Famous Quotes & Sayings

Martin Luther

This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified.

Marilyn Hacker

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Theodore Roosevelt

Comparison is the thief of joy.

Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.

Margaret J. Wheatley

I've found that I can only change how I act if I stay aware of my beliefs and assumptions. Thoughts always reveal themselves in behavior.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

Hector Hugh Munro

Find yourself a cup of tea, the teapot is behind you. Now tell me about hundreds of things.

Henry David Thoreau

I stand in awe of my body.

Lisa McMann

And then they kiss. Slowly, gently. Because with the right person, sometimes kissing feels like healing.

John Stuart Mill

Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.

John Robbins

Chiropractic works in harmony with the basic healing forces of the body, whereas the allopathic, western medical establishment doesn't have nearly as holistic a vision.

John Robbins

The joy is that we can take back our bodies, reclaim our health, and restore ourselves to balance. We can take power over what and how we eat. We can rejuvenate and recharge ourselves, bringing healing to the wounds we carry inside us, and bringing to fuller life the wonderful person that each of us can be.

Laurence J. Peter

My problem is I say what I'm thinking before I think what I'm saying.

Lester Bowie

Music is very important. It's important as a tool for learning, it can be a tool for healing, it can be no telling what, as long as we remain free to be able to create the music, to be able to experiment and to really research, and to really get time to develop the music.

Sherry Argov

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Nicolas Cage

More than ever, movies reveal themselves as healing, as helpful, as encouraging, as escapist - anything that makes someone get through their day in these times. It's the best form of entertainment, and it's still arguably the most inexpensive form of entertainment.

Nicholson Baker

I woke up thinking a very pleasant thought. There is lots left in the world to read.

Nora Roberts

Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

Nora Roberts

Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

Nastassja Kinski

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

N. T. Wright

As we are set free by that love from our own pride and fear, our own greed and arrogance, so we are free in our turn to be agents of reconciliation and hope, or healing and love.

N. T. Wright

It is faith that looks up at the creator God and knows him to be the God of love. And it is faith that looks out at the world with the longing to bring that love to bear in healing reconciliation, and hope.

Mariska Hargitay

Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.

Mariska Hargitay

If I can play a little part in the world's healing, and making it a better place than when I came, then I just thank God for that chance.

Mariska Hargitay

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.

May Sarton

... love is healing, even rootless love.

Norman Cousins

The physician knows that his little black bag can carry him only so far and that the body's own healing system is the main resource.

Norman Cousins

The physician's ability to reassure the patient is a major factor in activating the body's own healing system.

John O'Donohue

It is human longing that makes us holy.

John O'Donohue

One of the deepest longings of the human soul is to be seen.

John O'Donohue

Each one of us was sent here for a special destiny.

John O'Donohue

May you see in what you do the beauty of your own soul. May the sacredness of your work bring healing, light and renewal to those Who work with you and to those who see and receive your work. May your work never weary you.

John O'Donohue

No one else has access to the world you carry around within yourself; you are its custodian and entrance. No one else can see the world the way you see it. No one else can feel your life the way you feel it. Thus it is impossible to ever compare two people because each stands on such different ground. When you compare yourself to others, you are inviting envy into your consciousness; it can be a dangerous and destructive guest.