100+ Inspiring Quotes for Self-Healing and Renewal

Self-healing quotes remind us of the inherent power we have in taking care of our bodies, minds as well as our spirits. Wherever you are or how bleak you consider the situation is there is no limit to the realm of healing and regaining the fullness that is always there.

Life may present us with difficult challenges. For those who suffer from the disease and their caregivers their families, the road can be more challenging. It’s through these circumstances that we can discover our strength and eventually be able to tap into the healing power of our own self.

In this article we’d like to share some inspiring healing quotes that will lift your spirits and allow you to discover your inner power. So, make yourself your tea, settle in and be inspired by these inspirational quotes!

Famous Quotes

“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates

“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

“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”

“Awareness is the first step in healing. – Dean Ornish”

“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”

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

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

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

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

“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou

“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before – more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.” – Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

“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

“Every struggle in your life has shaped you into the person you are today. Be thankful for the hard times, they can only make you stronger.” – Keanu Reeves

“Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome.” – Dr. Phil

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

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

“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” – Michael Cunningham

“Forgetting was not the same as healing.” – Rivers Solomon

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

“I show my scars so that others know they can heal.” – Rhachelle Nicol’

“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

“I think that little by little I’ll be able to solve my problems and survive.” – Frida Kahlo

“Silence is a place of great power and great healing.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

“We don’t heal in isolation, but in community.” – S. Kelley Harrell

“The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost

“No one heals himself by wounding another.” – S. Ambrose

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

“Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice, it takes love.” – Maza Dohta

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

“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

“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

“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

“Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

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

“To me, forgiveness is the cornerstone of healing.” – Sylvia Fraser

“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

‘Tis the most tender part of love, each other to forgive. – John Sheffield

To understand is to forgive, even oneself.- Alexander Chase

Quotes to Soothe The Soul

“Words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.” – Sarah Fielding

“Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” – Proverbs 16:23-25

“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

If it’s out of your hands, it deserves freedom from your mind too. – Ivan Nuru

You’re afraid of surrender because you don’t want to lose control. But you never had control; all you had was anxiety. – Elizabeth Gilbert

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

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

“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

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” – Andrew Matthews

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of.” – Rachel Naomi Remen

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

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worth the trip.” Glenn Beck

“Don’t waste a second of your life convincing other people that you’re worth loving.” Atticus

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

“Don’t worry if people think you are crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” – Jennifer Elisabeth

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.” – Rumi

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” – Brene Brown

“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” – Maya Angelou

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” – Rupi Kaur

“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in one drop.” – Rumi

“But that’s the way my love is going to be. A little bit messy, completely confused. But it’s real.” – Lauren Layne

“He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.” – Emily Bronte

“A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the tear [that results] from the injury of the oyster. The treasure of our being in this world is also produced by an injured life. If we had not been wounded, if we had not been injured, then we will not produce the pearl.” – Stephan Hoeller

“One by one, I drowned all the people I’d been.” – Conor Oberst

“The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

“I give up freely what is no longer serving me. I release it to create space for what inspires me.” – Unknown

On Healing Grief

“There is beauty in the journey, regardless of the outcome. Let’s grieve and hope, and fight together.” – Marie White

“Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable.” Nick Cave

“Give sorrow words. The grief that does not speak whispers the o’re-fraught heart, and bids it break…” – William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“What we once enjoyed and deeply loved we can never lose, for all that we love deeply becomes part of us.” – Helen Keller

“Whatever comes, we let it be as it is. When we do this, we come to see, in this moment or the next, our emotions always moving. The word emotion has its roots in the Latin movere and emovere meaning “to move through” and “to move out”. Our emotions move in us, move through us and move between us. And when we allow them to move freely, they change, perhaps scarcely and perhaps gradually – but inevitably.” – Joanne Cacciatore, Bearing the Unbearable: Love, Loss, and the Heartbreaking Path of Grief

“Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life’s search for love and wisdom.” – Rumi

“We’re expected to go back to work immediately, keep moving, to get on with our lives. But it doesn’t work that way. We need time to move through the pain of loss. We need to step into it, really to get to know it, in order to learn” – Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss

“Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive.” – Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.” – Charlotte Erikkson

“The best revenge is no revenge. Heal yourself and move on. Don’t become like those who have hurt you.” – Unknown

“Healing is the end of conflict of yourself.” – Stephanie Gailing

“When I look back on my life, I see pain, mistakes and heartache. When I look in the mirror, I see strength, learned lessons and pride in myself.” – Unknown

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

“You cannot win your future if you cannot forgive your past.” – Ikechukwu Joseph

“Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

“The forgiving state of mind is a magnetic power for attracting good.” – Catherine Ponder

“So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was – and am – innocent.” – Ellen Bass & Laura Davis, The Courage to Heal

“I had no idea that mothering my own child would be so healing to my own sadness from my childhood.” – Susie Bright

“Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Silmarillion

“The reason why you need emotional support is because it’s important for survivors to be heard. To be understood. To be able to express yourself without fearing criticism or harsh judgment. To be validated for your pain, suffering, and loss. For others to be there for you to encourage you, especially if you’re having a bad day or feeling triggered.” – Dana Arcuri, Soul Cry: Releasing & Healing the Wounds of Trauma

“I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening – a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation. I have little doubt that as individuals, families, communities, and even nations, we have the capacity to learn how to heal and prevent much of the damage done by trauma. In so doing, we will significantly increase our ability to achieve both our individual and collective dreams.” – Peter A. Levine, Healing Trauma: A Pioneering Program for Restoring the Wisdom of Your Body

“The song is ended but the melody lingers on.” – Irving Berlin

“When someone you love becomes a memory, that memory becomes a treasure.” – Anonymous

“Grief can be a burden, but also an anchor. You get used to the weight, how it holds you in place.” – Sarah Dessen, The Truth About Forever

“Life is full of grief, to exactly the degree we allow ourselves to love other people.” – Orson Scott Card, Shadow of the Giant

“Only time and tears take away grief; that is what they are for.” – Terry Pratchett, I Shall Wear Midnight

“So it’s true, when all is said and done, grief is the price we pay for love.” – E.A. Bucchianeri, Brushstrokes of a Gadfly

“I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

Quotes About Healing Your Body & Mind

“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

“Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” – Rumi

“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

“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.

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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.” – Buddha

“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

“Every time your heart is broken, a doorway cracks open to a world full of new beginnings, new opportunities.” – Patti Roberts

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

Conclusion

These 100 self-healing quotes will help you accept the healing process, find inner peace, and ascend to new levels of wellbeing. While you go through your discomfort and allow yourself to heal, keep in mind that real healing is within. These quotes should be the lighthouse of your life that will guide you towards an existence of balance harmony, harmony and self-love. Which quote resonated with your the most? And how do you apply the wisdom in your own life?