Healing is an important process for anyone who has gone through physical or mental illness. Because of this, I have found some of the best quotes about healing that are sure to inspire! 🧘🏼♀️
Below, you will find a wide range of spiritual, insightful, motivational, compassionate, and empathetic quotes about healing that are sure to soothe the mind.
Side note: If you think I have missed any famous or iconic quotes about healing, please share them in the comments and I will be sure to include it in future updates! 😃
71+ Insightful Quotes About Healing!
1. “Healing Follows Forgiveness.” – Pat Bluth
2. “Healing is an inside job.” – Dr. B.J. Palmer
3. “Healing is the application of love.” – Iyanla Vanzant
4. “Awareness is the first step in healing.” – Dean Ornish
5. “When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves.” – David Orr
6. “All healing is first a healing of the heart.” – Carl Townsend
7. “It’s not forgetting that heals. It’s remembering.” – Amy Greene
8. “There is no coming to consciousness without pain.” – Carl Jung
9. “Love is the most important healing power there is.” – Louise Hay
10. “Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” – Yoko Ono
11. “Allow yourself to ache. In it, there is healing.” – Naide P Obiang
12. “To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.” – Sylvia Fraser
13. “Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you.” – Heather Davis
14. “Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.” – Ruth Carter Stapleton
Inspiring Quotes About Healing
15. “Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.” – Hippocrates
16. “The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.” – Mooji
17. “When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.” – David Bowles
18. “When you really listen to yourself, you can heal yourself.” – Ceanne Derohan
19. “Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta
20. “No matter how long it takes to heal, we share the same scars.” – Daniel Yanez
21. “Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.” – Albert Camus
22. “Tears are God’s gift to us. Our holy water. They heal us as they flow.” – Rita Schiano
23. “It’s when we start working together that the real healing takes place.” – David Hume
24. “Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” – Joshua Kai
25. “A suffering heart cannot cure another suffering heart, but love can.” – Ephantus Mwenda
26. “The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.” – Stephen Richards
27. “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.” – Hellen Keller
28. “To heal is to touch with love that which we previously touched with fear.” – Stephen Levine
29. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mahatma Gandhi
30. “Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.” – Ricky Skaggs
31. “Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha
Famous Quotes About Healing
32. “Healing requires us to stop struggling, but to enjoy life more and endure it less.” – Darina Stoyanova
33. “Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos
34. “It’s not all about healing yourself; it’s just as important about letting yourself heal.” – Terri Guillemets
35. “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” – Caroline Myss
36. “Progress and healing involve seeing every person as not so different from ourselves.” – Bryant H. McGill
37. “A true healer is the one who heals himself first so others can benefit from his own healing.” – Hong Curley
38. “Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.” – Phyllis McGinley
39. “Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.” – Georg Feuerstein
40. “Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.” – Kathy Magliato
41. “We do not heal the past by dwelling there; we heal the past by living fully in the present.” – Marianne Williamson
42. “Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
43. “The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” – Marianne Williamson
44. “You will be a different person after the storm because the storm will heal you from your perfection.” – Bryant McGill
45. “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.” – Akshay Dubey
46. “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.” – Kahlil Gibran
47. “One of the most healing things you can do is recognize where in your life you are your own poison.” – Steve Maraboli
Quotes About Healing The Spirit
48. “Only when we face the impossible, and experience the unbearable, do we find out who we truly are.” – Vironika Tugaleva
49. “Give it air & let the scar on your soul reveal itself, because, like the body, it too was made to heal itself.” – Curtis Tyrone Jones
50. “The ache will always be there, but the intensity will fade, and you’ll find other beautiful things to fill your days with.” – Lang Leav
51. “We cannot selectively numb emotions. When we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” – Brené Brown
52. “I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again until I finally figure out who I’m meant to be.” – Jennifer Elisabeth
53. “She wore her battle scars like wings, looking at her you would never know that once upon a time she forgot how to fly.” – Nikki Rowe
54. “Healing does not mean going back to the way things were before, but rather allowing what is now to move us closer to God.” – Ram Dass
55. “Instead of saying, “I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues, say “I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.” – Horacio Jones
56. “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
57. “Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body, we remember who we really are.” – Jack Kornfield
58. “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
59. “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
60. “Every problem you face is an opportunity to learn something. The biggest lessons in your life have been learned from the darkest days.” – Tracy Malone
61. “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
62. “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
63. “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
64. “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
65. “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
66. “I’ve experienced several different healing methodologies over the years – counseling, self-help seminars, and I’ve read a lot – but none of them will work unless you really want to heal.” – Lindsay Wagner
67. “It has been said that time heals all wounds. The truth is that time does not heal anything. It merely passes. It is what we do during the passing of time that helps or hinders the healing process.” – Jay Marshall
68. “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
69. “Laughter is important, not only because it makes us happy, but 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
70. “I have come to understand that some of the deepest and most effective healing is not found at a doctor’s office or a hospital, but rather from inside ourselves. Our bodies are designed for self-healing, and we are capable of both boosting and blocking that ability.” – Dr. Daju Suzanne Friedman