Famous Quotes & Sayings

Kate Chopin

No, I only think you cruel, as I said the other day. Maybe not intentionally cruel; but you seem to be forcing me into disclosures which can result in nothing; as if you would have me bare a wound for the pleasure of looking at it, without the intention or power of healing it.

Kris Carr

When we truly embrace acceptance, that's when our body exhales and can begin healing.

Kris Carr

I was not going to kick back and wait for the unknown. I was going to dive in and become a full-time healing junkie.

Kris Carr

When we’re courageous enough to be with what scares us, we can awaken our intuition and create a new path for healing.

Kris Carr

Love is healing. Love is comforting. Love is holy. Food can be all those things, too.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.

Michael Pollan

He showed the words “chocolate cake” to a group of Americans and recorded their word associations. “Guilt” was the top response. If that strikes you as unexceptional, consider the response of French eaters to the same prompt: “celebration.

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 the Apostle

Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations.

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.

Maya Angelou

I always felt, if I can get to a library, I'll be OK.

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.

Marianne Williamson

Conscious awareness is the source of our healing...Only when you say the truth can the truth set you free. This is not a negative process, but at times it is a difficult process.

Marianne Williamson

Healing works through a kind of detox: things have got to come up in order to be released. That is true of our personal issues, and also our collective issues. We can't just push the darkness down, pour pink paint over it and then pretend it's not there. We have to look at it, accept that it exists and then release it for healing.

Marianne Williamson

Obviously, our political system is profoundly corrupted by, among other things, the influence of money. But, at a deeper level, the current structure is flawed because it looks to citizens for only two things - votes and money. I don't think we will see any healing until citizens are viewed in a whole new way.

Marianne Williamson

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

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.

Mariel Hemingway

Lets try to come to a place of compassion about mental illness, in all its forms, and help each other find healing.

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.