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