Famous Quotes & Sayings

David Hume

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place, ... It's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood.

I want this to be a place of healing for each of these kids.

Corrie Ten Boom

It is not on our forgiveness any more than on our goodness that the world's healing hinges, but His. When He tells us to love our enemies, He gives, along with the command, the love itself.

Cornel West

You can't talk about truth unless you talk about yourself.

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

...stories that rise from deep suffering can provide the most potent remedies for past, present, and even future ills.

David Simon

The same creative force that generated the universe created your body. It is vibrating with intelligence and spirit. It is ultimately sacred and worthy of your love, respect and intention. Take good care of it and nourish it with the most healing, life-sustaining foods, experiences, and sensory impressions.

David Simon

Reality is ultimately a selective act of perception and interpretation. A shift in our perception and interpretation enables us to break old habits and awaken new possibilities for balance, healing, and transformation.

David Simon

Any music can be healing if it inspires, relaxes, encourages or creates enthusiasm for life in you.

David Simon

Healing from our past is an essential aspect of expanding our sense of self and awakening our capacity to love. This shift often manifests as a change in the questions we've been asking ourselves. Instead of What do I need? we ask, How can I serve? Instead of What am I getting out of this? we start to ask, What can I bring to this situation to promote the highest possible outcome for everyone involved?

David Hawkins

Healing invokes the power of compassion, both for yourself and for others... At this point, the healed may become a healer.

Dana White

Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.

Orson Scott Card

Sickness and healing are in every heart; death and deliverance in every hand.

Kurt Vonnegut

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep.

Vandana Shiva

It's worse than slave trade because what is being traded is the very knowledge that makes survival possible for 80 percent of the people of this world. These 80 percent live on the biodiversity and the knowledge they have evolved as part of a rich collective heritage involving the use of seeds for growing crops and medicinal plants for healing.

Ernest Cline

Lights," I said softly. This had become my favorite word over the past week. In my mind, it had become synonymous with freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

The popular prophets have underestimated how strange the truth can be. The human brain, that 'perfect instrument,' that 'fabulous electronic dance,' can be our open sesame to an infinitely richer life than we have believed possible. The fluent, liberating, creative, healing attributes of the altered states can be incorporated into consciousness. We are just beginning to realize that we can truly open the doors of perception and creep out of the cavern.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.

Huston Smith

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.

Gloria Vanderbilt

To be happy--one must find one's bliss

Gloria Steinem

Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

Gloria Steinem

In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.

It is when judgment ceases that healing occurs.

J. K. Rowling

...he put his foot on one pedal, scooted a few yards and swung his other leg over the saddle. He soared left into the vertiginously sloping hillside road and sped, without touching his brakes ... The hedgerows and sky blurred; he imagined himself in a velodrome as the wind whipped his hair clean...

J. K. Rowling

You are protected, in short, by your ability to love!

Masanobu Fukuoka

The healing of the land and the purification of the human spirit is the same process.

Martha Beck

Bad artists ignore the darkness of human existence. Good artists often get stuck there. Great artists embrace the full catastrophe of our condition and find beyond it an even deeper truth of peace, healing, and redemption.

Paul Hawken

You can blame people who knock things over in the dark or you can begin to light candles. You're only at fault if you know about the problem and choose to do nothing.

Paul Hawken

We can just as easily have an economy that is based on healing the future instead of stealing it. We can either create assets for the future or take the assets of the future. One is called restoration and the other exploitation. And whenever we exploit the earth we exploit people and cause untold suffering. Working for the earth is not a way to get rich; it is a way to be rich.

R. D. Laing

The way out is through the door you came in.

Princess Diana

I was compelled to perform. When I say perform, I was compelled to go out and do my engagements and not let people down and support them and love them. In a way, by being out in public, they supported me although they weren't aware of just how much healing they were giving me. It carried me through.

Nelson Mandela

The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us.

Nhat Hanh

Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears.