Top 100 Quotes About Pain And Healing
#1. At the bottom of every person's dependency, there is always pain, Discovering the pain and healing it is an essential step in ending dependency.
Chris Prentiss
#2. It takes an extraordinary toll on me to re-live my experiences, the horrors of my past and the pain I had to endure. And yet, I believe remembering is the only way to promote healing, to promote awareness and accountability.
Ger Duany
#3. And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn't want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real comfort in the pain.
Matt Haig
#4. Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.
Caroline Myss
#5. Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.
Harley King
#6. This book attempts to
record a journey to restoration that applies to ordinary people like you and I. It is a shot towards healing. A step headed for a new consciousness. It emerges from a moment in time where all seems lost.
Phindiwe Nkosi
#7. When we are in constant pain, we cannot empathize with others, nor can we help them. It is only when we allow ourselves to open up to our own nourishment that we are free to feed the rest of the world. And thus, to attend to one's own suffering is the most selfless act.
Vironika Tugaleva
#8. A little pain now and then is normal;
The wounds will heal, and then we'll be okay.
Life goes on, but not forever,
So why should we?
Margo T. Rose
#9. It seemed so simple in a lot of ways, to use a basic melody to pull away from myself. To ease the pain and hide my feelings deep within a metaphor that only I understood. I couldn't have foreseen that my quiet and dark night of the soul would start me down a path of expression through song.
Mike Ericksen
#10. Scar tissue - it's a new layer of tender skin, lightly covering the wound. Still a vulnerable spot, the slightest little knock might tear the skin so it bleeds and the remembered ache from the old wound intensifies the pain from the latest blow.
Jinat Rehana Begum
#11. The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.
Janet Jackson
#12. Pain & suffering requires time, awareness, and an intentional practice of self-love to disentangle.
Sharon Salzberg
#13. All of us know about learning life's lessons through pain, struggle, and loss. But few of us realize that it is often the gentlest lessons that teach us most. Serendipity can instruct us as much as sorrow.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
#14. In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never separated. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.
Henri Nouwen
#15. If you did not live lovingly and love deeply, you would not feel the pain of separation. But neither would you feel the joy, passion, and happiness that living fully and loving deeply bring.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#17. If you avoid your truthful emotions and pain you will implode and contract into a diminished and feeble state.
Bryant McGill
#18. We are often so convinced that we are so hurt and in pain, so much so that we opt not to forgive. Yet, as a consequence, that is what will make you weak!
Stephen Richards
#19. The healing is my working out my salvation. The need constant because my desire for seperateness constantly wrestles with my need for oneness with Jesus. The search for Jesus is bigger, deeper and agonizing.
W. Scott Lineberry
#20. Brokenness is just like beauty; it's something we wear and carry, and if we let it define us, it will. But we are not our beauty or our brokenness, because souls are not made of beauty or brokenness. Souls are made of something permanent. Souls are made of truth.
Lauren Miller
#21. I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside.
Wm. Paul Young
#22. When we find the courage to face our pain, it always helps heal others, as well as ourselves".
Phyllis Edgerly Ring
#23. Pain can cause us to learn no end of lessons, but without resolution there can be no healing!
Stephen Richards
#24. If there is a single definition of healing it is to enter with mercy and awareness those pains, mental and physical, from which we have withdrawn in judgment and dismay. (48)
Stephen Levine
#25. Make your pain productive and you can transform tragedy into triumph.
Jaeda DeWalt
#26. I believed I was too sensitive and weak. To "prove" I wasn't a victim anymore, I moved closer to painful experiences rather than away from them. Remaining in harm's way and exposing myself to more pain kept me in the victim role rather than moving me out of it.
Christina Enevoldsen
#27. This pain you are avoiding is a very necessary pain that will make you strong again.
Stephen Richards
#28. It takes a strong woman to lose everything, then stand naked in front of the mirror and face herself again. You need time, honey. And I don't mean time for it to go away. I mean time to learn how to live with it. This is a pain you'll always carry.
Sarah Ockler
#29. We invent what we need to get us by, but in doing so we are really continuing to hold on to the pain of yesterday.
Stephen Richards
#30. Remember, pain and misery
are transient and ephemeral
but love has the healing power,
which is eternal.
Debasish Mridha
#31. If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain - in time you will move through your pain.
Bryant McGill
#32. The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.
Christiane Northrup
#34. Some of the pain released, and love filled the cleared space, uniting, magnetizing more self-love to it.
Colleen Chen
#35. The wounding becomes sacred when we are willing to release our old stories and to become the vehicles through which the new story may emerge into time.
Jean Houston
#36. I don't want to be in pain anymore. I want to be done, to be left unburdened and naked, to tear the hurt off my body like layers of clothes. At the end of the trail I stop and bend forward, hands on my knees, to catch my breath. I'm not healed, but for this moment, I'm better.
Kerry Cohen
#37. Harboring anger, hatred and resentment within you, is containing the venom within you. You are the only one affected ...
Jacqueline Ripstein
#38. Happiness isn't about pretending there's no pain. It's about accepting the pain as a part of healing and doing your best to nurse your own wounds with love and patience.
Vironika Tugaleva
#39. Whenever someone calls me a Pollyanna, I consider it to be the highest of compliments. This courageous girl finds a community that has been torn apart with hate, fear, and pain and brings it love, courage and healing. Isn't that what our world today needs more than anything?
Joe Tye
#40. Studies have shown that vibrations of 25 hertz applied to extremities promote wound healing, and increase bone density and muscle mass. They also help with pain relief. The cat's purr is 25 hertz (25 cycles per second).
Pam Johnson-Bennett
#41. The pain you feel is simply because you do not yet have the strength to forgive. But you will grow strong again, that is for sure.
Stephen Richards
#42. Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.
David Richo
#43. Healing severe or chronic pain, I believe, includes transforming our relationship to the pain, and, ultimately, it is about transforming our relationship to who we are and to life.
Sarah Anne Shockley
#44. I have no pain, but he has split open my skull.
There is no matter, I mean, there is no brain in there. It, it is just a skull. And still he felt he had to open it
to let energy in there.
Sandra Harner
#45. People use each other
as a healing for their pain. They put each other
on their existential wound,
on the eye, on the cunt, on mouth and open hand.
They hold each other and won't let go.
Yehuda Amichai
#46. There is a power in nature that man has ignored. And the result has been heartache and pain.
Anasazi Foundation
#47. This is what I'm supposed to be doing this summer. This is how I'm supposed to be passing my days. Figuring out the secret to how she was the most joyful person when she was dying. Because I'm living, and I sure as hell don't have a clue how to feel anything but empty.
Daisy Whitney
#48. Forgiveness is not a one off decision; it is a journey and a process that takes time, determination, and persistence. Forgiveness is not forgetting; it is simply denying your pain the right to control your life.
Corallie Buchanan
#49. Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain
O. Carl Simonton
#50. What to say? That the end of love is a haunting. A haunting of dreams. A haunting of silence. Haunted by ghosts it is easy to become a ghost. Life ebbs. The pulse is too faint. Nothing stirs you. Some people approve of this and call it healing. It is not healing. A dead body feels no pain.
Jeanette Winterson
#51. Loss pushes us to difficult places where we have not been before. We often question whether or not we have the courage and stamina to survive the pain. However, we often are given gifts that tell us that we are not alone and that we can withstand the journey.
Susan Barbara Apollon
#52. They smiled in their pains and laughed to scorn those who inflicted torments on them, resigned up their souls with great alacrity, expecting to receive them again.
Josephus
#53. Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.
Yann Martel
#54. Our Ancestors knew that healing comes in cycles and circles.
One generation carries the pain so that the next can live and heal.
One cannot live without the other, each is the other's hope, meaning & strength.
Gemma B. Benton
#55. We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)
Stephen Levine
#56. Atonement is a journey of healing that moves from the pain between a victim and an oppressor, through forgiveness, the making of amends, the relief of anger and compassion for the victim, to deep reconciliation.
Phil Cousineau
#58. But time soon passes. Even the deepest pain eventually loses its edge in the more vivid reality of the present; then, what once was unbearable becomes strangely familiar. And after much familiarity, it assumes the insignificance of just another milestone, ever marking the journey to higher ground.
N. Maria Kwami
#59. The only thing that will make us remain glued to being the victim is our failure to handle the emotions that we go through and the pain that overcomes us.
Stephen Richards
#60. When things like this happen - when what was meant to help results in harm, when a salve brings pain instead of healing - it is clear how wrong even choices intended to be right can become.
Ally Condie
#61. We heal up through being loved, and through loving others. We don't heal by forming a secret society of one - by assessing about the only other 'one' we might admit, and being doomed to disappointment.
Jeanette Winterson
#62. There is an intelligent healing process inside of you that knows how to absorb pain and transform it into wisdom.
Bryant McGill
#63. My art is largely made up of my pain; re-framed, redesigned and re-purposed. It's a mutually beneficial experience for both the creator and the beholder. Transformative healing is a beautiful process.
Jaeda DeWalt
#64. If there ever was someone who had a control over you, someone who could cause you the greatest pain, someone who could ignore your most necessary requirements and someone for whom forgiveness were truly difficult to render, that person is none other than YOU.
Stephen Richards
#65. True healing happens when we go into our pain so deeply that we see it, not just as our pain, but everyone's pain. It is immensely moving and supportive to discover that my pain is not private to me.
Steven Levine
#66. With you, I find peace from pain - You are gentle and healing like the landscape - like rain ...
John Geddes
#67. The Atonement has not only helped me be cleansed, and be healed, but it has also helped me live.
Jayda Skidmore
#68. Pain is one of life's great lessons. You need to know how you'll react to the negatives in your life. Only then will you learn from the pain, and the next time it happens, you can speed up your healing process.
Terry Bradshaw
#69. Through spiritual maturity you will see new ways to avoid unnecessary suffering; wiser ways to endure unavoidable hardships with grace, and opportunities to turn your pain into lessons of service and healing for others.
Bryant McGill
#70. I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.
Anne Sexton
#71. Words matter, he tells them and us, and we have a choice to use them for good or for ill. We can choose to be boastful, mouth off a snide comment, fire a well-placed jab. Or we can let our words be a reflection of God's grace, so the words that echo are of peace and healing, not brokenness and pain.
Richelle Thompson
#72. Her essay about the wedding ring was short. Kerr wrote: "Things are just things - they have no power to hurt or to heal. Only people can do that. And we can all choose whether to be hurt or healed by the people who love us."
That was all.
And that was everything.
Jack Canfield
#73. Some things scratch the surface while others strike at your soul.
Gianna Carini
#74. I must be ever so careful to remember that my pain is a precious salve that when used in the service of others can heal a thousand wounds and more. And I must likewise remember that if I do not use it as such, I have done nothing more than wound myself yet again.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#75. And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to me feet once again - so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.
Jack Canfield
#76. Forgetting: that, too, was the heart's slow way of healing, but it could only be done alone. Love and loss turns us into the most solitary of creatures, their mysteries can never entirely be shared.
Eric Gamalinda
#78. The Aramaic word for "forgive" means literally to "untie." Hatred and anger had bound me to my pain. The fastest way to free the self from an enemy and all associated negativity is to forgive. Untie those bindings; free yourself from that person's ugliness.
Sharon E. Rainey
#79. God wants to bring joy not pain, peace not war, healing not suffering. Therefore, instead of declaring anything and everything to be the will of God, we must be willing to ask ourselves where in the midst of our pains and sufferings we can discern the loving presence of God.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#80. Doesn't that hurt?" I said. "Yep." "How do you keep them in there?" "I'm stubborn." You grinned. "Stubborn as a waddywood. And anyway, pain means it's healing." "Not always.
Lucy Christopher
#81. A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.
Lindsay Wagner
#82. even now, the building raised a conflicting set of emotions in her: memories of pain and loss, but also of healing and discovery.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#83. Jesus wanted to show mercy to every single person He met. He wanted to sweep them up and embrace them with His love. But because of His eternal plans for goodness, He can't always do that. I don't know why, but i believe He has a greater good than healing our temporary pain.
Susan May Warren
#84. There is a light that can only be found on the other side of darkness, there is a peace that can only be found on the other side of struggle, there is a faith that can only be found on the other side of doubt, and there is a healing that can only be found on the other side of pain.
Sarah Holman
#85. Sometimes pain is the call of a wound that needs tending, and sometimes it is the sting of its healing.
Melissa Febos
#86. Come, and see the victories of the cross. Christ's wounds are thy healings, His agonies thy repose, His conflicts thy conquests, His groans thy songs, His pains thine ease, His shame thy glory, His death thy life, His sufferings thy salvation.
Matthew Henry
#87. Bringing light of our personal and social consciousness to dark corridors of human pain that have long been neglected and suppress.
William Keepin
#88. That is the way it is with a wound. The wound begins to close in on itself, to protect what is hurting so much. And once it is closed, you no longer see what is underneath, what started the pain.
Amy Tan
#89. But there is a difference between curing and healing, and I believe the church is called to the slow and difficult work of healing. We are called to enter into one another's pain, anoint it as holy, and stick around no matter the outcome. In her
Rachel Held Evans
#90. As this pain comes up also focus on the love you feel for him/her. Focus on the love. Love feels good, love is expansive. Love is open and accepting. This love you feel is healing the pain of your loss. One day soon your pain will go and only the love will remain.
John Gray
#91. Crossing the Ring of Fire is..moving from the emotional shutdown of numbness through the flames of fear and entering into the healing arms of change.
David W. Earle
#92. And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.
Jenim Dibie
#93. Crisis is what suppressed pain looks like; it always comes to the surface. It shakes you into reflection and healing.
Bryant McGill
#94. This is a book which I would recommend to anyone who is walking through the pain of abuse. A book of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; a book which will touch your heart and give you hope.
Ruth Hawkey
#96. What inflicts the mind, inflicts the body. What inflicts the soul inflicts the body. Physical wounds heal much quicker but spiritual, emotional and spiritual wounds takes much longer of healing.
Ann Marie Aguilar
#97. But where pain was, healing could come; where loneliness was, new relationships could be formed; where rejection was, new love could be found. It was a moment. And moments changed. She would have to live through the moment to get to the next.
Cecelia Ahern
#98. There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy - anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.
Stephen King
#99. Surrender your pain, look within and see your perfect and divine self.
Earthschool Harmony
#100. The pain you have gone through will give you the strength of character to come through it all, so long as you learn from what you have suffered then it was not suffering at all.
Stephen Richards
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