"I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me."
— Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia)

"And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore."
— Anne Lamott (Operating Instructions: A Journal of My Son's First Year)

"Someone smashed a flutterfler and without even thinking she touched her Stone and used Wyrd to piece its broken body back together. She filled its empty vessels with dreams and it became the stuff it used for blood. It brushed her cheek with its wings, then flew off -- dancing in the hot air."
— Robert Fanney

"Well, label me very impressed and ship me to Carthak!"
— Tamora Pierce

"As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
— Martin Luther King Jr.

"I will take away your means of escape."
— Natsuki Takaya

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

"Don't ever discount the wonder of your tears. They can he healing waters and a stream of joy. Sometimes they are the best words the heart can speak."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

"Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence."
— Tony Samara

"With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you."
— Osho

"One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach to the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don't leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind."
— Osho

"I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing, and I know that grace rarely makes sense for those looking in from the outside."
— William P. Young (The Shack)

"Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity"
— Tony Samara

"Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much."
— P.D. James (Innocent Blood)

"When you heal yourself, let it be in aloneness.
When you find your own, let it take time.
When you search your heart, let it be in silence."
— C.A. Cruz

"In time, in time they tell me, I'll not feel so bad. I don't want time to heal me. There's a reason I'm like this.
I want time to set me ugly and knotted with loss of you, marking me. I won't smooth you away.
I can't say goodbye."
— China Miéville (The Scar)

"A scar is not an injury, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After an injury, a scar is what makes you whole."
— China Miéville (The Scar)

"We all have the ability to heal ourselves; I know, I have done so...
In the morning, know that you are Loved, You Are Love and You Love"
— Lisa Bellini

"Consider the holiness of your hands. They are how you do your work on this earth; they are a microcosm of the hands of the Goddess, and can change the world as easily as hers can."
— Dianne Sylvan (Body Sacred)

"DESTINY (Determined Effort So Tanacious It Negates Yuck)"
— Frank Chase Jr

"Wounding and healing are not opposites. They're part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to to find other people or to even know they're alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. "
— Rachel Naomi Remen

"Time heals all wounds."
— Stephen King Hearts in Atlantis

"And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass."
— John Christopher (The Sword of the Spirits)

"By the grace of the Lady, whose face mirrors my own, may I ever remember I am made in her image, blessed and beautiful."
— Dianne Sylvan (Body Sacred)

"We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment."
— Michael Jackson

"
Elder's Meditation of the Day - February 18
"laughter is a necessity in life that does not cost much, and the Old Ones say that one of the greatest healing powers in our life is the ability to laugh."
--Larry P. Aitken, CHIPPEWA
Laughter is a good stress eliminator. Laughter causes healing powers to be distributed through our bodies. Laughter helps heal relationships that are having problems. Laughter can change other people. Laughter can heal the sick. Laughter is spiritual. One of the greatest gifts among Indian people has been our ability to laugh. Humor is natural to Indian people. Sometimes the only thing left to do is laugh.

Great Spirit, allow me to laugh when times get tough.


"
— Larry P. Aitken (Two Cultures Meet: Pathways for American Indians to Medicine)

"Nature cannot be commanded except by being obeyed."
— Francis Bacon

"It was your body....that danced at your first drum circle; it was your body that gave birth to your child; it was your body that got down and dirty in the back seat of your dad's station wagon; it was your body that shivered, sweated, clasped its hands, fell to its knees, wept, and laughed the first time you felt the presence of the goddess in your life."
— Dianne Sylvan (Body Sacred)

"...she is careful who she sleeps with, because only those willing totreat her witht he same reverence are worthy of her attention.

...you are the Goddess, and "all acts of love and pleasure" are your rituals"
— Dianne Sylvan

"Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal."
— Laura Fitzgerald (Veil of Roses)

"This stuff of a past not worthily lived is also medicine."
— Joan Halifax (The Fruitful Darkness: A Journey Through Buddhist Practice and Tribal Wisdom)

"It was a long time since he'd done any actual clinical work, and obviously his sojourn among the academics at Saro University had attenuated the professional detachment that allows members of the healing arts to confront the ill without being overwhelmed by compassion and sorrow. He was surprised at that, how tenderhearted he seemed to have become, how thin-skinned."
— Isaac Asimov (Nightfall)

"You are free to choose your own way of life, but you are not free to choose the results. "
— Herbert M. Shelton (Getting Well)

"Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
"
— Rachel Naomi Remen

"She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. In that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him. (223)"
— David Wroblewski (The Story of Edgar Sawtelle)