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Quotes about Healing

Nevertheless, if someone has an empty brain—and because of this is vexed by insanity, and is delirious—take the whole grains of wheat and cook them in water. Remove these cooked grains from the water, and place them around his whole head, tying a cloth over them. His brain will be reinvigorated by their vital fluid, and he may recover his health and strength. Do this until he returns to his right mind.
— Hildegard of Bingen
God is mans best medicine!!!....The best medicine for man is god!!!......
— Hippocrates
Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.
— Hippocrates
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
— Hippocrates
The natural healing force within each of us is the greatest force in getting well.
— Hippocrates
Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a mater of opportunity.
— Hippocrates
Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.
— Hippocrates
What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.
— Hippocrates
Emotional pain is such a strange feeling. You can forget you're in it—or try to, anyway—and then it sneaks up and finds its way to the surface.
— Jennifer Lopez
God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.
— Vance Havner
A person who hasn't grieved a significant loss has unfinished business inside and can cause others great grief as a result.
— Henry Cloud
I cry intermittently, like a summer rain. I don't feel racked by the crying; in fact, it hydrates me. Then rage wells up in me, and I want to take a crowbar to all the cars in the neighborhood.
— Anne Lamott