Recovery & Healing Quotes

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.

Jesus' own witness of sacrificial love and forgiveness, and his work to heal the sick and care for those in need, represent God's ways and vision for us.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

I have to have a daily, vibrant relationship with Jesus in order to survive that process toward healing.

When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can't provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.

The wish for healing has always been half of health.

True health infuses positive energy in the mind, body and spirit; it is a main focus in my life.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

God is not looking for repayment, but repentance. What heals a broken relationship is sincere love and contrition.

Just as it is fire's nature to burn, it is meditation's nature to heal, to bring peace and uplift you beyond your worldly environment and transport you to a higher plane.

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.

It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.

If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.

Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can't, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.

America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.

In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.

Healing yourself is connected with healing others.

We are learning, too, that the love of beauty is one of Nature's greatest healers.

The single overriding objective in wellness is creating constant personal renewal where we recognize and act on the truth that each day is a miraculous gift, and our job is to untie the ribbons. That's the Law of Esprit: living life with joy.

So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.

I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.

The remedy for life's broken pieces is not classes, workshops or books. Don't try to heal the broken pieces. Just forgive.

The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.

Hope lies in having more faith in the power of God to heal us than in the power of anything to hurt or destroy us. In realizing that as children of God we are bigger than our problems, we have the power at last to confront them.

The results of any traumatic experience, such as abuse, can only be resolved by experiencing, articulating, and judging every facet of the original experience within a process of careful therapeutic disclosure.

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

If I were rewriting 'Love, Medicine & Miracles,' I might consider changing its title to 'The Side Effects of Cancer.' Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one's life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

There's a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.

It wasn't until my girlfriend, photographer Jennifer Rovero, took hundreds of pictures of me as I recovered from my amputations that things started to change. The process was a sort of therapy for me, which Jennifer coined as 'photo therapy.' I grew to see the beauty and strength in myself and my journey through the lens of her camera.

We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.