Healing is the ability to become healthy, to restore the mind, body and soul to its original state. We play a very important role in our own recovery. Here are some quotes that will encourage you to heal yourself.

Inspiring Healing Quotes

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

“We need to give each other the space to grow, to be ourselves, to exercise our diversity. We need to give each other space so that we may both give and receive such beautiful things as ideas, openness, dignity, joy, healing, and inclusion.” Max de Pree

“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. And you have to work really, really, really hard to get there, but you can do it.” Cheryl Strayed

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

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

“Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you’re not hurting the person you hate. You’re hurting yourself. And that’s a healing. Actually, it’s a real healing, forgiveness.” Louis Zamperini

“It’s time to start thinking differently about money and debt and start the healing process – and the process toward wealth and freedom. ‘Freedom from Bad Debt’ can get you started.” Robert Kiyosaki

“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

“Every essential oil has a healing purpose, so I think it’s a great gift because it’s something that elevates your mood and your health.” Yolanda Hadid

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

“Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all, we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.” Thich Nhat Hanh

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” Yoko Ono

“Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes loves.” Maza Dohta

“You can’t afford to get sick, and you can’t depend on the present health care system to keep you well. It’s up to you to protect and maintain your body’s innate capacity for health and healing by making the right choices in how you live.” Andrew Weil

“Meditation is key. It’s a crazy world we live in. Everything’s happening so fast in our world, so to take a moment and clear the mind and just be totally present is so healing. I want to meditate more.” Jamie Anderson

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

“Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.” Nate Parker

“As much as you can eat healthy, it’s also important to remember to drink healthy too. Tea is very healing.” Kristin Chenoweth

“There’s definitely healing properties to being in proximity to the ocean and that breeze. There’s something about that Caribbean climate and humidity.” Johnny Depp

“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

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

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” Marianne Williamson

“Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, it also has actual health benefits. And that’s because laughter completely engages the body and releases the mind. It connects us to others, and that in itself has a healing effect.” Marlo Thomas

“Reconciliation is a part of the healing process, but how can there be healing when the wounds are still being inflicted?” N. K. Jemisin

“Healing rain is a real touch from God. It could be physical healing or emotional or whatever.” Michael W. Smith

“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

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

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” Hippocrates

“Everybody has losses – it’s unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.” Isabel Allende

“Words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.” Sarah Fielding

“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