Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Nhat Hanh

When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself.

Nhat Hanh

The most important thing that we can do for the healing of our world is to hear inside ourselves, the sounds of the earth crying.

Nhat Hanh

One hour of compassionate deep listening can bring about transformation and healing.

Nhat Hanh

Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you.

John Ashbery

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

Kresley Cole

Rydstrom: "To get it right this time."

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.

Margaret Thatcher

A quick cure is a quack cure.

Margaret Cho

I'm a survivor. But I'm also victim, too. Surviving has the connotation that you've been through it, you lived through it and that's wonderful - but a victim is what I was. "Survivor" is the more healing way to look at it.

Paul Stamets

I love a challenge and saving the Planet seems like a good one.

Oscar Wilde

And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal

Lucille Clifton

Tell the truth... maybe just to see clearly, as clearly as possible.

Michael Jackson

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment.

Michael Jackson

My mission is healing, pure and simple.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Her beauty cannot be measured with standards of a colonized mind

Mark Twain

Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to good use.

Mark Epstein

If aspects of the person remain undigested-cut off, denied, projected, rejected, indulged, or otherwise unassimilated-they become the points around which the core forces of greed, hatred and delusion attach themselves.

Mark Epstein

The willingness to face traumas - be they large, small, primitive or fresh - is the key to healing from them. They may never disappear in the way we think they should, but maybe they don’t need to. Trauma is an ineradicable aspect of life. We are human as a result of it, not in spite of it.

Masanobu Fukuoka

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

Martha Beck

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

Mehmet Oz

There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.

Marianne Williamson

What is happening in politics today is a similar process to what happened in the medical world a few decades ago: realizing that there's more to healing than just addressing symptoms. Primary paradigm when it comes to dealing with political and social disease is allopathic: Pass a law, lock someone up, engage in warfare. And the state of the world today makes it clear that such allopathic measures have not exactly brought peace to all.

Marianne Williamson

In the Holy Relationship, it's understood that we all have unhealed places, and that healing is the purpose of our being with another person. We don't hide our weaknesses, but rather we understand that the relationship is a context for healing through mutual forgiveness.

Marianne Williamson

Sometimes a miracle is a change in material conditions, such as physical healing. At other times, it is a psychological or emotional change.

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.

Christina Hoff Sommers

Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.