Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lewis B. Smedes

The moment of grace comes to us in the dynamics of any situation we walk into. It is an opportunity that God sews into the fabric of a routine situation. It is a chance to do something creative, something helpful, something healing, something that makes one unmarked spot in the world better off for our having been there. We catch it if we are people of discernment.

Joanna Newsom

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

Elizabeth George

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Elizabeth Gilbert

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Joyce Meyer

Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowermen t.

Laurell K. Hamilton

One of my favorite things about hanging out with the monsters is the healing. Straight humans seemed to get killed on me a lot. Monsters survived. Let's hear it for the monsters.

Lucy Stone

Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Malcolm Fraser

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.

Malachy McCourt

Once I know I'm an alcoholic then it is my obligation, duty to see what I can do about healing myself.

Mahatma Gandhi

What may appear as the truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. Where there is honest effort, it will be realized that what appeared to be different truths are like the countless and apparently different leaves of the same tree.

Joseph Murphy

The first thing to remember is the dual nature of your mind. The subconscious mind is constantly amenable to the power of suggestion; furthermore the subconscious mind has complete control of the functions, conditions, and sensations of your body. Trust the subconscious mind to heal you. It made your body, and it knows all of its processes and functions. It knows much more than your conscious mind about healing and restoring you to perfect balance.

Joyce Meyer

God's perfect, unconditional love and faithfulness are what brought me through all of the healing, restoration and breakthroughs I desperately needed so I could become what He created me to be!

M. Scott Peck

It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings

M. Scott Peck

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

Maya Angelou

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

Julia Cameron

Once we are willing to accept that anything worth doing might even be worth doing badly, our options widen.

Julia Cameron

The reward for attention is always healing.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

But the healing of the mind is something totally different. That healing gradually takes place if you are with nature, with that orange on the tree, and the blade of grass that pushes through the cement, and the hills covered, hidden, by the clouds.

Jenny McCarthy

Following bio-medical treatment - which is basically changing the diet, giving vitamins and supplements and detoxing the body from metals or candida - and he recovered. And the reason the medical community has such a hard time with this is because we are treating and healing a vaccine injury ... this is truly a revolution.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

It isn't that they can't see the solution. It's that they can't see the problem. They can't see the problem if they are looking in the wrong place. They can't see the problem if they have blinders on - for 'none are so blind as those that will not see'.

Paul Hawken

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Paul Hawken

We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich.

Paul Gauguin

I am a great artist and I know it. It's because I am that I have endured such sufferings.

Patrick Ness

Belief is half of all healing. Belief in the cure, belief in the future that awaits.

Patricia Arquette

The Hope, Love & Healing necklace is the perfect embodiment of what we are trying to bring to Haiti through safe and sustainable housing, sanitation solutions, and water filtration devices.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

We are ourselves our happiness.

Marilyn Ferguson

The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

R. D. Laing

The way out is through the door you came in.

Princess Diana

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.

Nelson Mandela

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

Nhat Hanh

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.

Nhat Hanh

I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.