165+ Unique Healing Quotes to Help You Recover From Pain

Healing Quotes: Every one of us has to face some challenges every moment in life. And overcome those challenges, we all have to face some difficult situation at times in life. Sometimes you have to face physical illness, injury or pain and sometimes you have to face mental pain. Whether your pain is physical or psychological, it takes some time to heal. The healing process can sometimes be slow or quick process. During that time, it is important to be surrounded by loved ones and people who care about you, who can help you your journey back to a healthy life. Plus, some powerful Healing Quotes or words to give you courage, can help you stay positive and keep you fighting on your journey to recover. Here we have collected some powerful Healing Quotes for you. If you are looking for some powerful Healing Quotes then you have come to the right page.


Whether if you’re suffering from physical or emotional pain, our collection of powerful Healing Quotes can help you feel energized and rejuvenated. These healing quotes come from people who themselves have suffered from physical or emotional pain at some point in their lives. These powerful Healing Quotes will encourage you so you can move on with life by healing physical and emotional pain. So, without wasting time let’s read these powerful Healing Quotes.

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1. “Pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.”  – Lance Armstrong

2. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”  – Oprah Winfrey

3. “Change, like healing, takes time.” – Veronica Roth

4. “Only time can heal what reason cannot.” – Seneca

5. “Only time can heal your broken heart.” – Miss Piggy

6. “Wounds heal. Love lasts. We remain.” – Kristin Hannah

7. “Once you start laughing, you start healing.”  – Sherry Argov

8. “Bones are stronger once they heal.”  – Charlotte Eriksson

9. “The wound is the place where the Light enters you.” – Rumi

10. “Our deepest wounds surround our greatest gifts.”  – Ken Page

11. “Let go of all your hurts and be healed.” – Lailah Gifty Akita

12. “Let it hurt. Let it bleed. Let it heal. And let it go.” – Nikita Gill

13. “A good half of the art of living is resilience.” – Alain de Botton

14. “It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other” – Tupac Shakur

15. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

16. “Do not look for healing at the feet of those who broke you.” – Rupi Kaur

17. “Even when you heal, you’re never what you were before.”  – Cassandra Clare

18. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.” –Maya Angelou

19. “It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

20. “We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”  – Marcel Proust

21. “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”  – Steve Maraboli

22. “Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”  – Roy T. Bennett

23. “Take life’s experiences and build strength from them, not weakness.”  – Rudolfo Anaya

24. “Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz

25. “I truly believe that while love can hurt, love can also heal.” – Nicholas Sparks

26. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us.” – David Richo

27. “Just like there’s always time for pain, there’s always time for healing.” – Jennifer Brown

28. “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world.”  – Marianne Williamson

29. “I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order.” – John Burroughs

30. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli

31. “The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.”  – Robert Jordan

32. “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”  – Caroline Myss

33. “You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again.”  – Fyodor Dostoevsky

34. “I’ve found time can heal most anything and you just might find who you’re supposed to be.” – Taylor Swift

35. “Scars are not signs of weakness, they are signs of survival and endurance.” – Rodney A. Winters

36. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it…” – Nicholas Sparks

37. “A wound that goes unacknowledged and unwept is a wound that cannot heal.” – John Eldredge

38. “Healing is your right, your responsibility and the risk you can’t afford not to take.” – Thaiia Senquetta

39. “Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav

40. “Scars are not injuries. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.” – China Miéville

41. “How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?” – William Shakespeare

42. “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” – Marcus Aurelius

43. “The healing power of God is working in me right now. Every day I get better and better in every way.” – Joyce Meyer

44. “If the fire in your heart is strong enough, it will burn away any obstacles that come your way.”  – Suzy Kassem

45. “Close your eyes, forget everything that hurts you and dream love, kindness, and compassion.” – M.F. Moonzajer

46. “Only love heals. Anger, guilt, and fear can only destroy and separate you from your true capabilities.” – Alyson Noel

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

48. “Strong people alone know how to organize their suffering so as to bear only the most necessary pain.” – Emil Dorian

49. “Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.” – Erin McCarthy

50. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.”  – Jodi Picoult

51. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.”  – Kahlil Gibran

52. “We are all broken and wounded in this world. Some choose to grow strong at the broken places.” – Harold J. Duarte-Bernhardt

53. “I wonder if this is how people always get close: They heal each other’s wounds; they repair the broken skin.” – Lauren Oliver

54. “The good news is you survived. The bad news is you’re hurt and no one can heal you but yourself.” – Clementine von Radics

55. “We can heal. Perhaps we can return to that same place we once stood, when we were both young and innocent.”  – Marie Lu

56. “The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it’s been broken into a million pieces.”  – Robert James Waller

57. “A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

58. “And in the end, we were all just humans… drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.” – Christopher Poindexter

59. “Time heals all wounds. And if it doesn’t, you name them something other than wounds and agree to let them stay.” – Emma Forrest

60. “Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me, they are proof of the fact that there is healing.” – Linda Hogan

61. “For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.” – Alice Miller

62. “When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.” – Iyanla Vanzant

63. “Laughter not only provides a cushion to our emotional hurts but also helps us in dealing with the jolts of life effectively.” – Balroop Singh

64. “Everyone breaks a little sometimes. That doesn’t make you weak. It makes you wounded. And I will always be there to help you heal” – J. Kenner

65. “Those who have hurt you in the past cannot continue to hurt you now unless you hold on to the pain through resentment.”  – Rick Warren

66. “Healing old hurts can only begin when the children we once were feel safe enough to speak their hearts to the adults we are now.” – L.R. Knost

67. “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.”  – Ed Sullivan

68. “Everybody needs beauty… places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul alike.” – John Muir

69. “Resilience is not about being able to bounce back like nothing has happened. Resilience is your consistent resistance to give up.” –Janna Cecola

70. “You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can’t see the wound doesn’t mean it isn’t hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.” – Jodi Picoult

71. “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

72. “It is important for people to know that no matter what lies in their past, they can overcome the dark side and press on to a brighter world.”  – Dave Pelzer

73. “When we have difficult relationships, God often uses them as gifts in our lives—to shape us, conform us to His Son, and make us gutsier and stronger.” – Mary E. DeMuth

74. “There was no part of him that was not broken, that had not healed wrong, and there was no part of him that was not stronger for having been broken.” – Leigh Bardugo

75. “Other people are going to find healing in your wounds. Your greatest life messages and your most effective ministry will come out of your deepest hurts.”  – Rick Warren

76. “Maybe time didn’t heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.”  – Kristin Hannah

77. “Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them.”  – Leo Tolstoy

78. “And so I wait. I wait for time to heal the pain and raise me to my feet once again – so that I can start a new path, my own path, the one that will make me whole again.”  – Jack Canfield

79. “Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”   – C.S. Lewis

80. “It takes courage to let go of the past and all the mechanisms you have put in place, in order to ease your pain, regret, and fear through avoiding responsibility for it.” – Shannon L. Alder

81. “It is only with true love and compassion that we can begin to mend what is broken in the world. It is these two blessed things that can begin to heal all broken hearts.”  – Steve Maraboli

82. “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.”  – Wm. Paul Young

83. “Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To be healed we must come with all the other creatures to the feast of Creation.” – Wendell Berry

84. “Pain’s like water. It finds a way to push through any seal. There’s no way to stop it. Sometimes you have to let yourself sink inside of it before you can learn how to swim to the surface.” – Katie Kacvinsky

85. “If so, then it was also here where I came to know I can survive what hurts. I believed in my capacity to stand back up and run into the waves, again and again, no matter the risk.”  – Terry Tempest Williams

86. “There is a saying in Tibetan, ‘Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.’ No matter what sort of difficulties, how painful experience is, if we lose our hope, that’s our real disaster.” – Dalai Lama

87. “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

88. “Forgiveness has nothing to do with absolving a criminal of his crime. It has everything to do with relieving oneself of the burden of being a victim – letting go of the pain and transforming oneself from victim to survivor.” – C.R. Strahan

89. “You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.” – Louise L. Hay

90. “Healing wasn’t always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.” – Ann Brashares

91. “We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives.”  – Bo Sanchez

92. “Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. It is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self. Therefore, trust the physician and drink his remedy in silence and tranquility.” – Khalil Gibran

93. “Reconnect to what makes you happy and brings you Joy. If there is something that used to make you happy which you have stopped doing, do it again. Seek to find deeper meaning and significance rather than living on the surface.” – Susan C. Young

94. “Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good.”  – Elizabeth Edwards

95. “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

96. “Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature – the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter.”  – Rachel Carson

97. “Life is full of hurts, and it always will be. As long as you live, people are going to offend you, hurt you, and disappoint you. But you needn’t let their actions control your response and outlook on life. You can learn to rise above life’s disappointments.”  – Prince Akwarandu

98. “Do yourself a favor and forgive anyone that has anything against you. Do it as an act of faith and trust God to change and heal your emotions. Pray for your enemies and never say another unkind thing about them. It is the only way you can move past the pain and begin to heal.” – Joyce Meyer

99. “Don’t be ashamed to weep; ’tis right to grieve. Tears are only water, and flowers, trees, and fruit cannot grow without water. But there must be sunlight also. A wounded heart will heal in time, and when it does, the memory and love of our lost ones is sealed inside to comfort us.”  – Brian Jacques

100. “Every time you hurt, you heal. After darkness, there is always light and you get reminded of this every morning but still, you choose to believe that the night will last forever. Nothing lasts forever. Not the good or the bad. So you might as well smile while you’re here.”  – Iain S. Thomas

101. “I have learned that because of pain, I can feel the beauty, tenderness, and freedom of healing. Pain feels like a fast stab wound to the heart. But then healing feels like the wind against your face when you are spreading your wings and flying through the air!”  – C. JoyBell C.

102. “When a river of tears and a load of grief keep on flowing from a mountain of broken trust, feelings may relentlessly besiege the stronghold of our flesh. Only a timely adjustment with our mental compass can shore up confidence, resilience; and reliance.”  – Erik Pevernagie

103. “The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.”  – Gordon B. Hinckley

104. “There will be times in your life when things simply have to be replaced because they are tired, broken, worn out, harmful, outdated, or irrelevant. Take an inventory of the things that no longer serve your best and highest good so you can replace them with things which do.” – Susan C. Young

105. “To be rendered powerless does not destroy your humanity. Your resilience is your humanity. The only people who lose their humanity are those who believe they have the right to render another human being powerless. They are the weak. To yield and not break, that is incredible strength.” – Hannah Gadsby

106. “The events of the past year have taught me much about myself, and a few universal truths. I learned, for instance, that while wounds can be inflicted easily upon those we love, it’s often much more difficult to heal them. Yet the process of healing those wounds provided the richest experience of my life.” – Nicholas Sparks

107. “There is a light in this world. A healing spirit more powerful than any darkness we may encounter. We sometimes lose sight of this force when there is suffering, and too much pain. Then suddenly, the spirit will emerge through the lives of ordinary people who hear a call and answer in extraordinary ways.”  – Richard Attenborough

108. “You can accept or reject the way you are treated by other people, but until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. You must find the strength to open the wounds, stick your hands inside, pull out the core of the pain that is holding you in your past, the memories, and make peace with them” – Iyanla Vanzant

109. “We think that the point is to pass the test or overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don’t really get solved. They come together and they fall apart. Then they come together again and fall apart again. It’s just like that. The healing comes from letting there be room for all of this to happen: room for grief, for relief, for misery, for joy.” – Pema Chödrön

110. “My scars remind me that I did indeed survive my deepest wounds. That in itself is an accomplishment. And they bring to mind something else, too. They remind me that the damage life has inflicted on me has, in many places, left me stronger and more resilient. What hurt me in the past has actually made me better equipped to face the present.”  – Steve Goodier

111. “Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can’t cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It’s just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and 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

Quotes about Healing

112. “It’s not forgetting that heals. It’s remembering.” – Amy Greene, Bloodroot

113. “As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.” – Maya Angelou

114. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Helen Keller

115. “To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” – Stephen Levine

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

117. “Eventually you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is.” – Gary Zukav

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

119. “You’ve been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn’t worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.” – Louise Hay

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

121. “To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.” –  Eckhart Tolle, A New Earth

122. “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

123. “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

124. “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

125. “Any illness is a direct message to you that tells you how you have not been loving who you are, cherishing yourself in order to be who you are. This is the basis of all healing.” – Barbara Brennan

126. “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

127. “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.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Inspirational Quotes About Healing

128. “Humor is healing.” — Brad Garrett

129. “You can heal your body with food.” — Stacy Keibler

130. “To heal from the inside out is the key.” — Wynonna Judd

131. “Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.” — Novalis

132. “If there’s life, there is hope.” – Stephen Hawking

133. “Once you choose hope, anything’s possible.” – Christopher Reeve

134. “Some people cannot be cured, but everyone can heal.” – Unknown

135. “When you go through deep waters I will be with you.” – Isaiah 43:2

136. “A smile doesn’t cost a cent, but draws a lot of interest.” – Unknown

137. “Hope is praying for rain, but faith is bringing an umbrella.” –Unknown

138. “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” — Hippocrates

139. “You just don’t heal that easy unless you’re young.” — Sugar Ray Leonard

140. “We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.” — Marcel Proust

141. “Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.” — Barbara Deming

142. “Love many; trust few. Learn to paddle your own canoe.“ – American Proverb

143. “The sun never quits shining. Sometimes, clouds just get in the way.” – Unknown

144. “The forces that are for you are greater than the forces against you.” – Joel Osteen

145. “Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.” – Abraham Lincoln

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

147. “A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever.” — Jessamyn West

148. “Faith is being sure of what we hope for, and certain of what we do not see.” – Hebrews 11:1

149. “I don’t know what the future may hold, but I know who holds the future.” – Ralph Abernathy

150. “The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.” — Sarah Fielding

151. “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass…It’s about learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene

152. “Let my love like sunlight surround you and yet give you illumined freedom.” – Rabindranath Tagore

153. “We grieve because we love. The intensity of the grief often proclaims the depth of our love.” – Gary Roe

154. “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” – Lao Tzu

155. “Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.” — Nastassja Kinski

156. “Caring for your inner child has a powerful and surprisingly quick result: Do it and the child heals.” — Martha Beck

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

158. “All our infirmities, whatever they are, are just opportunities for God to display his gracious work in us.” – C.H. Spurgeon

159. “Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.” – Samuel Smiles

160. “Our way is not soft grass; it’s a mountain path with lots of rocks. But it goes upwards, forward, toward the sun.” – Ruth Westheimer

161. “If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure. It transcends all barriers.” — Ed Sullivan

162. “In every community, there is work to be done. In every nation, there are wounds to heal. In every heart, there is the power to do it.” — Marianne Williamson

163. “Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.” — Stanislav Grof

164. “Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.” — Ivy Compton-Burnett

165.  “This is the front edge of the spiritual, psychological movement and is where the tools of psychology have finally come together to create a mass healing. I think spiritual psychology is the next wave.” — Kenny Loggins

Conclusion—

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