Healing Quotes

"The part can never be well unless the whole is well."

"It is part of the cure to wish to be cured."

Seneca

"The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."

"The miserable have no other medicine but only hope."

"Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is."

Christiaan Barnard

"The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning."

Lewis Thomas

"The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

"Nature alone cures... what nursing has to do is to put the patient in the best condition for nature to act upon him."

Florence Nightingale

"Humor is an antidote to all ills."

Patch Adams

"Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic."

Norman Cousins

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

Karl Menninger

"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow?"

"The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."

Leo Tolstoy

"Vain is the word of a philosopher which does not heal any suffering of man."

Epicurus

"Let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."

"The deeper that sorrow carves into your being, the more joy you can contain."

Kahlil Gibran

"The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places."

"There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in."

Leonard Cohen

"And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive... When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about."

Haruki Murakami

"Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished."

"To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."

"Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face."

Victor Hugo

"At times, our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us."

Albert Schweitzer

"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation."

Audre Lorde

"I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity."

Billy Joel