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Healing Quotes for the Body, Mind and Soul

Healing Quotes

Healing quotes to make you feel better, and let health and wellness fill your life.

Health of body and health of mind are most important. This is something everyone knows. When you are not in good condition, it is natural to seek ways to heal yourself.

The body and the mind have their own healing mechanism. They can heal themselves, if you let them and don’t stand in their way.

Tension, anxiety and worries prevent self-healing. To allow the healing process to work, you need to calm down mentally, emotionally and physically.

What Are the Requirements for Healing?

  • Relaxation is an important requirement in the process of healing, without it, the healing process is hindered. Without it, you remain tense, nervous and impatient.
  • Love, forgiveness, kindness and inner peace are also essential requirements for healing the body, the mind and the emotions.
  • When you are peaceful, joyful and optimistic, your mind and your body work unhindered to restore order, and to produce health and happiness.
  • You need to free yourself from your emotional burdens, leave behind the tension in your mind and in your body, and let the healing process to take place.

(Please note that the above does not substitute professional help.)

The following collection of healing quotes will give you inspiration and insight into the various aspects of healing, and would teach you what to do to let health and wellness fill your life.

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Healing Quotes

“Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn’t you – all of the expectations, all of the beliefs – and becoming who you are.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

“To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.”– Sylvia Fraser

“Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav

“Yoga is a method for restraining the natural turbulence of thoughts, which otherwise impartially prevent all men, of all lands, from glimpsing their true nature of Spirit. Yoga cannot know a barrier of East and West any more than does the healing and equitable light of the sun.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson

“To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.” – Sai Baba

“Music has the power to heal, transform and inspire and we have the power through deep listening to increase our intuition and self awareness.” – Andre Feriante

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert Humphrey

“I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of humanity.” – Billy Joel

“It has been said that time heals all wounds. The truth is that time does not heal anything. It merely passes. It is what we do during the passing of time that helps or hinders the healing process.” – Jay Marshall

“Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are” – Jack Kornfield

“Healing is embracing what is most feared; healing is opening what has been closed, softening what has hardened into obstruction, healing is learning to trust life.” – Jeanne Achterberg

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss

“Love is the most important healing power there is.” – Louise Hay

“Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.” – Barbara Brennan

“The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind.” – Paracelsus

“Awareness is the first step in healing.” – Dean Ornish

Insightful Healing Quotes

“To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” – Stephen Levine

“Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.” – Phyllis McGinley

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” – Joshua Kai

“Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.” – Jerry Cantrell

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts

“A true healer is the one who heals himself first so others can benefit from his own healing.” – Hong Curley

“The body heals itself according to its own timetable – anxious thoughts never hasten recuperation.” – Criswell Freeman

“As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.” – Maya Angelou

“Low self-esteem is like driving through life with your hand-break on.” – Maxwell Maltz

“Healing is an inside job.” – Dr. B.J. Palmer

“Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.” – Barbara Brennan

Nature Healing Quotes

It is said the nature has to power to heal. Spending time outside, in nature, relaxes both body and mind.

“Nature has the power to heal because it is where we are from, it is where we belong and it belongs to us as an essential part of our health and our survival.” – Nooshin Razani

“Spare time in the garden, either digging, setting out, or weeding; there is no better way to preserve your health.” – Richard Louv

“Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter” – Racheal Carson

Healing and Forgiveness Quotes

“Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.” – Stephen Levine

“You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay

“Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.” – Ruth Carter Stapleton

Inspiring Healing Quotes

“Laughter, music, prayer, touch, truth telling, and forgiveness are universal methods of healing.” – Mary Pipher

“It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place.” – David Hume

“Why should we worry about what others think of us, do we have more confidence in their opinions than we do our own?” – Brigham Young

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews

“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it. – Tori Amos

“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It’s a giant place. it’s a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light. – Cheryl Strayed

“When I stand before thee at the day’s end thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. – Rabindranath Tagore

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs, ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” – Howard Washington Thurman

Self Healing Quotes

Calmness, relaxation, and a positive mindset, enhance the self healing process.

“You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection” – Buddha

“To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance”Oscar Wilde

“There are days I drop words of comfort on myself like falling leaves and remember that it is enough to be taken care of by myself.” – Brian Andreas

“It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.” – Sally Field

“Lack of forgiveness causes almost all of our self-sabotaging behavior.” – Mark Victor Hansen

“For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.” – Reba McEntire

“Your inner critic is simply a part of you that needs more self-love.” – Amy Leigh Mercree

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