Famous Quotes & Sayings

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

J. K. Rowling

...he put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

J. K. Rowling

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

George Herbert

Take the gentle path.

Jennifer Beals

Giving feels good. It is a form of healing. Not just for you as an individual, but for everyone.

Jeane Kirkpatrick

Words can destroy. What we call each other ultimately becomes what we think of each other, and it matters.

Francis Schaeffer

Humanism is not wrong in its cry for sociological healing, but humanism is not producing it.

Troy Percival

I don't want to get my hopes up too high, but I'm just hoping that Dr. Yocum will tell me that it's healing up to a point where I can start lifting weights. I'm tired of running. That's all I've been doing.

J. R. R. Tolkien

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you enter a new experience, all that requires healing rushes to the surface . . . You have to pause.

Iyanla Vanzant

If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

Iyanla Vanzant

Acknowledgemen t of what you feel, what you know, what you need is the first step toward healing.

Iyanla Vanzant

Healing is the application of love.

Iyanla Vanzant

You're never healing the level you're on. You're always healing the level you came from. For example, you know things today that you didn't know in your first marriage.

Iyanla Vanzant

When you find yourself in a new situation, everything that requires healing is going to rush to the surface.

Iyanla Vanzant

Feminine power is silent, dark, mysterious, healing, nurturing. A woman can walk into a room and control it. She doesn't even have to open her mouth if she knows where her power is.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

Neale Donald Walsch

Healing is the process of accepting all, then choosing best.

Nancy Werlin

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about healing. That it was mysterious. That it took time. And that Lucy was just at the beginning. That a terrible thing had happened - two terrible things, really - but they were now over. And that Lucy would be okay, in the end.

Jorge Luis Borges

From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

John C. Maxwell

Want to impress others? Talk about your successes. Want to impact others? Talk about your failures.

Norman Vincent Peale

Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.

Emily Dickinson

I dwell in possibilities .

It is the certainty that you are about to recover, that brings results, not the hope.

Elayne Boosler

Every time we help an animal, we are healing ourselves, over and over.

Henri Nouwen

The more I think about the human suffering in our world and my desire to offer a healing response, the more I realize how crucial it is not to allow myself to become paralyzed by feelings of helplessness and guilt. More important than ever is to be very faithful to my vocation to do well the few things I am called to do and hold on to the joy and peace they bring me. I must resist the temptation to let the forces of darkness pull me into despair and make me one more of their many victims.

Henri Nouwen

Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, 'How can we hide our wounds?' so we don't have to be embarrassed, but 'How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?' When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.

Hayley Mills

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

Helena Norberg-Hodge

Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the local, the sooner we will begin healing our planet, our communities and ourselves.

Kerry Washington

I'd figure out ways to use role-playing in the healing of people.

Ornette Coleman

Music has many uses and I think the most perfected use that music has is one of a healing quality.

Merle Shain

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

Melody Beattie

Seek healing, a refilling of energy and spirit, as soon as you see that you need it. You don't have to push yourself to give, do, or perform when what your body, mind, soul and emotions need is to heal.