grieve."

Earl Grollman

"You don't heal from the loss of a loved one because time passes; you heal because of what you do with the time."

Carol Crandell

"Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable."

Fred Rogers

"He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend."

Henry Taylor

"Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing."

Pema Chödrön

"Let us see to it that the recollection of those whom we have lost becomes a pleasant memory to us."

Seneca

"We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full."

Marcel Proust

"Mourning is not forgetting... It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied and something permanent and valuable recovered and assimilated from the dust."

Margery Allingham

"Humor does not diminish the pain – it makes the space around it get bigger."

Allen Klein

"Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain."

Charlie Chaplin

"Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease."

Hippocrates

"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer."

Dean Koontz

"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

Novalis

"Love cures people – both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it."

Karl Menninger

"Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives."

Louise Hay

"Grace means that all of your mistakes now serve a purpose instead of serving shame."

Brené Brown

"The wound is the place where the Light enters you."

"Let your tears come. Let them water your soul."

Eileen Mayhew

"The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it."

Nicholas Sparks

"Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts."

Charles Dickens

"Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed."

Confucius