508 quotes
“Give your daughters difficult names give them names that command the full use of tongue and that is how naming heals”
— Warsan Shire
“We think that we need to learn how to give but really we need to learn how to receive healing love”
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Healing does not mean curing although the two words are often used interchangeably”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Remember you have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasnt worked try approving of yourself and watch what happens to your healing”
— Louise Hay
“Sipping tea while watching clouds is a fine art of doing nothing.”
— BibiDuck
“You cant stop the waves but you can learn to surf”
“I think my best friends are the ones who understand my quacks.”
“Sometimes I think clouds are just cotton candy waiting to be eaten.”
“Packing a picnic basket is like preparing for tiny adventures with sandwiches.”
“Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.”
— William Shakespeare
“Even the smallest puddle can be an ocean if you're a duck with imagination.”
“In order to change we need to feel safe enough to take the risks that healing requires”
— Peter Levine
“A nap is pure bliss.”
“Today is just… today.”
“When pain is fully felt it turns to something else entirely”
— Mark Nepo
“There's something magical about baking slightly crooked cookies.”
“My dream? To be happy under this blanket forever.”
“Before you can heal others you must first heal yourself this is not selfish it is necessary”
— Yung Pueblo
“The soul is healed by being with family children and finding peace in their innocence.”
— Dostoevsky
“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts choose healing colors”
— Marcus Aurelius
“What is stronger than the human heart which shatters over and over and still lives”
— Rupi Kaur
“Sometimes I think I’m a little too fond of my own feathers.”
“There are no mistakes no coincidences all events are blessings given to us to learn from and learning from them is healing”
“Acceptance of the unacceptable is the greatest source of grace in this world”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Sometimes I wonder if my quack is just a fancy way of saying 'hello'.”
“We heal the world one heart at a time starting with our own and that is enough”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“Perhaps the most important thing we bring to another person is the silence in us”
“When things fall apart and the ground gives way beneath us we can learn to rest in groundlessness and find healing there”
— Pema Chodron
“Sometimes, a nap is just a hug from the universe.”
“You dont have a right to the cards you believe you should have been dealt you have an obligation to play the hell out of the ones youre holding”
— Cheryl Strayed
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.”
— Iyanla Vanzant
“The new year stands before us like a chapter in a book waiting to be written with healing ink”
— Melody Beattie
“Your body and mind have remarkable healing abilities when you give them the right conditions”
— Bernie Siegel
“Sometimes the bravest thing you can do is take a nap.”
“One of the most challenging aspects of healing is the willingness to accept that your life has changed forever”
— Caroline Myss
“The point of power is always in the present moment right here and right now”
“City buses are like rolling daydream machines with wheels.”
“The soul is healed by being with children”
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot.”
— Gabriel García de Quevedo
“Healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.”
— Euripides
“There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature and each one carries wonder”
— Rachel Carson
“Be still and heal let the forest take away your worries”
“One good thing about music when it hits you you feel no pain”
— Bob Marley
“For the meaning of life differs from man to man from day to day from hour to hour and finding that meaning is where healing begins”
— Viktor Frankl
“Healing depends on listening with the inner ear stopping the incessant blather and listening”
— Marion Woodman
“The boundary to what we can accept is the boundary to our freedom”
— Tara Brach
“Nobody escapes being wounded we all are wounded people whether physically emotionally mentally or spiritually”
— Henri Nouwen
“Time heals what reason cannot.”
— Seneca
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.”
— John Burroughs
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you so tell it and heal”
— Maya Angelou
“It’s okay if no one understands me — I don’t fully understand myself either.”
“Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different and freeing yourself to heal now”
— Oprah Winfrey
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom”
— Anais Nin
“I’m small, but my peace is wide.”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“I’m not taking a break, I’m appreciating life.”
“The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other”
— Francis Weller
“Healing is entering with mercy and awareness those places in ourselves where we have closed our heart”
— Stephen Levine
“Letting go does not mean forgetting it means you have given yourself permission to move forward and that is a major healing milestone”
“There’s so much to do, but I don’t feel like doing any of it.”
“The last of human freedoms is to choose ones attitude in any given set of circumstances and that choice is where healing lives”
“You have been criticizing yourself for years and it has not worked try approving of yourself”
“Whatever you fight you strengthen and what you resist persists”
“Sometimes, the best adventure is just opening a new book.”
“When the time comes to heal the first person you will have to forgive is yourself”
“All great changes are preceded by chaos and on the other side of chaos lies healing and renewal”
— Deepak Chopra
“Grief is love with no place to go so we must create sacred spaces for it”
— Joanne Cacciatore
“Perhaps the biggest tragedy of our lives is that freedom is possible yet we can pass our years trapped in the same old patterns”
“We must be willing to meet the world with the fullness of our being and let it break us open so healing can enter”
“Coffee is hot, but the world feels cold.”
“Healing trauma is not about remembering it is about the body releasing what it has held”
“In the end forgiveness simply means never putting another person out of your heart and that heals everything”
— Jack Kornfield
“The human body is the best picture of the human soul.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea.”
— Isak Dinesen
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go”
— Hermann Hesse
“Collecting seashells always makes me feel like a treasure hunter.”
“You were not born to shrink down to less but to blossom into more of who you really are”
— Sonya Renee Taylor
“Sometimes, a cozy nap is the best adventure.”
“Activity and rest are the two great healers and knowing when to use each is the art of healing”
“When packing picnic baskets, remember: sandwiches may start neat, but adventures get messy.”
“Mindfulness means paying attention in a particular way on purpose in the present moment and non-judgmentally”
“A faithful friend is the medicine of life.”
— Unknown
“The wound is the place where the light enters you”
— Rumi
“Sometimes I wonder if my quack sounds like music to the pond.”
“Philosophy works best under a warm blanket.”
“There's something magical about stargazing on rooftops, like the stars have secrets just for me.”
“Gardening in mismatched socks feels like giving the earth a hug with each quirky step.”
“Sometimes I wonder if naps are my true calling.”
“Smile, it’s a new day!”
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world but if I do not want me the world is nothing but endings and healing reverses that”
— Nayyirah Waheed
“When you stand and share your story in an empowering way your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else”
“Art saved my life I was a very angry depressed person”
— Niki de Saint Phalle
“I like to think even the sky needs a break; that's why it gets cloudy sometimes.”
“Radical self-love demands that we see ourselves and others as worthy period and from that seeing healing happens”
“Collecting seashells feels like gathering whispers from the ocean.”
“The universe took its time on you crafted you precisely so you could offer the world something distinct from everyone else and that uniqueness is part of your healing”
“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair who can stay with us in an hour of grief is the healing presence we need”
“Pain is inevitable suffering is optional and healing transforms the relationship between the two”
— Dalai Lama
“Packing picnic baskets feels like planning a tiny feast for the sun.”
“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for and the courage to heal from”
“Trauma is not what happens to you it is what happens inside you as a result of what happened and healing reverses that inner process”
— Gabor Mate
“The soul is healed by being with children.”
“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a better past and embracing the healing present”
“The broken bone, once healed, is strongest at the place it was broken.”
— John Lyly
“The paradox of trauma is that it has both the power to destroy and the power to transform and resurrect and healing unlocks that transformation”
“The ordinary response to atrocities is to banish them from consciousness”
— Judith Herman
“Sometimes I think the best adventures are the ones that start with a nap.”
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance and dancing is itself healing”
— Alan Watts
“On a mini road trip, it turns out the best direction is always towards ice cream.”
“When you are healed you can help heal the world and when you help heal the world you are healed yourself”
“As long as you keep secrets and suppress information you are fundamentally at war with yourself and healing cannot begin”
— Bessel van der Kolk
“The wounded child inside many males is a boy who when he first expressed his feelings was shut down but he can heal”
— bell hooks
“A nap is like a little hug for the soul.”
“You are enough just as you are right now in this moment and accepting that is the deepest healing available”
“Suffering is universal but victimhood is optional”
— Edith Eger
“The world is complicated, but my snack list is simple.”
“Sometimes I wonder if my biggest talent is just looking cute while napping.”
“Being on a mini road trip is like a snack for the soul.”
“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path.”
— Gautama Buddha
“Gardening in mismatched socks makes even weeds feel like old friends.”
“To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear”
“Much of your pain is self-chosen it is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self”
— Khalil Gibran
“People are like stained glass windows they sparkle and shine when the sun is out but when the darkness sets in their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within”
“Collecting seashells is like gathering little whispers from the ocean.”
“It is not the bruise on the body that hurts. It is the bruise on the heart.”
— Aisha bint Abu Bakr
“To create one must be willing to be stone stupid to sit upon a throne on top of a dunghill and still begin but that is healing”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estes
“Gardening in mismatched socks is like painting outside the lines—unexpectedly refreshing.”
“The wound is the place where the Light enters you.”
“Packing picnic baskets is a bit like solving puzzles with sandwiches.”
“Our bodies are not an obstacle to overcome but a gift to celebrate and celebrating them is healing”
“No medicine cures what happiness cannot”
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Rarely if ever are any of us healed in isolation healing is an act of communion”
“Healing is about reclaiming the body as a safe place to be and learning to trust its wisdom again”
“Gardening in mismatched socks is like painting outside the lines.”
“Nothing binds you except your thoughts and nothing limits you except your fear but healing releases both”
— Marianne Williamson
“There is no right way to grieve there is only your way and honoring that is healing”
“Sometimes I think my favorite exercise is a slow waddle to the snack bowl.”
“Gardening in mismatched socks is like dancing with the earth.”
“I can be changed by what happens to me but I refuse to be reduced by it and that refusal is the beginning of healing”
“City buses are like moving daydream factories.”
“Humans live on coffee, I live on cookies.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“You deserve gentle hands especially your own and that gentleness is the seed of healing”
— Thema Bryant
“We can struggle with what is wrong with us or we can love what is right with us and loving what is right is the essence of healing”
“As we let our own light shine we unconsciously give others permission to do the same”
“Healing is not about going back to who you were before it is about becoming who you were meant to be”
“Stargazing on rooftops makes me wonder if the stars watch us back.”
“Your healing is interconnected with the healing of the collective and both matter equally”
“Surviving the day is already a victory.”
“The world is running fast, but I’m still in bed.”
“That is the thing about pain it demands to be felt”
— John Green
“Daydreaming on the city bus feels like a secret mission nobody knows about.”
“You do not have to be good you do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles repenting you only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves”
“Life is really very simple what we give out we get back and when we give healing we receive it too”
“Today’s failure will be tomorrow’s meme.”
“I don’t know why, but the air feels delicious today.”
“Neuroscience research shows that the only way we can change the way we feel is by becoming aware of our inner experience and learning to befriend what is going on inside ourselves”
“At the deepest level the creative process and the healing process arise from a single source and what is really healing is courage”
“Gardening in mismatched socks makes every plant feel special.”
“I am willing to release the pattern in my consciousness that created this condition and allow healing to begin”
“The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts and healing those thoughts transforms everything”
“Today’s plan: breathe, zone out, eat snacks.”
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places”
— Ernest Hemingway
“In mindfulness we can touch the healing and refreshing elements of life that are within us and around us every day”
“Every thought we think is creating our future”
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“Healing doesnt mean the damage never existed it means the damage no longer controls your life”
— Nikki Rowe
“Healing is not a destination it is a way of living”
“In the end just three things matter how well we have lived how well we have loved and how well we have learned to let go”
“No expectations, no disappointments — just peace.”
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding”
“The bus is my thinking chair on wheels, and today it's heading nowhere fast.”
“Gazing up during a meteor shower feels like catching wishes in midair.”
“To me the essence of healing is knowing that I am loveable and capable of loving”
“Empowerment through empathy is the key to healing communities”
— Tarana Burke
“The cure for a lost voice is not in the throat it is in the life that created the silence and healing that silence is the real work”
“Packing a picnic basket is like preparing a surprise for my future hungry self.”
“Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.”
— Plautus
“I think the best ideas are the ones you find while looking for snacks.”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“What cannot be cured must be endured.”
— François Rabelais
“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning and that new beginning is the essence of healing”
— Desmond Tutu
“The ego keeps us trapped in old patterns of suffering but the heart knows the way to healing liberation”
— Ram Dass
“I’m not lazy — I’m relaxed.”
“Compassion for ourselves is the most powerful healer of them all because it addresses the root”
“The body heals with play the mind heals with laughter and the spirit heals with joy”
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.”
— Hippocrates
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances if there is any reaction both are transformed and healing flows between them”
— Carl Jung
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings”
— Lao Tzu
“Trauma is not what happens to us but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness”
“Patience and passage of time do more than strength and fury in family healing.”
— Jean de La Fontaine
“When you change the way you look at things the things you look at change and healing begins”
— Wayne Dyer
“Traumatized people chronically feel unsafe inside their bodies and making them feel safe again is the heart of healing”
“Whatever we refuse to recognize about ourselves has a way of rearing its head and demanding attention but when we look at it healing begins”
“Waddling slowly is just the art of taking life one quack at a time.”
“Even a duck needs a little splash of laziness now and then.”
“Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing but if it is genuine it is enough”
“Collecting seashells is like finding little whispers from the ocean.”
“Healing does not require the denial of our pain but rather an encounter with it in the presence of one who cares”
“Who looks outside dreams who looks inside awakens and begins to heal”
“There's nothing quite like baking slightly crooked cookies on a rainy afternoon.”
“Faith is the antiseptic of the soul.”
— Walt Whitman
“Between stimulus and response there is a space and in that space is our power to heal and grow”
“There is no coming to consciousness without pain”
“Even clouds need a nap to dream of rain.”
“Your biography becomes your biology and healing your story heals your body”
“To keep the body in good health is a duty, otherwise we shall not be able to keep our mind strong and clear.”
— Buddha
“Life isnt as serious as the mind makes it out to be and healing begins when we lighten our grip on thoughts”
“What I know for sure is that speaking your truth is the most powerful tool we all have for healing”
“The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment and that step is all the healing you need”
“Grief is the last act of love we can give to those we loved where there is deep grief there was great love and healing honors both”
“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves as part of healing”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“The conflict between the will to deny horrible events and the will to proclaim them aloud is the central dialectic of psychological trauma and healing resolves it”
“I wonder if the stars are laughing at my rooftop stargazing dance.”
“I am not what happened to me I am what I choose to become”
“There is in every true woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire, which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.”
— Washington Irving
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen just listen”
“The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain”
“The healing of trauma is a natural process that can be accessed through an inner awareness of the body”
“There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you”
“Nothing ever really attacks us except our own confusion sometimes we need to let ourselves be confused and wait for clarity and healing”
“Music is the medicine of the mind.”
— John Logan
“The city bus is my magic carpet, taking me to daydreams I didn't know I needed.”
“I do not want to have you to fill the empty parts of me I want to be full on my own and that is healing”
“Sometimes I think my feathers are just for show, but they do keep me warm.”
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is a covenant between equals”
— Brene Brown
“Traumatic events destroy the sustaining bonds between individual and community and recovery requires rebuilding those bonds”
“Those who have a why to live can bear almost any how”
“Train-station people watching turns waiting into an adventure.”
“In any moment we can let the circumstances of our lives harden us so that we become increasingly resentful or we can let them soften us and make us kinder and that softening is healing”
“To heal we must first acknowledge the wound and give it our full compassionate attention”
“Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death and yet it is guilt that must be healed for us to move on”
“Sometimes I wonder if my favorite blanket is a better friend than most people.”
“When we realize that our pain is not our fault but it is our responsibility to heal it everything changes”
“When we are no longer able to change a situation we are challenged to change ourselves”
“Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
— Karl Menninger
“The best part of city buses is how they turn into dream machines with every bump.”
“The most precious opportunity presents itself when we come to the place where we think we cant handle it and healing shows us we can”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us we often find that it is those who instead of giving advice have chosen rather to share our pain”
“We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing and our efforts to find lasting healing pleasure become a source of suffering until we learn to rest in change”
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they dont have any”
— Alice Walker
“Sometimes I think my best friend is the sun; it never fails to warm my feathers.”
“The planet does not need more successful people. It desperately needs more peacemakers healers and restorers.”
“Time is the best doctor.”
— Yiddish Proverb
“There is no future without forgiveness and no healing without it either”
“True belonging doesnt require you to change who you are it requires you to be who you are and that is healing”
“Rest when you're weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“There's something magical about gardening in mismatched socks.”
“Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.”
— Albert Schweitzer
“Sometimes I wonder if naps are just life's way of saying, 'You're doing great, keep it up!'”
“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.”
“The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are and healing makes that possible”
“The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.”
“City buses are like time machines, always leaving me in the past or future.”
“Taking a nap on a rainy day is like borrowing a little piece of sunshine.”
“Sometimes I think the best adventure is just a nap with a good pillow.”
“Sitting on the rooftop, I wonder if stars have bedtime stories too.”
“The physician treats, but nature heals.”
“Happiness isn’t far away — it’s right here on the couch.”
“The body is not an apology it is a site of radical self-love”
“The moment we believe something is wrong with us we abandon the healing power of our own presence”
“Your joy is your sorrow unmasked the deeper your sorrow carves into your being the more joy you can contain”
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls the most massive characters are seared with scars”
“My humanity is bound up in yours for we can only be human together”
“I think my mismatched socks make the garden blooms brighter.”
“Gardening in mismatched socks is like a dance with nature's rhythm.”
“The sky is clear, and that’s enough reason to smile.”
“Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know”
“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.”
“He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.”
“The purpose of our lives is to be happy and healing is the path to that happiness”
“Healing is a different type of pain it is the pain of finally allowing yourself to feel”
“Love and compassion are necessities not luxuries without them humanity cannot survive and healing cannot happen”
“Collecting seashells is like finding hidden pieces of the ocean's smile.”
“I wonder if stargazing on rooftops makes the stars feel closer or if it's just my imagination.”
“To listen is to lean in softly with a willingness to be changed by what we hear and that is healing”
“The healing comes from letting there be room for all of it fear and sadness and happiness and love”
“We are hardwired for connection and the healing that comes from truly being seen by another person”
“The best kind of adventure is getting lost in a good book.”
“The little things the little moments they are not little they are the fabric of healing”
“The world breaks everyone, and afterward, many are strong at the broken places.”
“We waste so much energy trying to cover up who we are when beneath every attitude is the wonder of our presence”
“We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem but the truth is that things dont really get solved they come together and they fall apart and then they come together again and that is healing”
“Do not grieve anything you lose comes round in another form and that is the healing cycle”
“I’d like to be a cat in my next life — napping is a full-time job.”
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health”
“The simple truth is that happy people generally dont get sick”
“The body keeps the score and it always wins”
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: that word is love.”
— Sophocles
“Stargazing on rooftops reminds me that even the sky has secrets.”
“Found a world in my mismatched socks while gardening today.”
“The soul is healed by being with children for they embody the pure faith we have forgotten”
“Unconditional love is the most powerful stimulant of the immune system and the most powerful healing force”
“The key to healing is to go through what you have to go through not around it”
“Grief and love are sisters woven together from the beginning there is no love without grief”
“I wished for nothing to happen today... but I already woke up.”
“The cure for anything is salt water: sweat tears or the sea.”
“The real work of healing is letting go of everything that isnt you”
“Live your life from your heart share from your heart and your story will touch and heal peoples souls”
“Being able to hover calmly and objectively over our thoughts feelings and emotions and then take our time to respond allows the healing brain to function”
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love”
— Mooji
“Grief is not a problem to be solved it is an experience to be carried”
“Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once but of stretching out to mend the part that is within our reach and healing starts there”
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving when we can be alone we can be with others without using them as a means of escape”
“The quieter you become the more you can hear”
“Love and healing are always possible even in the most difficult circumstances”
“There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.”
— Orison Swett Marden
“If worrying changes nothing, maybe it’s snack time.”
“Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“You can always cope with the present moment but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection and healing happens in the present”
“There's a secret world of stories waiting at the city bus stop.”
“Your healing matters not just for you but for everyone connected to you healing ripples outward”
“Taking a mini road trip is like opening the windows of your mind.”
“Nothing beats a good library hideout for a quiet adventure.”
“Healing begins where the wound was made and it begins with gentleness toward ourselves”
“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.”
— Solomon
“History despite its wrenching pain cannot be unlived but if faced with courage need not be lived again and that facing is healing”
“I am in the right place at the right time doing the right thing for my healing”
“The heart surrenders everything to the moment the mind judges and holds back”
“Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning and healing begins there”
“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world”
“Freedom is in your mind and healing begins when you choose to use it”
“Gratitude makes sense of our past brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow”
“Collecting seashells is like finding tiny ocean secrets.”
“Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose there are no mistakes and no coincidences all events are blessings given to us to learn from”
“On a mini road trip, every mile feels like a secret waiting to be told.”
“Be miserable or motivate yourself whatever has to be done it is always your choice and healing is always available”
“Life is full of suffering and it is also full of overcoming suffering and that overcoming is what we call healing”
“Your scars are beautiful they prove that healing is possible and that you survived”
“For real change to take place the body needs to learn that the danger has passed and to live in the reality of the present”
“In the library hideouts, books whisper secrets when no one's listening.”
“Some days I wonder if I’m a duck or just a quack in the world.”
“City buses are like rolling daydream factories.”
“The soul that is within me no man can degrade.”
— Frederick Douglass
“Helping fixing and serving represent three different ways of seeing life when you help you see life as weak when you fix you see life as broken when you serve you see life as whole”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive — to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
“The heart is like a garden it can grow compassion or fear resentment or love what seeds will you plant there”
“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons.”
— Blaise Pascal
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
— Helen Keller
“We cannot choose what happens to us but we can choose how we respond and in that choice lies our healing”
“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician.”
— Paracelsus
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
“In most of our human relationships we spend much of our time reassuring one another that our costumes of identity are on straight but real healing drops the costume”
“The pain body wants to survive and it can only survive if it gets you to unconsciously identify with it but healing breaks that identification”
“In grief nothing stays put and nothing stays the same healing moves in waves”
“Naps are just a way for ducks to rethink their dreams.”
“Sleep, rest of things, O pleasing deity, peace of the soul, which cares dost crucify, weary bodies refresh and mollify.”
— Ovid
“Stargazing on rooftops makes my dreams feel closer.”
“He who has health has hope, and he who has hope has everything.”
— Thomas Carlyle
“Sometimes the best journeys are from the couch to the fridge.”
“Every experience of love heals and every experience of fear wounds and we always have the choice”
“Even in the midst of suffering there is a grace that holds us and a healing that sustains us”
“Naps are life’s little breaks.”
“Sometimes, doing nothing is doing the most important something.”
“Dismantle your wounds so you stop living your life by them.”
“Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded it is an equal partnership”
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear”
“Look within there is a fountain of healing there that will never be exhausted if you know how to access it”
“Gardening in mismatched socks feels like a dance with nature.”
“To have faith is to trust yourself to the water when you let go and sink into it you float and that is how healing works”
“Taking mini road trips feels like the world is one giant breadcrumb trail.”
“The soul is healed by being with children in a loving family.”
“How to have a good day: eat first, think later.”
“Our painful experiences are not a liability they are a gift offering us the most direct path to healing and wholeness”
“Collecting seashells is like a treasure hunt with no map and plenty of waves.”
“They call me lazy, but I call it deep thinking in bed.”
“I go to nature to be soothed and healed and to have my senses put in order.”
“We do not need more knowledge we need more compassion to heal this wounded world”
— Tenzin Palmo
“I’m not slow — the world is just rushing too much.”
“Sometimes the best journeys are from couch to fridge.”
“Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder. Help someones soul heal.”
“Clouds are just fluffy hugs.”
“The ego says once everything falls into place I will find peace the spirit says find peace and everything will fall into place for healing”
“The healing I have witnessed most often and most deeply is the healing of the heart”
“In the middle of winter, I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer.”
“Sometimes, the best journey is just a nap in the sun.”
“An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior and understanding this is the beginning of healing”
“The greatest wound we all carry is the wound of not being enough but that wound can heal”
“Later that night holding an atlas in her lap she can trace the line of every country she has been and that is her healing map”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
“Stargazing on rooftops makes me wonder if the stars gossip about us too.”
“Perhaps the most radical act you can commit is to be still and listen to the wisdom of your own healing body”
“You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first that is the real healing work”
“She made broken look beautiful and strong look invincible she walked with the universe on her shoulders and made it look like a pair of wings”
“In the library hideout, even my thoughts whisper to each other.”
“When we meet pain with mercy something new is born within us that is healing”
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty”
“Rest is a radical act of healing in a world that profits from your exhaustion”
“Nothing is more important than reconnecting with your bliss nothing is as rich nothing is more real than healing joy”
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering out of a fear of the unknown”
“We are each made for goodness love and compassion our lives are transformed when we act in healing ways”
“I tried to be a morning duck, but I think I just prefer the sound of snoozing.”
“Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself and healing changes those beliefs”
“Healing is not the absence of disease but the presence of a felt sense of wholeness even in the midst of illness”
“Packing picnic baskets is the art of fitting too much into too little.”
“You treat a disease you win you lose. You treat a person I guarantee you win no matter what the outcome.”
— Patch Adams
“No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark”
“What we dont need in the midst of struggle is shame for being human”
“Not why the addiction but why the pain understand the pain and you can begin to heal”
“Healing is not just about the body it involves every dimension of human experience”
“These pains you feel are messengers listen to them carefully”
“Sometimes I think I should be a pillow, just to know what it feels like to be cozy all day.”
“The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy.”
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unseen but healing makes it a dance again”
“An uneventful day is the most special kind of day.”
“The first step in healing is to accept what is to honor the truth of your experience”
“Love cures people — both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.”
“The soul is healed by being with children who remind us what wonder looks like in its purest form”
“How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.”
— Publilius Syrus
“Forgiveness is no longer wishing that your past were different and choosing to heal your present”
“By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.”
— Confucius
“Healing is not about moving on it is about moving forward with all you have learned”
“How people treat you is their karma how you react is yours and your healing lies in that reaction”
“The master healer has no need to heal she simply reminds others of their own innate wholeness”
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair as nature heals you”
“The prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up.”
— James 5:15
“If I ate well and survived the day, I did great.”
“Healing is not linear and that is okay give yourself permission to spiral and still grow”
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat and found their way out of the depths”
“Healing requires that we step away from the tribe long enough to hear our own inner voice clearly”
“Napping is just my way of contemplating the universe, one feather at a time.”
“Healing is possible when we understand that our symptoms are not the problem but signals pointing to it”
“Stargazing on rooftops makes me feel slightly taller.”
“When you are content to simply be and dont compare or compete everyone will respect you and healing flows to those who are content”
“The soul is healed by being with children and by being in solitude with ones own thoughts”
“Healing begins where the wound was made”
“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security and healing requires the same”
“The doors to the world of the wild self are few but precious if you have a deep scar that is a door”
“The energy of mindfulness carries within it the energy of compassion and together they heal”
“I thought about thinking… but decided not to.”
“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past but you will find yourself and that finding is healing”
“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you are alone with”
“Every cell in your body is eavesdropping on your thoughts so choose healing ones”
“Healing is not about becoming perfect it is about becoming whole”
“You cant heal what you refuse to confront and you cant confront what you refuse to acknowledge”
“Be a lamp or a lifeboat or a ladder help someones soul heal walk beside them and do nothing but be kind”
“You may forget the one with whom you have laughed but never the one with whom you have wept for weeping together is healing”
“Let everything happen to you beauty and terror just keep going no feeling is final”
“Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet”
“By the flood of tears I shed, I cleanse and heal the wounds of grief.”
“Daring greatly means the courage to be vulnerable to show up and let yourself be seen as you heal”
“Sometimes I quack at clouds just to see if they’ll quack back.”
“The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago the second best time is now just as with healing”
“There's a whole world of stories inside a library hideout.”
“What opens us is never what we plan and that spontaneous opening is a form of healing grace”
“Healing yourself is one of the most difficult yet beautiful commitments you can make”
“We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known and that is healing in action”
“No big achievements today, and that’s perfectly fine.”
“Traumatic symptoms are not caused by the event itself they arise when residual energy from the experience is not discharged from the body”
“Your body has been a good companion what has it done to earn your contempt heal that relationship”
“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage”
“The only cure for grief is to grieve fully and completely allowing the healing to happen naturally”
“The city bus is my magic carpet, flying me to daydream destinations.”
“There's an art to not spilling tea while sketching raindrops on windows.”
“The moon looks pretty tonight, and I don’t need another reason.”
“The healing that is hardest to find is the healing that lives within us”
“No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.”
— John Stuart Mill
“I love and approve of myself exactly as I am right now this is the foundation of healing”
“Recovery can take place only within the context of relationships it cannot occur in isolation”
“Wounding and healing are not opposites they are part of the same thing it is our nature to heal”
“If you have ever been called defiant incorrigible impossible or broken you are on the right path”
“There's something magical about stargazing on rooftops; the stars always listen.”
“Without forgiveness there is no future and without healing there is no forgiveness so healing comes first”
“Our whole spiritual transformation brings us to the point where we realize that in our own being we are enough and that is the ultimate healing”
“I tried to be a morning duck, but the bed is just too cozy.”
“Where there is great love, there are always miracles.”
— Willa Cather
“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, is by no means a waste of time.”
— John Lubbock
“Initiation through suffering brings us the gift of knowing that we belong to something larger than ourselves”
“What the soul needs is not more information but more initiation into the mysteries of grief love and healing”
“Radical acceptance is the willingness to experience ourselves and our life as it is and from there healing flows”
“With everything that has happened to you you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift”
“The healing that comes from engaging life directly is the most lasting kind”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom and your pain into power”
“Owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing we will ever do”
“The cure for pain is in the pain itself if you sit with it long enough”
“Gardening in mismatched socks feels like dancing with the earth.”
“In our own woundedness we can become a source of life for others and that mutual healing is the deepest gift”
“Nobody can save you but yourself and you are worth saving thats what healing is all about”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of healing innovation creativity and change”
“I tried baking slightly crooked cookies today, and they still taste like sunshine.”
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