Famous Quotes & Sayings

Stephanie Klein

I'd heard it all the time, 'Live in the moment.' But if I did that, I'd weigh more than a dump truck. Losing weight wasn't about the moment at all; it was about having faith in the future. It was about knowing there would be another meal in a few hours.

Stephanie Klein

I already knew to eat clean and listen to my body, to only eat when I was in a calm mental state. Everyone knew. But when you're fat in the head, it's never about knowing the answers. It's about living them.

Viktor E. Frankl

Between stimulus and response is the freedom to choose.

Suzanne Farrell

I loved tests because it was another form of competing, a healthy competition.

Stephen Levine

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

Stephen Levine

It is not for the concept, but for the experience, that we use the term the Beloved. The experience of this enormity we falteringly label divine is unconditioned love. Absolute openness, unbounded mercy and compassion. We use this concept, not to name the unnameable vastness of being-- our greatest joy-- but to acknowledge and claim as our birthright the wonders and healings within.

Stephen Levine

...healing comes not from being loving but from being itself. It is not a case of being clear but of clear being. This healing is not about anything else but being itself. Nothing separate, no edges, nothing to limit healing. Entering, in moments, the realm of pure being, the gateless gate swings open- beyond life and death, our original face shines back at us.

Stephen Levine

To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.

Stephen Levine

Healing comes when we meet our wounded places with compassion.

Starhawk

We need the discipline of magic, of consciousness-change, in order to hear and understand what the earth is saying to us. And listening to the earth, doing the rituals the land asks us for, giving back what we are asked for, will also bring us healing, expanded awareness and intensified life.

Starhawk

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

Sophie Swetchine

In a healthy state of the organism all wounds have a tendency to heal.

Sophie Swetchine

The root of sanctity is sanity. A man must be healthy before he can be holy. We bathe first, and then perfume.

Stacy Keibler

Being healthy and living a healthy lifestyle have always been very important to me.

Thomas Harris

… It is not healing to see your childhood home, but it helps you measure whether you are broken, and how and why, assuming you want to know.

Thomas Jefferson

Health is the requisite after morality

Thomas Adams

Prevention is so much better than healing because it saves the labor of being sick.

Victoria Principal

Unless we keep this planet healthy, everything else is for naught.

Vernon Howard

Healing fails to occur because it is much easier to injure another than to heal oneself.

Vernon Howard

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

Richard Bach

The creative, loving-something life is also the healthy one. There is healing and protection in doing what makes you happy.

Robert Benchley

I am pretty sure that, if you will be quite honest, you will admit that a good rousing sneeze, one that tears open your collar and throws your hair into your eyes, is really one of life's sensational pleasures.

Thornton Wilder

What is essential does not die but clarifies.

Thornton Wilder

For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Thomas Browne

Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.

Thomas S. Monson

Love is the catalyst that causes change. Love is the balm that brings healing to the soul.

Richard M. Nixon

The peace we seek to win is not victory over any other people, but the peace that comes "with healing in its wings;" with compassion for those who have suffered; with understanding for those who have opposed us; with the opportunity for all the peoples of this Earth to choose their own destiny.

Richard M. Nixon

By taking this action, I hope that I will have hastened the start of the healing.

Ricardo Lagos

It's important to see how we can advance in healing wounds.

Rebecca De Mornay

I don't see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don't think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.

Richard Selzer

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

Richard Rohr

You cannot heal what you cannot acknowledge.

Tracy K. Smith

Lizzie Harris's debut collection, Stop Wanting, crafts images and lines of such arresting splendor that I am very often driven to joy at the feats of beauty and healing that language is capable of bringing into being.