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