Last Updated on September 6, 2024
People can suffer from all kinds of hurt and pain. There’s pain we can see – and there’s pain we can’t.
What do we do when the hurt we feel isn’t something that’s visible to the eye? How can we help others heal from their afflictions? Is there hope for wounds that seem too deep to mend?
Healing from Life’s Struggles
It’s impossible to go through life without struggle. Sooner or later, you will suffer from hurdles, either of your own doing or through circumstances beyond your control. Sometimes, it will feel as if the entire universe is against you. Nothing seems to be going right – not in your personal life or your career.
However, there are also times when you’re on top of the world yet feel extremely dissatisfied or unhappy. You could be building empires and attending brunches all day, but the minute you head home, you’re slammed by emptiness.
Such feelings are valid, regardless of your situation in life. It’s important to remember that each one of us has our own road and obstacles. Your journey will be different from someone else, despite the similarities. Thus, your recovery will be completely your own. Just because one person was able to heal from their past in just a few months does not mean it will be the same for you.
Take all the time you need. Don’t force it. Do what feels right for you: attend retreats, talk to a friend, write in a journal, pray, take a sabbatical, etc. Understand that there will be ups and downs on the path to healing your heart. You could be convinced that you’re okay one day, but then be a total wreck the next. It’s alright – take it one day at a time.
If you need little reminders on the road towards healing, here are some beautiful healing quotes and sayings.
Beautiful Healing Quotes
1. “Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav
2. “Humor is healing.” – Brad Garrett
3. “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert Humphrey
4. “Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.” – O. Carl Simonton
5. “Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.” – Wendell Berry
6. “The main reason for healing is love.” – Paracelsus
7. “Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.” – Jeanne Achterberg
8. “The greatest barrier to own own healing is not the pain, sorrow or violence inflicted upon us as children. Our greatest hindrance is our ongoing capacity to judge, to criticize, and to bring tremendous harm to ourselves. If we can harden our heart against ourselves and meet our most tender feelings with anger and condemnation, we simultaneously armor our heart against the possibility of gentleness, love and healing.” – Wayne Muller
9. “Healing is the journey. The destination is yourself. The full recognition of all the different aspects of yourself-your joy, your sorrow, your pain, your pleasure-all lead you to the source of who you are. Only by having intimate contact with this source can you experience the fullness of your life. Only by fearlessly looking within can you embrace the landscape of your life and open yourself completely to all the love and compassion that lives inside you.” – Philip Berk
10. “Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates
11. “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta
12. “Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.” –Thich Nhat Hanh
13. “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.” – Marlo Thomas
14. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
15. ”Awareness is the first step in healing.” – Dean Ornish
16. ”Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.” – Ruth Carter Stapleton
17. ”Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller
18. ”Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.” – Phyllis McGinley
19. ”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
20. ”Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.” – Ram Dass
21. ”One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.” – Steve Maraboli
22. ”Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.” – Jack Kornfield
23. ”Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” – Hippocrates
24. ”When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.” – David Orr
25. ”It’s not all about healing yourself; it’s just as importantly about letting yourself heal.” – Terri Guillemets
26. ”Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.” – Georg Feuerstein
27. ”To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” – Stephen Levine
28. ”I have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective healing is not found at a doctor’s office or a hospital, but rather from inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are capable of both boosting and blocking that ability.” – Dr. Daju Suzanne Friedman
29. ”It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing.” – Norman Cousins
30. ”We cannot selectively numb emotions. When we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” –Brené Brown
31. ”Progress and healing involves seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.” – Bryant H. McGill
32. ”Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
33. ”We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.” – Marianne Williamson
34. ”Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.” – Akshay Dubey
35. ”Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus
36. ”There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” – Carl Jung
37. ”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.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
38. ”To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.” – Sylvia Fraser
39. ”It’s not forgetting that heals. It’s remembering.” – Amy Greene
40. ”Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha
41. ”When you really listen to yourself, you can heal yourself.” – Ceanne Derohan
42. ”For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open – into the light, out of the darkness.” – Reba McEntire
43. ”Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.” – Rita Schiano
44. ”All healing is first a healing of the heart.” – Carl Townsend
45. “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
46. “When I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing.” – Rabindranath Tagore
47. ”The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.”- Mooji
48. ”Healing is the application of love.” – Iyanla Vanzant
49. ”The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
50. ”Love is the most important healing power there is.” – Louise Hay
51. “Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.” – Kathy Magliato
52. “Healing requires from us to stop struggling, but to enjoy life more and endure it less.” – Darina Stoyanova
53. “No matter how long it takes to heal…we share the same scars…”
– Daniel Yanez
54. “She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly.” – Nikki Rowe
55. “Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” – Joshua Kai
56. “Healing Follows Forgiveness.” – Pat Bluth
57. “Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you.” – Heather Davis
58. “The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.” – Lang Leav
59. “I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
60. “Every problem you face is an opportunity to learn something. The biggest lessons in your life have been learned from the darkest days.” – Tracy Malone
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61. “When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.” – David Bowles
62. “Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.” – Ricky Skaggs
63. “Instead of saying, “I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues” say “I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.” – Horacio Jones
64. “You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.” – Bryant McGill
65. “The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.” – Stephen Richards
66. “A true healer is the one who heals himself first so others can benefit from his own healing.” – Hong Curley
67. “Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.” – Vironika Tugaleva
68. “Allow yourself to ache. In it, there is healing.” – Naide P Obiang
69. “Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
70. “A suffering heart cannot cure another suffering heart, but love can.”
– Ephantus Mwenda
71. ”Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos
72. ”The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss
73. ”Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
74. ”Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono
75. ”I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.” – Lindsay Wagner
76. ”It has been said that time heals all wounds. The truth is that time does not heal anything. It merely passes. It is what we do during the passing of time that helps or hinders the healing process.” – Jay Marshall
77. ”By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.” – Caroline Myss
78. ”Healing is an inside job.” – Dr. B.J. Palmer
79. ”It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place.” – David Hume
80. ”The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. It’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.” – Cheryl Strayed
