The 20 Best Quotes About Healing

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Quotes and mantras can be very helpful in the healing process. Sometimes when I feel down or discouraged an affirmation pops into my head, "Never, ever, ever give up," or "Be gentle with yourself, you're doing the best you can," and I feel a little better.

If you've perused this blog you may have noticed I love quotes. I put a quote at the end of every post. Quotes inspire, help you see things in a different way, and are good reminders. 
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Here are 20 of my all time favorites. You may have seen some of them throughout the blog: 

The 20 Best Quotes About Healing:

1. "Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it." - Tori Amos

2. "Standing at that impossible junction, we can make a radical choice. We can learn to fly." - Martha Beck

3. "We are like the birds. We adapt. We sing." - David Byrne

4. "You can damage the brain, you can damage the body, but the center of...the person you meet...she was whole." - Karen Cavanagh

5. "Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know." - Pema Chodron

6. "Ring the bells that still can ring, forget your perfect offering. There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

7. "She stood in the storm and when the wind did not blow her away, she adjusted her sails." - Elizabeth Edwards ​

8. "Getting over a painful event is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward." - C.S. Lewis

9. "Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure." - Phyllis McGinley
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10. "The body knows things a long time before the mind catches up to them." - Sue Monk Kidd

​​11. "I am better off healed than I ever was unbroken." - Beth Moore 

12. "When an illness is part of your spiritual journey no medical intervention can heal you until your spirit has begun to make the changes that the illness was designed to inspire." - Caroline Myss 

13. "Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'" - Mary Anne Radmacher

14. "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 

15. "So, what if, instead of thinking about solving your whole life, you just think about adding additional good things. One at a time. Just let your pile of good things grow." - Rainbow Rowell

16. "The wish for healing has always been half of health." - Lucius Annaeus Seneca

​17. "The stars we are given. The constellations we make." - Rebecca Solnit 

18. "Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal." - Cheryl Strayed ​

19. "I’m not telling you it's going to be easy. I’m telling you it's going to be worth it." - Art Williams

20. "Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is." - Gary Zukav

Do you have a favorite from the list above? What mantra or quote helps your healing? Spread the inspiration and share with us below. 

And since I always end each blog post with a quote, here is a bonus: 

"All healing is first a healing of the heart." - Carl Townsend