Self-Healing Quotes: 55 Transformative Sayings for Your Healing Journey

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In this article, we have collected 50 self-healing quotes that will inspire you to connect to the natural healing force within and open up your healing potential.

55 Self-Healing Quotes

#1

“The body is a self-healing organism, so it’s really about clearing things out of the way so the body can heal itself.” ~ Barbara Brennan

#2

“The central purpose of the Work that Reconnects is to help people uncover and experience their innate connections with each other and with the systemic, self-healing powers of the web of life, so that they may be enlivened and motivated to play their part in creating a sustainable civilization.” ~ Joanna Macy

#3

Self-forgiveness is essential to self-healing.” ~ Ruth Carter Stapleton

#4

“Gratitude for the gift of life is the primary wellspring of all religions, the hallmark of the mystic, the source of all true art….It is a privilege to be alive in this time when we can choose to take part in the self-healing of our world.” ~ Joanna Macy

#5

“The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.” ~ Hippocrates

#6

“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

#7

“Don’t blame, forgive. All healing is self-healing.” ~ Albert Schweitzer

#8

“A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.” ~ Lindsay Wagner

#9

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

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”The process of self-healing is the privilege of every being. Self-healing is not a miracle, nor is self-healing a dramatization of the personality as though you could do something superior. Self-healing is a genuine process of the relationship between the physical and the infinite power of the soul.” ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi

#11

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

#12

“All minds are joined. Therefore, all healing is self-healing. Our inner peace will, of itself, pass to others once we accept it for ourselves.” ~ Gerald Jampolsky

#13

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

#14

“The human mind is a fearful instrument of adaptation, and in nothing is this more clearly shown than in its mysterious powers of resilience, self-protection, and self-healing. Unless an event completely shatters the order of one’s life, the mind, if it has youth and health and time enough, accepts the inevitable and gets itself ready for the next happening like a grimly dutiful American tourist who, on arriving at a new town, looks around him, takes his bearings, and says, “Well, where do I go from here?” ~ Thomas Wolfe

#15

“I really believe that breath, in and of itself can become the ultimate self-healing tool.” ~ Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

#16

“Some people go to the gym to get more attractive physically, I’ve chosen to study the past and patterns I was trapped into. It is more about dropping than lifting weight.” ~ Alain Bremond-Torrent

#17

“Healing yourself is connected with healing others.” ~ Yoko Ono

#18

“The treatments themselves do not ‘cure’ the condition, they simply restore the body’s self-healing ability.” ~ Leon Chaitow

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”A wound does not destroy us. It activates our self-healing powers. The point is not to “put it behind you” but to keep benefiting from the strength it has awakened.” ~ David Richo

#20

“True forgiveness is a self-healing process which starts with you and gradually extends to everyone else.” ~ Robert Holden

#21

“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

#22

“Forgiveness is nothing more and nothing less than an act of self-healing-an act of self-empowerment.” ~ Joyce Meyer

#23

“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

#24

“Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.” ~ Erik Erikson

#25

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

#26

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

#27

“Healing the world begins with healing yourself.” ~ Anthon St. Maarten

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”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

#29

“The body creates health daily. It is inherently self-healing.” ~ Christiane Northrup

#30

“Yoga nidra is the yoga of aware sleep. In this lies the secret of self healing. Yoga Nidra is a pratyahara technique in which the distractions of the mind are contained and the mind is relaxed.” ~ Satyananda Saraswati

#31

“Few people can fail to generate a self-healing process, when they become genuinely involved in healing others.” ~ Theodore Isaac Rubin

#32

“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

#33

“The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.” ~ Vernon Howard

#34

“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

#35

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

#36

“But 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

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“Healing is never complete until we have been truly heard. May the universe send you someone who will sincerely care to listen.” ~ Anthon St. Maarten

#38

“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

#39

“Feelings are much like waves, we can’t stop them from coming but we can choose which ones to surf.” ~ Jonatan Martensson

#40

“We are all damaged. We have all been hurt. We have all had to learn painful lessons. We are all recovering from some mistake, loss, betrayal, abuse, injustice, or misfortune. All of life is a process of recovery that never ends. We each must find ways to accept and move through the pain and to pick ourselves back up. For each pang of grief, depression, doubt, or despair there is an inverse toward renewal coming to you in time. Each tragedy is an announcement that some goodwill indeed come in time. Be patient with yourself.” ~ Bryant McGill

#41

“To recognize one’s own insanity is, of course, the arising of sanity, the beginning of healing and transcendence.” ~ Eckhart Tolle

#42

“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

#43

“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

#44

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

#45

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

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“The sun shall always rise upon a new day and there shall always be a rose garden within me. Yes, there is a part of me that is broken, but my broken soil gives way to my wild roses.” ~ C. JoyBell C.

#47

“Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.” ~ Akshay Dubey

#48

“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 Hay

#49

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

#50

“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

#51

“What happens when people open their hearts?” “They get better.” ~ Haruki Murakami

#52

“The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.” ~ Mooji

#53

“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

#54

“Emotional pain cannot kill you, but running from it can. Allow. Embrace. Let yourself feel. Let yourself heal.” ~ Vironika Tugaleva

#55

“Until you heal the wounds of your past, you are going to bleed. You can bandage the bleeding with food, with alcohol, with drugs, with work, with cigarettes, with sex; but eventually, it will all ooze through and stain your life. 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

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