Here, we’ve compiled a list of the best Healing Quotes from famous authors such as Carli Lloyd, Thich Nhat Hanh, Dean Ornish, Rickey Medlocke, Laura Dern. Let’s look at these pieces of wisdom. We definitely have something to learn from them!
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It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.
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Intimacy is healing.
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Music is a healing tool.
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It excites me to go to a movie and be reminded that I’m human, and I’m filled with opposites, and I’m built with flaws. Part of growth and healing is recognizing that.
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There’s something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it’s not something that you get over. I don’t believe there’s a healing process.
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I love the healing power of crystals.
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Laughter is this amazing and healing thing.
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Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.
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Trying to suppress or eradicate symptoms on the physical level can be extremely important, but there’s more to healing than that; dealing with psychological, emotional and spiritual issues involved in treating sickness is equally important.
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The birth of the baby Jesus stands as the most significant event in all history, because it has meant the pouring into a sick world the healing medicine of love which has transformed all manner of hearts for almost two thousand years.
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The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.
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I’ve been writing books because it’s been my way of dealing with the demons. The act of sitting down and writing the books down has started healing process that’s been long overdue.
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I just refer to myself as being Spirit, Mind and Body like everybody else and working toward the mastery of my natural divinity and the healing of my emotional mind.
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The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.
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I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
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A lot of healing is in the mind. I’m not talking about serious illnesses like cancer. I’m talking about ordinary broken bones. Healing begins in the head. You have to convince yourself you can do it.
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I realize I will always be the poster child for police brutality, but I can try to use that as a positive force for healing and restraint.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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My sister had some ailment and convulsions that she suffered from, and she had been sent to some place to go and get healed there. She was brought back and prayed for by those people. She recovered; in fact, she grew to be an evangelist in her own right, healing people and traveling around.
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I believe well-designed places and objects can actually improve healing, while poor design can inhibit it.
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When people are feeling a bunch of feelings or there’s something happening within the world, a lot of people get healing through music, or a lot of people’s go-to entertainment to find some answers or understand something.
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Humor is very healing.
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When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the church… When people preach that all you need is Jesus, they cut you and I off from one of the greatest sources of healing, which is the body of Christ. Don’t go it alone – you won’t make it.
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‘Psychotherapy’ is a private, confidential conversation that has nothing to do with illness, medicine, or healing.
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I fight to prioritize black mothers and black children because we deserve to live in a world where our healing is centered and our lives are treated with dignity, respect, and care.
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It’s up to me to empower myself and realize how incredibly worthy I am of healing.
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Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I’d smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.
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When a person listens to a good song, and they can look out at the world and their lives and see the dark and the light, the negative and the positive, all the different elements, all come together in one holistic poem, that is a very healing and very reductive thing, and that’s what my music is about.
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There were a lot of bad feelings when Lindsey first left the band. But there’s been a lot of healing going on, growing up, maturing. The bond is a great deal stronger than what we first thought.
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We’ve been addicted to incarceration as a primary response for decades, whether or not it’s a good use of resources, whether or not it’s humane, whether or not it is effective at keeping us safe, rehabilitating or healing victims.
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I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
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I never quite envisioned myself a proper doctor under that white coat, but I was interested in the idea of healing and in the psychological dimension rather early on.
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Righteousness and faith certainly are instrumental in healing the sick, deaf, or lame – if such healing accomplishes God’s purposes and is in accordance with His will. Thus, even with strong faith, many mountains will not be moved. And not all of the sick and infirm will be healed.
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Being able to give someone a hug from the heart, it’s healing. It’s healing for yourself and healing for others, and we need a lot of that.
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I made an album of healing music called ‘Grace and Gratitude’ that came from my soul.
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When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it’s the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.
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Apart from its famous healing properties, manuka has a strong, woody flavour.
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I looked at Willie Nelson and Farm Aid as a role model; they do it every year, and it draws people together, and drawing people together where they realize they’re not alone, to me, is strategic in healing.
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If we can make the correct diagnosis, the healing can begin. If we can’t, both our personal health and our economy are doomed.
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Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there’s the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there’s the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.
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You take a tube of the patient’s blood, extracting platelet-rich plasma, or PRP, from it. It’s yellow in color, but it does all kinds of good things for the body: It speeds up healing, fills out the face. I spray it into wounds and use it in rhinoplasty.
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Music is very therapeutic and healing, and I hit it from all angles.
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All of my gifts really come from a place of healing. I have homemade essential oils with a diffuser, which I’ve given to all my kids.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I’m always happy when people choose to get another dog because it’s a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.
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We’re seeing a much larger ministry here for the general community. Not just Catholics, but others are calling us too. They’re not looking for lawyers or suing their grandfathers, but counseling and healing.
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On really hot days, I try to motivate friends and family to come into the pool for an aqua jogging session which I teach. Aqua jogging is a great way to avoid the impact of regular walking or jogging on land. This is especially beneficial for those who have joint pain or who are healing from an injury.
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This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let’s get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
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As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
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If the brain expects that a treatment will work, it sends healing chemicals into the bloodstream, which facilitates that. And the opposite is equally true and equally powerful: When the brain expects that a therapy will not work, it doesn’t. It’s called the ‘nocebo’ effect.
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I’ve been through a lot of heartache in my day, and you turn to music to prop yourself up. It’s a healing thing, and it’s a powerful, powerful, beautiful thing.
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It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn’t happen on our schedule. It doesn’t have a clock or a calendar.
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This time, instead of moving oceans and healing planets, let’s get our bills in order and pay down the debt so we control our own future.
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Healing is a moral thing to do.
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Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.
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I want to be a conduit for healing.
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It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‘Freedom from Bad Debt’ can get you started.
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Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
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When death is imminent and dying patients find their suffering unbearable, then the physician’s role should shift from healing to relieving suffering in accord with the patient’s wishes.
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As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.
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You want comedic themes to be recogniseable life truths that we all battle with, and with that comes the healing properties of comedy.
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Everybody has losses – it’s unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.
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I mix all different oils – my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I’m really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose – I think everyone should carry it.
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My grandfather, a devout Christian, had the gift of healing.
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I believe that education should be about healing the earth and dealing with the crises that we are in.
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In church, the music is for everyone. People are singing off tune, loud; they’re not ashamed – it’s for their healing. That’s kind of just what I strive for, that feeling.
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The body is both a temple and a perfect machine. Our bodies have within them a healing potential, and we nourish this potential with the pure and simple foods found in nature.
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I think, in general, medicine in the 21st century will switch from healing the sick to upgrading the healthy… If you find ways to repair the memory damaged by Alzheimer’s disease or dementia and so forth, it is very likely that the same methods could be used to upgrade the memory of completely healthy people.
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I’ve met a ton of new people who have colitis or Crohn’s. Talking to them has been probably the most healing thing: to hear other people’s attitudes on how they deal with their disease and how they stay positive.
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The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.
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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it’s any good, it has a healing quality – a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
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A physician’s physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric’s divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I’m focusing on healing lives and teaching people that they can heal – giving them tools to heal.
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I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world.
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Bernard Tyson, CEO of Kaiser Permanente, sees technology as an augmentation to current healing tools – but not a replacement for human kindness, an integral part of healthcare.
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Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?
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Animals have a much better attitude to life and death than we do. They know when their time has come. We are the ones that suffer when they pass, but it’s a healing kind of grief that enables us to deal with other griefs that are not so easy to grab hold of.
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Because I’m a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it’s clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won’t heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.
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I’ve held a lot of pity parties for myself. There was a time when I never wanted to face the public again. I never wanted to face the press again. But God gave me healing gifts.
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As the weeks went on, I realized there was an important role comedy would play in healing the tragedies of September 11. Comedy can help people cope, and many people were coming to the clubs to laugh out the stress.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.
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The five patients in ‘Rethinking Cancer’ share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.
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Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
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I kind of have this sense of mission now when we talk about success: I’d really like Whole Foods to contribute to the healing of America, and the success of that may be measured in decades rather than in months, but I think we’re on the way to doing it.
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I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.
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I believe in God, Nature, Magic, and the spiritual healing of all holistic properties.
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Music is so healing. I hope everybody takes the time to experiment with what music they listen to, it can be life-changing.
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I really want to go to school for herbalism. Healing plants – that’s a really big passion for me.
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A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
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I want the women I work with to find the entry point to where their healing is.
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Along with enough sleep and taking proper supplements, I steam – in my steam shower. I find it’s very healing, more than just your typical ‘tea and honey.’
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The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul.
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When I was a teenager, I used to love the Bronte books, ‘Wuthering Heights’ and ‘Jane Eyre.’ In those books, the women do usually manage to heal the men, but in life, I’ve found it’s often the woman gets wounded. Instead of healing a man, she gets affected by his cruelty.
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Trauma happens in relationships, so it can only be healed in relationships. Art can’t provide healing. It can be cathartic and therapeutic but a relationship is a three-part journey.
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I mix all different oils – my bathroom at home is littered with oils; I’m really into natural beauty and natural healing. Peppermint is really good if you put it on your stomach for a tummy ache; lavender is kind of all-purpose – I think everyone should carry it.
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‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.’
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Thankfully, forgiveness, and the healing it brings in its wake, has nothing to do with ‘deserve.’
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I hope this will help new moms not feel alone or desperate, and that there is no shame in their feelings. PPD is out of their control, but the treatment and healing process is not.
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Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
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No Rain, No Flowers’ is an inside look into my journey of healing and growth.
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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.
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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.
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The trauma of South Asian people escapes the confines of our own times. We’re not just healing from what’s been inflicted onto us as children… it is generations of pain embedded into our souls.
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‘I Will Not Be Broken’ has really become very healing for me. Any time you go through a cataclysmic event… it’s going to inform the richness that you sing from… The experiences of life make all your emotions, I think, deeper.
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Time begins the healing process of wounds cut deeply by oppression. We soothe ourselves with the salve of attempted indifference, accepting the false pattern set up by the horrible restriction of Jim Crow laws.
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I’ve been able to dig deeper into awareness of my own sinfulness, and take baby steps toward spiritual healing. I’m able to worship in an ancient communion full of awesome beauty, one that is now being blessed with quiet revival.
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I think of myself as a healing artist.
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How do we transform loss? … Time’s healing balm is essentially a hoax.
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Anything that takes you out of the context of being separate is healing. Anything that takes you out of the context of separateness is intimacy.
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the central story of the European Union.
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There was no market for poetry about trauma, abuse, loss, love, and healing through the lens of a Punjabi-Sikh immigrant woman.
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For kids who are struggling, who are of faith, just reconciling yourself to the fact that God loves you, accepts you for who you are, is a big step in the healing, especially when your biological family is unaccepting of you.
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Violence begets violence, and hate begets hate. Both hate and violence beget a society that harms, and makes impossible the healing necessary for us to reach our full potential.
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For black and brown people, caring for ourselves and each other is not a neutral act. It is a necessary and radical part of the struggle to create a more just society. Our healing and survival are essential to the fight.
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Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
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I still believe that music is healing to some extent.
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I think a good comedian was probably bullied a little bit. Probably felt doughy and oblong and rhombus-shaped and strange and a little bit of an outsider, and then learned the healing qualities of comedy.
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Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.
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I began researching natural healing, which is how I came to change my diet. Overnight, I gave up refined sugar, gluten, dairy, anything processed or refined, and meat.
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I’m Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it’s here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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Stabilizing the euro is one thing, healing the culture that surrounds it is another. A world in which material values are everything and spiritual values nothing is neither a stable state nor a good society. The time has come for us to recover the Judeo-Christian ethic of human dignity in the image of God.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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Nothing is so healing as the human touch.
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Not much has been written about the Nereids of modern Greece. Wherever there is a warm, healing stream they believe that it flows from the breasts of the Nereids.
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The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
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We use a term called ’empowerment through empathy.’ And ‘Me Too’ is so powerful, because somebody had said it to me – right? – and it changed the trajectory of my healing process once I heard that.
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People wonder why a man and woman can’t be friends after being in love. It is because it’s very tough to look beyond the hurt and try to find a common ground to be friends. It’s it like a healing wound.
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And the thing about healing is sometimes you feel like you’re making daily progress, and then, from nowhere, your legs get taken out, and you feel like you start again.
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Our food pyramid, the kind of diet that is constantly promoted, is completely warped. It’s not based around anything to do with healing your body.
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Humor is healing.
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God put me on this earth to bring souls back to the Kingdom of God. You don’t need to pray ten times a day – you just need hope. My music is going to stop war; it’s the healing music. I see myself in Brazil, in Syria, in Darfur, and places where they really need hope.
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There’s something healing about tears.
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Music should be truthful and real, but it should also be healing and uplifting.
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I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
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It’s been my desire to support efforts to aim at healing the relationship between law enforcement and the community.
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When I walk on stage, it’s the ‘healing floor.’ No matter how bad I’m hurting, I get out there and do it.
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My dad studies and practices homeopathy and Ayurveda medicine. He’s a strong believer in both honey and milk as forms of healing. Honey is the one food that does not die. It does not expire. Growing up, he’d always be mixing up almonds or turmeric or gram flower with milk to cure a cough or a cold.
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But in my weakness, my God is strong. When I was reckless, His reckless love chased me down and brought healing that I never experienced.
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I want survivors to know that healing is possible.
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Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.
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I think music is the highest form of healing.
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I’m creating art that can be healing. Art that can make you feel like you’re not alone, like you’re not an outsider. Art that is useful.
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I think the funny thing about acting for me – and I hold it in a very holy, spiritual way – not to be overly fundamentalist about it, but it’s that important to me – is that it is an ancient healing art.
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Human beings are partners of the Almighty in bringing life into the world, and we are his partners also in healing.
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I’ve been really consistent throughout the campaign and since I won that I want to prioritize victims rights and I want to prioritize healing.
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Right after any kind of procedure you want to be surrounded by love and you need good healing vibes and positive energy around you.
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There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.
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You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.
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We see what music can do for people. Hell, we see what music does for us! When you see thousands of people out in front of you, it’s fixing their lives. It’s helping. It’s healing. It’s bigger than the inconvenience of jealousy or emotional storm clouds.
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There is so much strife and tension in the world that I find the silent world of paintings from the past both hopeful and healing.
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By healing the internal issues that we can heal as a people, our children don’t have to suffer the same agony and pain that we put each other through.
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In the midst of the sense of tragedy or loss, sometimes laughter is not only healing, it’s a way of experiencing the person that you’ve lost again.
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But I’m going to focus on salvation as well as physical healing.
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I think there’s no greater healing power than music.
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Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that’s because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.
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If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.
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If you have suffered from trauma, one of the most healing things that can happen to you is being seen. Being seen doesn’t have to mean that someone actually lays their eyes on you, although that certainly helps.
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Making people laugh is giving, and it’s healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It’s a good thing. That’s why I want to work.
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In the aftermath of any war or genocide, healing and reconciliation are ultimate aspirations.
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In this 21st century world, some of our country’s most significant exports and imports extend beyond goods and services: They also include innovation, knowledge, discovery, and healing.
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Caregivers need humor not only for the healing aspect but also to lift our spirits and inspire us to keep doing what we are doing.
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
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I’ve been actively doing a lot of courses and research into healing modalities, alternative therapies, science, physics and metaphysics.
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Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.
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I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.
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Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.
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There’s a deeper level of healing that needs to happen for the world in general. There’s a mass of people who are broken.
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I don’t know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.
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Every essential oil has a healing purpose, so I think it’s a great gift because it’s something that elevates your mood and your health.
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It’s interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that – he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.
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In novels, and American novels in particular, it’s not just about redemption, it’s about forward movement and healing oneself. Americans are very big on getting better.
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All of us use art and literature as an escape from time to time, but if it’s any good, it has a healing quality – a quality that enlarges our human spirits.
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Though moral axioms to guide the conduct of the practitioner have existed since the beginnings of the profession of healing, Western doctors are most likely to view the Hippocratic Oath of approximately two-and-a-half millennia ago as the first codified set of statements to which they can look for guidance.
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To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.
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Music is a wonderful way of healing and helping get through things.
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Awareness is the first step in healing.
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It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.
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There is a lot of healing going on. Really! More people are vegetarians, more are in the green movement, more of us are tearing down the old paradigms and embracing same-sex marriage, single motherhood, men raising babies.
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I think sports is part of the healing process for society.
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For a number of years, I struggled and put distance between God and me. But He was faithful and patient and provided gradual healing and strength.
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I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music.
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What ‘Short Term 12’ did was it gave me the confidence to explore my intuition more. The healing process that came for me for making that movie and then sharing it with people – I was able to see, first hand, that movies can have a healing power and they can teach us things.
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African art is functional, it serves a purpose. It’s not a dormant. It’s not a means to collect the largest cheering section. It should be healing, a source a joy. Spreading positive vibrations.
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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.
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The knife of historical relativism… which has cut to pieces all metaphysics and religion must also bring about healing.
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The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it’s incredibly healing.
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Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what’s causing the problem.
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I’m a fan of homeopathy, acupuncture and spiritual healing. In Australia, this is not weird, but when I arrived in the U.K., everyone thought I was a freak.
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‘E.T.’ was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.
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We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life.
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To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up.
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Well the beauty of ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life’ is that men are in every show. To our surprise, some of the deepest healing demonstrations have been with the men – the sons, the fathers, the husbands – because they agree to participate with the wife or the daughter or whatever it is we are looking at, and it is there.
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It’s very healing to me to be a very present mother. I hope that it’s also good for her. But it’s definitely good for me.
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Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.
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Violence begets violence, and hate begets hate. Both hate and violence beget a society that harms, and makes impossible the healing necessary for us to reach our full potential.
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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing… not healing, not curing… that is a friend who cares.
