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I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are ...

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In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal o...

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Brennan ManningAbba's Child: The Cry of the Heart for Intimate Belonging

I only share when I have no unmet needs that I'm trying to fill. I firmly believe that being vulnera...

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Brené BrownDaring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live

But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing i...

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There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of...

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Healing is a different type of pain. It’s the pain of becoming aware of the power of one’s strength ...

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What drains your spirit drains your body. What fuels your spirit fuels your body.

Finding the right healing path requires all or nothing. Once you place conditions on healing, all yo...

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Caroline MyssWhy People Don't Heal and How They Can: A Practical Programme for Healing Body

Hearts are breakable," Isabelle said. "And I think even when you heal, you're never what you were be...

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Forever does not make loss forgettable, only bearable.

They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite

I replied that I did not quite know what my ailment had been, but that I had certainly suffered a go...

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In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason ...

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Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you who...

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Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget...

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And gradually his memory slipped a little, as memories do, even those with so much love attached to ...

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Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.

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Craig GroeschelWeird: Because Normal Isn't Working

I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections.and it is not because the mechanism is working...

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To protect the innocent, to avoid being one of Burke's good men who do nothing, you have to accept p...

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Men who believe that the way to the mind is not by way of ice picks through the brain or large dosag...

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One that society can't forgive, but I can.

This is what healing demands. Behavior that is hurtful, shameful, abusive, or demeaning must be brou...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

True, the body's easily maimed, and the spirit can be crippled - yet there's that in a man that is n...

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To recognize one's own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and t...

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Eckhart TolleA New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with yo...

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Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

If writers write not just with paper and ink or a word processor but with their own life's blood, th...

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I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

The Book of Numbers relates that when the people murmured rebelliously against God, they were punish...

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Those who deny guilt and sin are like the Pharisees of old who thought our Saviour had a “guilt comp...

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Fulton J. SheenPeace of Soul: Timeless Wisdom on Finding Serenity and Joy by the Century's Most Acclaimed Catholic Bishop

Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in thi...

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All the world knew that a maester forged his silver link when he learned the art of healing—but the ...

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I have said so many times to many people on the spiritual path, 'You must be strong in yourself to h...

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Reading well is one of the great pleasuresthat solitude can afford you, because it isat least in my ...

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With jealousy, a parasite takes root in your heart. It becomes a cancer that eats away at your soul.

everything in the world has its reasons for doing what it does. The wind has its reasons. We just do...

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What happens when people open their hearts?""They get better.

I didn't expect to recover from my second operation but since I did, I consider that I'm living on b...

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The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an...

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You were too lazy to learn to dance until it was almost too late, and in the same way you were too l...

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Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.

It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the aca...

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He said that knowledge was of little use without wisdom, and that there was no wisdom without spirit...

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It's all right, Ginny. It's over. It's just a memory.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not eve...

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I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shield...

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The wounds that never heal can only be mourned alone.

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James FreyA Million Little Pieces

Transformation is my favorite game and in my experience, anger and frustration are the result of you...

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Frustration and Love can’t exist in the same place at the same time, so get real and start doing wha...

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Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

So when people say that poetry is a luxury, or an option, or for the educated middle classes, or tha...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, med...

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Jeanette WintersonWhy Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?

'The Panorama' is also the last place anywhere in New York where the World Trade Center still stands...

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Only time can heal your broken heart. Just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.

And oh she had been broken. She hid it well, but Ross knew from personal experience that once you ha...

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Jodi PicoultSecond Glance

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to...

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Jodi PicoultSing You Home

It turns out that sharing the past with someone is different from reliving it when you're alone. It ...

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Some people think it’s an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

When it comes to my salvation, all I need is Jesus; after my salvation, everything is Jesus plus the...

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The reward for attention is always healing.

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Julia CameronThe Artist's Way

Gloria put a bowl of stew in Peter's hands. "Eat," she said.Peter raised the spoon to his lips. He c...

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Kate DiCamilloThe Magician's Elephant

I am here, come closer,” the old donkey said with her eyes. “I will mother you.

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Katherine DunnMisfits of Love: Healing Conversations in the Barnyard

What she did not know, and would never have believed, was that though her soul seemed to have been g...

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The human heart does not stay away too long from that which hurt it most. There is a return journey ...

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Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems.

(Watching her) was a little like watching water lilies; rather more like smelling a dinner he was no...

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Henceforth the leaves of the tree of knowledge were for women, and for the healing of the nations.

Getting hold of the difficulty deep down is what is hard. Because if it is grasped near the surface ...

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We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the he...

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Christmas and Easter are attitudinal bookends for an enlightened world view. With an enlightened vie...

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Love will be our medicine.

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Marianne WilliamsonEnchanted Love: The Mystical Power Of Intimate Relationships

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job,’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see ...

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Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.

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Marianne WilliamsonThe Law of Divine Compensation: Mastering the Metaphysics of Abundance

Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And t...

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As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my sit...

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That timeI thought I could notgo any closer to griefwithout dyingI went closer,and I did not die.Sur...

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After a cruel childhood, one must reinvent oneself. Then reimagine the world.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

Take a day to heal from the lies you’ve told yourself and the ones that have been told to you.

We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a ...

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Be patient, as you must always be patient with new pale seeds buried in the dark ground. When you ar...

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The way you help heal the world is you start with your own family.

Zach found himself remembering something he'd heard Soledad and Leo saying the previous night, about...

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Suffering is just about the easiest of all human activities; being happy is just about the hardest. ...

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It is painful to face the self we know we have never had the integrity to honor and assert.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it...

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to prob...

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Illness is always an interaction between [mind and body]. It can begin in the mind and affect the bo...

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Norman CousinsAnatomy of an Illness: As Perceived by the Patient

Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.

But neither milk-white rose nor red May bloom in prison air;The shard, the pebble, and the flint, Ar...

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Satan takes occasion of the frailty of the bodily temple and says, 'Now you know you cannot do that;...

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The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sicknes...

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We become side-tracked if we make physical health our aim and imagine that because we are children o...

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Oswald ChambersThe Highest Good/The Shadow of an Agony