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Quotes about healing, recovery and becoming whole again. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest healing quotes ever written — from Rumi, Japanese Proverb, Oprah Winfrey and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

These pains you feel are messengers. Listen to them.

— Rumi

We must understand that sadness is an ocean, and sometimes we drown, while other days we are forced to swim.

Tears are the summer showers to the soul.

Even the fiercest storm cannot blow all day.

— Japanese Proverb

The body heals with play, the mind heals with laughter, and the spirit heals with joy.

The heart was made to be broken, but also to be healed by time and love.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

— Oprah Winfrey

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls.

— Khalil Gibran

These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb.

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Rest is not idleness — it is the stillness in which the body rebuilds itself. Get well soon.

Prayer is the place of refuge and protection from the sorrows of life.

When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

— Haruki Murakami

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

— Maya Angelou

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.

Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.

— Rumi

Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.

— Rumi

The sorrow which has no vent in tears may make other organs weep.

— Khalil Gibran

Sending you healing thoughts and a warm hug. Get well soon.

Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth.

— Charles Dickens

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot heal.

Dance, when you're broken open. Dance, if you've torn the bandage off.

— Rumi

The wound is the place where the Light enters you.

— Rumi

A broken heart heals in time — and time is a kind healer.

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation.

The cure for a broken heart is simple, my lady. A hot bath and a good night's sleep.

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals it.

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