67 Healing Quotes to Help Recover from Grief and Trauma

Grief, trauma and hurt of all kids (both mental and physical) takes reflection, strength, and most importantly, time, to heal from. If you’re struggling, read through these healing quotes to help recognize and validate your feelings, heal your pain and find strength in your time of need.

If you’re struggling with something specific, see these quotes on grief, change, broken trust, cheating and anxiety.

Healing Quotes

“Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles.” – Ricky Skaggs

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

“Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.” – Elton John

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“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

“An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like.” – Tarana Burke

“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

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“Even when something is not your fault, toxic blame has no place in your life. Focus on your own empowerment and healing.” – Bryant McGill

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

“There are so many ways to heal. Arrogance may have a place in technology, but not in healing. I need to get out of my own way if I am to heal.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

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

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

“Knowing your own mind is the solution to all our problems.” – Lama Yeshe

“I have been a seeker and I still am, but I stopped asking the books and the stars. I started listening to the teaching of my Soul.” – Rumi

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

“Even the smallest shift in perspective can bring about the greatest healing.” – Joshua Kai

“First thing about being a patient – you have to learn patience.” – Oliver Sacks

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

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

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

“Given enough time and distance, the heart will always heal.” – Laura Fitzgerald

“To heal our wounds, we need courage to face them.” – Paulo Coelho

“Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.” – Stephen Levine

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

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

“When wounds are healed by love, The scars are beautiful.” – David Bowles

“Nothing is so healing as the human touch.” – Bobby Fischer

“Everybody has losses—it’s unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.” – Isabel Allende

“A clear mind heals everything that needs to be healed.” – Byron Katie

“No matter how long it takes to heal…we share the same scars…” – Daniel Yanez

“Healing is simply attempting to do more of those things that bring joy and fewer of those things that bring pain.” – O. Carl Simonton

“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.” – Norman Cousins

“Wounds are like water set to boil – they heal best left unwatched.” – Gabrielle Zevin

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

“You can’t have healing without sickness.” – T.D Jakes

“Do not delay healing just to wait on an apology that may never come.” – Christine E. Szymanski

“To spread love, healing, peace, and joy is my mission in life – and so I speak up.” – India Arie

“It’s harder to heal than it is to kill.” – Tamora Pierce

“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

“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

“There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in.” – Leonard Cohen

“Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.” – Kathy Magliato

“Humor is healing.” – Brad Garrett

“Before you heal someone, ask him if he’s willing to give up the things that made him sick.” – Hippocrates

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

“We heal our past by living our present love relationship.” – Donna Goddard

“Sickness leading to healing. The truth and it’s opposite again.” – Gayle Forman

“It doesn’t hurt me unless I interpret it’s happening as harmful to me. I can choose not to.” – Marcus Aurelius

“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

“Herb is the healing of a nation, alcohol is the destruction.” – Bob Marley

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

“Life is so messy. It’s heartache and headaches and bedhead and tears. Then life is glorious. And then it’s messy all over again.” – Candy Leigh

“Healing is the discovery of the Divinity within.” – Ernest Holmes

“If we are to nurture and heal, we must admit that the wounds exist.” – Iyanla Vanzant

“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” – Hubert H.Humphrey

“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

“Temporary, but excruciating, pain is the price of healing.” – Vironika Tugaleva

“You will be a different person after the storm, because the storm will heal you from your perfection.” – Bryant McGill

“I think I’ve solved more problems on long walks than in front of a computer.” – Sahil Lavingia

“Time didn’t heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.” – P.D. James

“The more you are able to forgive then the more you are able to love.” – Stephen Richards

“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