Famous Quotes & Sayings

Francis Collins

It's interesting when you read the life of Christ how much of his time he spent healing the sick. There must have been a reason for that - he was modelling for us what it is we are intended to do by following his path.

Francis Collins

In my own experience as a physician, I have not seen a miraculous healing, and I don't expect to see one.

Francesca Lia Block

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

Forest Whitaker

I do look at that thematic of healing of humanity.

George Santayana

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

My sweetheart! When I think of you, it's as if I'm holding some healing balm to my sick soul, and although i suffer for you, i find that even suffering for you is easy.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words.

Chris Tucker

Making people laugh is giving, and it's healing, too, when people can go up to the movies and forget about their problems. It's a good thing. That's why I want to work.

Frederick Douglass

The sunlight that has brought life and healing to you has brought stripes and death to me. This Fourth of July is yours, not mine.

Frederick Buechner

The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.

Fiona Apple

In a sense it's a lot crazier when you're on the road and it's a lot less stable, but it's actually really healthy for me because it keeps me from isolating, which I tend to do a lot.

Henri Frederic Amiel

The ideal doctor would be a man endowed with profound knowledge of life and of the soul, intuitively divining any suffering or disorder of whatever kind, and restoring peace by his mere presence.

Helen Keller

My friends have made the story of my life.

Cat Stevens

Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

George Jean Nathan

Like everybody else, when I don't know what else to do, I seem to go in for catching colds.

Words possess primitive mystical incantatory healing powers... Their articulation represents a complete, lived experience.

He told me I would heal slower and I would be more prone to infection. But I've been through three surgeries already and I've never had any trouble with infections or anything like that.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I notice that Autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.

Franz Grillparzer

It's actually the spirit helping the spirit; it is the doctor, the bed, the potion.

Jeanette Winterson

I had lines inside me, a string of guiding lights. I had language. Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination. I had been damaged, and a very important part of me had been destroyed - that was my reality, the facts of my life. But on the other side of the facts was who I could be, how I could feel. And as long as I had words for that, images for that, stories for that, then I wasn't lost.

Jennifer Hudson

You can’t make a life-altering decision for someone else and expect it to stick.

Jennifer Granholm

The civil unrest of recent days must come to an end, and the healing process must begin for the future of the community. We will provide assistance both in ending the violence and enabling the healing process in Benton Harbor.

The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good.

Jack Kornfield

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

Ivy Compton-Burnett

I never agree with the compliments paid to it. It is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

Gary Sheffield

My wounds, ... It was like a cortisone to heal these wounds. I rubbed it on every night and it helped me.

Bill Crawford

When dealing with problems, seek not to "change" some aspect of your life but instead, choose who you want to become as a path to what you want. Transformation and healing then take place as a process of becoming versus avoiding.

Bernadette Peters

Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.

Carlos Beltran

That was something that I probably did wrong last year. I should have let the injury heal completely 100 percent. I just wanted to be there, and instead of helping the team, I was hurting the team. You learn from that.

I still love the preparation of the game. I think that actually helps you heal faster, still being around it; it keeps you motivated. It keeps you engaged, and I want to be around my teammates.

We have to pour some chlorine in there to help sanitize it a bit. It's still another health issue for my daughter.

John Kitzhaber

We're challenging the underlying structure of the U.S. health system.