In times of sorrow you may feel that no one in the world has ever experienced pain as deep as you are experiencing right now. Your heart is aching, tears stream down your face. You are hurting. Friends and family offer you their well intended love and advice, but what do they know? To help you find your personal road to recovery, here are some uplifting words of inspiration. Explore these healing quotes. I hope they speak to you - some will make you sad, some will stir up your pain or anger, others will inspire you to love again. See if a few simple quotes on healing might change your day, your life, or your world.

The walls we build around us to keep out the sadness also keep out the joy.
Jim Rohn

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Leo Buscaglia

It's supposed to be a professional secret, but I'll tell you anyway. We doctors do nothing. We only help and encourage the doctor within. We are at best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.
Albert Schweitzer

All of us are scarred by life; It's just that some scars show more clearly than others. Our scars tell us that we have lived.
Diana Golden

By far the strongest poison to the human spirit is the inability to forgive oneself or another person. Forgiveness is no longer an option but a necessity for healing.
Caroline Myss

When a child is hurt or sick what happens? It reaches out to you for comfort. It reaches out to you and wants to be held. It wants to feel your touch. It needs to feel your love. To breath your love. And how are you any different than the child when you are hurt and sick?
Ian Paul Marshall

The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.
Allen Klein

One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.
Paramahansa Yogananda

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost

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

Healing is the journey. The destination is yourself. The full recognition of all the different aspects of yourself - your joy, your sorrow, your pain, your pleasure - all lead you to the source of who you are. Only by having intimate contact with this source can you experience the fullness of your life. Only by fearlessly looking within can you embrace the landscape of your life and open yourself completely to all the love and compassion that lives inside you.
Philip Berk

There are as many nights as days, and the one is just as long as the other in the year's course. Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl Jung

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
Harry Crews

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who tried, for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.
Unknown

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

Slowing down is probably the most important thing we can do... For healing to take place - and it only takes place in the present.
Barbara Joseph

Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing in at someone else - you are the one who gets burned.
Buddha

There is no remedy for love but to love more.
Henry David Thoreau

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell

Grief can awaken us to new values and new and deeper appreciations. Grief can cause us to reprioritize things in our lives, to recognize what's really important and put it first. Grief can heighten our gratitude as we cease taking the gifts life bestows on us for granted. Grief can give us the wisdom of being with death. Grief can make death the companion on our left who guides us and gives us advice.
Roger Bertschausen

Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.
Saint Francis de Sales

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

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

I’m going to smile and make you think I’m happy, I’m going to laugh, so you don’t see me cry, I’m going to let you go in style, and even if it kills me - I’m going to smile.
Unknown

Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.
Lewis B. Smedes

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