88 Inspirational Healing Quotes for the Soul (HOPE)

Top 14 Most Famous Healing Quotes (BEST)

“Did I offer peace today? Did I bring a smile to someone’s face? Did I say words of healing? Did I let go of my anger and resentment? Did I forgive? Did I love? These are the real questions. I must trust that the little bit of love that I sow now will bear many fruits, here in this world and the life to come.”
Henri Nouwen

Healing yourself is connected with healing others. - Yoko Ono — Healing yourself is connected with healing others. – Yoko Ono

Nothing is so healing as the human touch. - Bobby Fischer — Nothing is so healing as the human touch. – Bobby Fischer

If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world. - Deepak Chopra — If you restore balance in your own self, you will be contributing immensely to the healing of the world. – **Deepak Chopra**

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. - Dalai Lama — Our prime **purpose** in this **life** is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them. – **Dalai Lama**

“Nobody escapes being wounded. We are all wounded people, whether physically, emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. The main question is not, ‘How can we hide our wounds?’ so we don’t have to be embarrassed, but ‘How can we put our woundedness in the service of others?’ When our wounds cease to be a source of shame, and become a source of healing, we have become wounded healers.”
Henri Nouwen

Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity. - Hippocrates — Healing is a matter of **time**, but it is sometimes also a matter of **opportunity**. – **Hippocrates**

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. - Sarah Fielding — The words of **kindness** are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey. – Sarah Fielding

“It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.”
Carli Lloyd

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

An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. - Tarana Burke — An exchange of **empathy** provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. – Tarana Burke

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

Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. - Gautama Buddha — Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with **compassion**. – **Gautama Buddha**

16 Wise Quotes About Healing (WISDOM)

“Ten years ago, I still feared loss enough to abandon myself in order to keep things stable. I’d smile when I was sad, pretend to like people who appalled me. What I now know is that losses aren’t cataclysmic if they teach the heart and soul their natural cycle of breaking and healing.”
Martha Beck

Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. - Lord Byron — Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine. – **Lord Byron**

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 — 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

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing. - Leonard Nimoy — I’m touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful – collecting these shards of spirituality – that we may be helping to bring about a healing. – Leonard Nimoy

A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal. - John Eldredge — A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal. – John Eldredge

“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

There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. - Anne Wilson Schaef — There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in **technology**, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal. – Anne Wilson Schaef

Healing requires from us to stop struggling, but to enjoy life more and endure it less. - Darina Stoyanova — Healing requires from us to stop struggling, but to enjoy life more and endure it less. – Darina Stoyanova

Awareness is the first step in healing. - Dean Ornish — Awareness is the first step in healing. – Dean Ornish

“My own path towards wellness has been a long and dynamic one. It’s taught me that healing from the inside out takes time and there can be great value in various sources of guidance.”
Carre Otis

When I stand before thee at the day's end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. - Rabindranath Tagore — When I stand before thee at the day’s end, thou shalt see my scars and know that I had my wounds and also my healing. – Rabindranath Tagore

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place. - David Hume — It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place. – **David Hume**

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

What happens when people open their hearts They get better. - Haruki Murakami — What happens when people open their hearts? They get better. – **Haruki Murakami**

Healing comes when we choose to walk away from darkness and move towards a brighter light. - Dieter F. Uchtdorf — Healing comes when we choose to walk away from darkness and move towards a brighter light. – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not. - Mooji — The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not. – Mooji

Top 10 Most Encouraging Quotes About Healing

“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

Let the future say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of hope and that we worked together to heal the world. - Jeffrey Sachs — Let the **future** say of our generation that we sent forth mighty currents of **hope** and that we worked together to heal the world. – Jeffrey Sachs

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. - Caroline Myss — The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The **challenge** is to silence the mind. – Caroline Myss

The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. - Hippocrates — The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. – Hippocrates

“It has been said, ‘time heals all wounds.’ I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.”
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. - Helen Keller — All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. – **Helen Keller**

The wound is the place where the Light enters you. - Rumi — The wound is the place where the Light enters you. – **Rumi**

Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. - David Richo — Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. – David Richo

The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson — The only work that will ultimately bring any good to any of us is the work of contributing to the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson

Humor is healing. - Brad Garrett — Humor is healing. – Brad Garrett

Top 6 Healing quotes on Forgiveness

“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

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 — 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

To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing. - Sylvia Fraser — To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing. – Sylvia Fraser

The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson — The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world. – **Marianne Williamson**

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 — 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

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing. - Ruth Carter Stapleton — Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing. – Ruth Carter Stapleton

2 Healing Quotes on God and Religion

“The work of healing is not my work, but by faith, healing is done. The work of deliverance, great and mighty deliverance, is not my work but is my faith in Him. It is not the works of righteousness which I have done, but according to His grace. I am a product of His grace.”
T. B. Joshua

“Religion is part of the human make-up. It’s also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.”
Christopher Hitchens

2 Healing Quotes on Change

“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

Change, like healing, takes time. - Veronica Roth — Change, like healing, takes time. – **Veronica Roth**

4 Healing Quotes on Sharing Your Feelings and Working Together

It's when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it's when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. - David Hume — It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place… it’s when we start spilling our sweat, and not our blood. – David Hume

Everybody has losses – it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing. - Isabel Allende — Everybody has losses – it’s unavoidable in life. **Sharing** our pain is very healing. – Isabel Allende

Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. - Jerry Cantrell — Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care. – Jerry Cantrell

Being able to give someone a hug from the heart, it's healing. It's healing for yourself and healing for others, and we need a lot of that. - Big Show — Being able to give someone a **hug** from the heart, it’s healing. It’s healing for yourself and healing for others, and we need a lot of that. – Big Show

4 Healing Quotes on Being Outdoors

“I don’t think you can climb Mount Everest with a broken leg, but I did break my leg prior to going to Mount Everest, so I was really climbing with a healing broken leg. I had the good fortune of climbing the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. That was a goal that I had.”
Gary Johnson

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 — 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**

The wilderness is healing, a therapy for the soul. - Nicholas Kristof — The wilderness is healing, a **therapy** for the soul. – Nicholas Kristof

“I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.”
Wendell Berry

5 Uplifting Healing Quotes on the Power of Music

“Gospel music to me has always been a balm for the soul. It has been able to usher in the spirit, usher in worship, true worship and praise, healing. I find the music to be very good at healing and the passion, you know, which is a testimony being told in song.”
Kim Fields

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. - Billy Joel — I think music in itself is healing. It’s an explosive expression of **humanity**. It’s something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we’re from, everyone loves music. – Billy Joel

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. - Reba McEntire — For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness. – Reba McEntire

“I believe music is like medicine. Like a good tonic, it can open your mind, strengthen and possibly even cure you. Music can work on many levels, and nothing I know of possesses the healing force that exists within music.”
Burning Spear

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. - Elton John — Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours. – Elton John

5 Healing Quotes on Friendship and Love

“The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing… that is a friend who cares.”
Henri Nouwen

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau — There is no remedy for love but to love more. – **Henry David Thoreau**

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 — 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

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

To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life - and so I speak up. - India Arie — To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up. – India Arie

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. - Hubert H. Humphrey — The greatest healing therapy is **friendship** and love. – Hubert H. Humphrey

5 Healing Quotes on Medical Recovery

“As any doctor can tell you, the most crucial step toward healing is having the right diagnosis. If the disease is precisely identified, a good resolution is far more likely. Conversely, a bad diagnosis usually means a bad outcome, no matter how skilled the physician.”
Andrew Weil

It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. - Norman Cousins — It is reasonable to expect the doctor to recognize that science may not have all the answers to problems of health and healing. – Norman Cousins

“If I were rewriting ‘Love, Medicine & Miracles,’ I might consider changing its title to ‘The Side Effects of Cancer.’ Healing is hard work, as is any change one must make in one’s life. I and others have learned, however, that the side effects of cancer may not all be bad ones.”
Bernie Siegel

“I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness – that there is something wrong.”
Wayne Dyer

“Snakes are sometimes perceived as evil, but they are also perceived as medicine. If you look at an ambulance, there’s the two snakes on the side of the ambulance. The caduceus, or the staff of Hermes, there’s the two snakes going up it, which means that the venom can also be healing.”
Nicolas Cage

5 Healing Quotes on Restoring Lands

Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. - Marianne Williamson — Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. – Marianne Williamson

People and land need healing which is all inclusive - holistic. - Allan Savory — People and land need healing which is all inclusive – holistic. – Allan Savory

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time. - Immaculee Ilibagiza — I believe that we can heal Rwanda – and our world – by healing one heart at a time. – Immaculee Ilibagiza

When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. - David Orr — When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. – David Orr

Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet. - Thich Nhat Hanhv — Every step taken in **mindfulness** brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet. – Thich Nhat Hanh

3 Healing Quotes on Art

I've always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. - James Polshek — I’ve always seen architecture as a healing art, not just as a beautification art. – James Polshek

Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. - Linda Ronstadt — Art is for healing ourselves, and everybody needs their own personal art to heal up their problems. – Linda Ronstadt

Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love. - Maza Dohta — Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love. – Maza Dohta

Top 8 Healing Quotes that Will Make You Think & Ponder

“I’m always happy when people choose to get another dog because it’s a healthy and healing thing to do, and there are millions of them needing homes. But there is no single time frame to do it in because grieving is an intensely personal experience.”
Jon Katz

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. - Phyllis McGinley — Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. – Phyllis McGinley

The soul is healed by being with children. - Fyodor Dostoyevsky — The soul is healed by being with **children**. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. - Malcolm Fraser — We are seeing healing among the stolen generations, and initiatives which are enabling Indigenous people to make their distinctive contribution to our national life. – Malcolm Fraser

“When I meet children and people who suffer, when they mention any kind of pain, emotional pain, physical pain, I know what they need, because it’s the same thing I need. They need healing, they need peace, they need joy, they need hope.”
Phan Thi Kim Phuc