Life will never run out of challenges to hurl our way. Sometimes, these challenges give us wounds, may it be emotional, mental, or physical. No matter how strong we think we are, that doesn’t mean we’re invulnerable.
Healing can be a slow process, or it can be a fast one. That depends entirely on how deeply we’re wounded. Either way, healing is a journey of recovery and, sometimes, even forgiveness if someone in our lives caused that wound. At times, asking for help can also lead to the path of healing.
Take comfort at the thought that all wounds heal through some of the positive healing quotes and sayings we have collected.
1. “The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.” — Sarah Fielding
2. “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.” — Kenny Loggins
3. “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” — Marcel Proust
4. “Humor is healing.” — Brad Garrett
5. “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” — Hippocrates
6. “You just don’t heal that easy unless you’re young.” — Sugar Ray Leonard
7. “If we don’t heal our own hood, who will?” — Nelly
8. “Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.” — Martha Beck
9. “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.” — Ed Sullivan
10. “In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson
11. “Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.” — Nastassja Kinski
12. “A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.” — Jessamyn West
13. “To heal from the inside out is the key.” — Wynonna Judd
14. “I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.” — Susie Bright
15. “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.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett
16. “Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.” — Jerry Cantrell
17. “You can heal your body with food.” — Stacy Keibler
18. “Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.” — Barbara Deming
19. “I don’t see it as a form of healing, because if you have wounds that are bleeding I don’t think acting will ever get them to stop. But I find acting is a form of illumination.” — Rebecca De Mornay
20. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” — Novalis
21. “Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.” — Blaise Pascal
22. “Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” — Michael W. Smith
23. “Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.” — Stanislav Grof
24. “There are hurts so deep that one cannot reach them or heal them with words.” — Kate Seredy
25. “I think that I find a lot of my healing out in the world.” — Amanda Lindhout
26. “Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.” — Bernadette Peters
27. “The soul is healed by being with children.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
28. “This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.” — Francis Bacon
29. “There’s a lot of bitterness, there’s a lot of anger out there. We all have to work hard to heal those wounds.” — Allen Boyd
30. “So, we have choice, and sometimes it seems very hard, but the best way to heal physically or emotionally is to keep positive.” — Petra Nemcova
31. “To have gone through so much work to heal myself and have my mother not acknowledge in any way that she was sorry for what had happened to me, broke my heart.” — Anne Heche
32. “Even the people who come our way look upon us in amazement, that we run only for the healing of Mother Earth.” — Dennis Banks
33. “Time heals all wounds, unless you pick at them.” — Shaun Alexander
34. “Beauty saves. Beauty heals. Beauty motivates. Beauty unites. Beauty returns us to our origins, and here lies the ultimate act of saving, of healing, of overcoming dualism.” — Matthew Fox
35. “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.” — Cat Stevens
36. “Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.” — Michael W. Smith
37. “Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.” — Karl Marx
38. “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.” — David Hume
39. “You can’t be a victim and heal.” — A. J. Langer
40. “If you will come back and make that pledge, God will heal your heart tonight.” — Benny Hinn
41. “There is not a formula for the way that God heals. There’s not a timetable.” — Amy Grant
42. “Live your life fom your heart. Share from your heart. And your story will touch and heal people’s souls.” — Melody Beattie
43. “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” — Hippocrates
44. “I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.” Duncan Sheik
45. “Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where nature may heal and give strength to body and soul.” — John Muir
46. “Music became a healer for me.” — Eric Clapton
47. “Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.” — Harold Washington
48. “Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.” — Sai Baba
49. “I love sharing my story. It’s endlessly healing.” — Ben Vereen
50. “Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I’ll be ready.” — Patrick Ewing
51. “Protesting is good, but healing is better. We need to see America heal.” — Alveda King
52. “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.” — Billy Joel
53. “I think that’s one of the most important gifts we have in television – the ability to heal through laughter.” — Soleil Moon Frye
54. “Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It’s like medicine – very healing.” — Max Irons
55. “There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.” — Anne Wilson Schaef
56. “‘Healing,’ Papa would tell me, ‘is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'” — W. H. Auden
57. “Because when God heals a body, that is temporal; but when God saves a soul, that has eternal importance.” — Benny Hinn
58. “What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.” — Hippocrates
59. “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” — Yoko Ono
60. “The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.” — Paracelsus
61. “Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.” — Lewis B. Smedes
62. “Today is a great day, not only of healing and reconciliation, but also coming together. I’m so glad the whole Little Rock Nine was alive and here to see this.” — Winthrop Rockefeller
63. “For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.” — Catherine Drinker Bowen
64. “The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them.” — Publilius Syrus
65. “What I need to do to heal myself and to be assuring and allay the fears of others and to heal them if they had any heart wounds from something I may have said.” — Mel Gibson
66. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” — Marianne Williamson
67. “When you can’t remember why you’re hurt, that’s when you’re healed.” — Jane Fonda
68. “Healing is a moral thing to do.” — Jay Inslee
69. “We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.” — Mao Tse Tung
70. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” — Hubert H. Humphrey
71. “Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” — Elton John
72. “My heart seems to heal, so that speaks well for my future.” — Alex Trebek
73. “Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” — Tori Amos
