Writing And Healing Quotes

#1. The process of writing a book has given me a whole new reverence for writers. Mechanically, it is a brutal process; emotionally, it's incredibly healing.

Cory Booker

#2. Perhaps defining a self begins with simply making the first choice, simply rising up and deciding what you desire, and then methodically, like writing, putting one word after the other until you have created a whole self and a whole life in the process.

Michele Rosenthal

#3. Journal writing is a wonderful pathway to self-awareness.

Rand Olson

#4. The stories that are too personally vulnerable to write are the ones that must be told.

Mat Kearney

#5. I suppose that I did for myself what psychoanalysts do for their patients. I expressed some very long felt and deeply felt emotion. And in expressing it I explained it and then laid it to rest.

Virginia Woolf

#6. Creativity is salve for the soul

Phillip Gary Smith

#7. Never admit the possibility of failure, or speak in a way that infers failure as a possibility.

Wallace D. Wattles

#8. Why write a book on uncovering past lives? Because the benefits for personal empowerment, healing, and enlightenment are tremendous.

Ted Andrews

#9. Writing is very cathartic for me. As a teacher, I hear many students say that writing can be painful and exhausting. It can be, but ultimately I believe that if you push through, the process is healing and exhilarating.

Francesca Lia Block

#10. It's a phenomenal experience jumping from the devious mind of a sorceress bent on conquering the world to the compassionate musing of a queen capable of healing life with a touch - all in a flicker of thought. That's why I love writing.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. In writing practice, there's no direction. You enter your own mind and follow it where it takes you. We have a great need to connect with our own mind and our own true self. And all of us have a story to tell.

Natalie Goldberg

#12. Love is the beauty of being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Writing is a fearsome but grand vocation - potentially healing but likewise deadly. I wouldn't trade my life for the world.

Reynolds Price

#14. Write about a terrible experience until you find value in having gone through it. Then you will appreciate every dark hour.

Jan Marquart

#15. The proper study of a wise man is not how to die but how to live.

Baruch Spinoza

#16. People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.

LaToya Jackson

#17. I think we draw people into our lives ... It's as though we broadcast our deepest needs ... For better or worse, we attract our teachers, our allies, and sometimes even our own nightmares.

Lisa Unger

#18. In the end, writing is not a full step toward self-healing, just a tiny, very tentative move in that direction.

Haruki Murakami

#19. My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes.

Robert Bly

#20. I'm just not in a writing mood, but I keep going. What if the garbage man were not in a garbage mood? or the doctor not in a healing mood?

Jean Nicole Rivers

#21. Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on a blank piece of paper. It has its own healing power and it gives me a feeling of contentment. Very addictive, yet it is not a criminal act.

Sonnia Kemmer

#22. Writing is a way of processing our lives. And it can be a way of healing.

Jan Karon

#23. The thing about writing is I can't tell if it's healing or destroying me.

Rupi Kaur

#24. I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

Zayn Malik

#25. And on the days I couldn't breathe, I learned to paint air.

Jenim Dibie

#26. I don't want to be safe," he said. "I want to be with you

Cassandra Clare

#27. You have to validate yourself first, and then you will receive the much-deserved healing validation from the rest of the world.

A.D. Posey

#28. Writing is more than just a method to tell stories. It's a way to find healing, and to healing others.

M. Kirin

#29. Sharing our stories can also be a means of healing. Grief and loss may isolate us, and anger may alienate us. Shared with others, these emotions can be powerfully uniting, as we see that we are not alone, and realize that others weep with us.

Susan Wittig Albert

#30. As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

James W. Pennebaker

#31. But what am I to do? I must have some drug, and reading isn't a strong enough drug now. By writing it all down (all? - no: one thought in a hundred) I believe I get a little outside it. That's how I'd defend it to H. But ten to one she'd see a hole in the defence.

C.S. Lewis

#32. The U.S. should be equally responsible for diminishing the cocaine market within the United States as it is in fighting the drug elsewhere.

Evo Morales

#33. As for the healing, that comes from the writing, from living and writing. That's my catharsis. That's why I never regret sharing because it's part of my healing!

Karrine Steffans

#34. So many people come to church with a genuine desire to hear what we have to say, yet they are always going back home with the uncomfortable feeling that we are making it too difficult for them to come to Jesus.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#35. Writing therapy is my form of healing. Try and detach yourself from painful memories by infusing characters and then stepping back.

Phil Wohl