Healing Quotes - Page 22

• Once she'd been a victim- helpless, used, and broken. Now, she was a warrior.

  Nora Roberts

  Warrior, Broken, Victim

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J.D. Robb THE IN DEATH COLLECTION”, p.882, Penguin

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• Whatever you remember, or feel, you need to know that whatever they were they did one worthwhile thing in their miserable lives. And that was you. Whatever they were, they couldn't destroy that. They couldn't stop you from becoming.

  Nora Roberts

  Worthwhile Things, Becoming, Needs

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• Sometimes life isn't about who you were or are, but it's about who you are becoming.

  Barbara Sher

  Becoming, Sometimes, Who You Are

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• I stand in awe of my body.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Body, Awe

  Henry David Thoreau (1873). “The Maine Woods”, p.71

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• Freeing the body inevitably leads to freeing the heart.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Heart, Body

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• Every moment presents a new opportunity and a new decision.

  Shakti Gawain

  Opportunity, Decision, Moments

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, New World Library

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• What is life for? Life is for you.

  Abraham Maslow

  Life Is, What Is Life

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• As a rule, it was the pleasure-haters who became unjust.

  W. H. Auden

  Unjust, Pleasure

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• No matter how sophisticated our lives may be we need to think of ourselves as creative children.

  Julia Cameron

  Children, Thinking, Creative

  Julia Cameron (2013). “The Vein of Gold: A Journey to Your Creative Heart”, p.207, Souvenir Press

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• The heart of the person before you is a mirror. See there your own form.

  Socrates

  Heart, Mirrors, Form

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• What the myths say, is that you have to be the hero of your own life. You're the one who has to take charge of who you are, you're the one who has to take control. And also, you're the one who can bring something to the community.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hero, Community, Myth

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• Nobody cares if you can't dance well.

  Martha Graham

  Dance, Ballet Class, Dancing

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• After self-nurturance, listening to the whispers of our hearts is probably the hardest task we've ever attempted.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Heart, Self, Listening

  Sarah Ban Breathnach (2008). “Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• I must stay under the old tree in the midst of the long grass, the luxury of the leaves, and the song in the very air. It seems as if I could feel all the glowing life the sunshine gives and the south winds calls into being.

  Richard Jefferies

  Song, Sunshine, Luxury

  Richard Jefferies (1884). “The Life of the Fields”

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• Enchanted worlds still exist because the child within us never dies. The doorways may be more obscure, but we can still seek them out. There are still noble adventures to undertake. There are still trees that speak and caverns that lead to nether realms. There will always be faeries and elves within nature because they will always be dancing in our hearts.

  Ted Andrews

  Children, Heart, Adventure

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• Do things to make your day precious.

  Bernie Siegel

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• We are ourselves our happiness.

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1850). “Poetical works”, p.168

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• I certainly have a lot to lament, as do we all, everybody has their griefs. But the griefs we can fix, shouldn't we go around fixing them?

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Grief, Fixing, Lament

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• Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet.

  Kabir

  Strong, Feet, Body

  Kabir (1977). “The Kabir book: forty-four of the ecstatic poems of Kabir”

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• If you don't have a test, you won't be able to have a testimony.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Tests, Able, Testimony

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• He who has a mind to fight, let him fight, for now is the time.

  Anacreon

  Fighting, Mind, Time Heals

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• Repetition creates the master.

  Cesar Millan

  Masters, Repetition

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• One of the most radical things that you can do is really listen to someone.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Radical, Can Do

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• Transformation happens in small groups. Each person can speak and all listen.

  Gloria Steinem

  Groups, Transformation, Speak

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• In order to make a choice, you need the power to see there is one.

  Gloria Steinem

  Order, Choices, Needs

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