Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. — Leigh Hunt
The power of music to integrate and cure. . . is quite fundamental. It is the profoundest nonchemical medication. — Oliver Sacks
Sound is the force of creation, the true whole. Music then, becomes the voice of the great cosmic oneness and therefore the optimal way to reach this final state of healing. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Music is the balm that heals the forlorn ache of a distant star. — Don Williams
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music. — Billy Joel
If music wakes you up, makes you think, heals you...then, I guess the music is working. — A. R. Rahman
Music can lift us out of depression or move us to tears - it is a remedy, a tonic, orange juice for the ear. — Oliver Sacks
Music is nourishment, and a comforting elixir. Music multiplies the beauty of life and all its values. — Zoltan Kodaly
Man's music is seen as a means of restoring the soul, as well as confused and discordant bodily afflictions, to the harmonic proportions that it shares with the world soul of the cosmos. — Plato
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu
Music in the soul can be heard by the universe. — Lao Tzu
Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again. — Cat Stevens
Forgetfulness heals everything and song is the most beautiful manner of forgetting, for in song man feels only what he loves. — Ivo Andric
Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul — Plato
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. — Haruki Murakami
Music can change the world. — Ludwig van Beethoven
Music Healing Image Quotes
Before you heal someone, ask him if he's willing to give up the things that made him sick.
Healing Through Music Quotes
I believe that through music we can help heal the world. — Michael Jackson
There is a view that jazz is 'evil' because it comes from evil people, but actually the greatest priests on 52nd Street and on the streets of New York City were the musicians. They were doing the greatest healing work. They knew how to punch through music that would cure and make people feel good. — Garth Hudson
When you make music you do it for the right reason: love. Love is the desire of well being, desire to heal the wounded, the person in pain, the person who has problems - to touch the person who needs love. The love inside you manifests through sound, vibration and embraces everyone in the room. — Pepe Romero
Life is like a piano, the white keys represent happiness and the black shows sadness, but as you go through life's journey, remember that the black keys also makes music.
Music is a really powerful way for me to catalyze all kinds of things. It's always been the cure. Through music, I've healed all the wounds I've had and celebrated all the good things in life. Through music, I turn things, good or bad, into energy. — Juanes
I think about Marvin Gaye and 'Sexual Healing.' What a radical idea that sex was healing. I learned my politics through that music. — Eve Ensler
I healed people, emotionally and physically, through my music. I get a lot of e-mails from people who are suffering through a lot of problems. They tell me they put on a Neil Sedaka record, and it's like medicine. It picks them up, and gets them out of their unfortunate situations. — Neil Sedaka
Behind every girl's favorite song there is an untold story.
Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed. — W.A. Mathieu
You see more and more why healing is happening through music.
It's because music causes a reorganization of the tonal structure, and Man in essence is a vibration — Kenneth G. Mills
Through its influence upon the unconscious, music can have a specific healing effect. It can help in eliminating repressions and resistances, and it can bring into the field of waking consciousness many drives, emotions and complexes which were creating difficulties in the unconscious. — Roberto Assagioli
Music Therapy Quotes
Writing songs is cheaper than going to therapy. — Brent Smith
I'm a little nuts. I'm a lot nuts. All I know is that in the midst of the madness of this world it's my therapy. The music touches my heartstrings. — Gordon Lightfoot
I would like to stop worrying so much, because I worry all the time. And to learn how to be happier, just in general. I have to learn to take things not so seriously. And to stop biting my nails!... Recording music has helped take my mind off certain things. For me, my music is therapy. — Britney Spears
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion.
Music therapy, to me, is music performance without the ego. It's not about entertainment as much as its about empathizing. If you can use music to slip past the pain and gather insight into the workings of someone else's mind, you can begin to fix a problem. — Jodi Picoult
When I grew up in Ireland in the seventies there was no such thing as therapy...I mean we didn't even have cappuccinos until 1998! So for me music was therapy, it was also the place where one could speak about himself, where he was allowed to speak about his traumatic experiences. — Sinead O'Connor
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged. — Oliver Sacks
Healing comes from gathering wisdom from past actions and letting go of the pain that the education cost you.
Art, for example, becomes "art therapy." When patients make music, it becomes "music therapy." When the arts are used for "therapy" in this way, they are degraded to a secondary position. — James Hillman
Laying on the floor and listening to music might be all the therapy that you need. — Danielle LaPorte
I was born into a very religious family with no TVs and a very strict Episcopal Christian religion. Music was my outlet and more of my therapy than anything, but yeah, it was the one thing in life that I've had, art and music. — DJ Ashba
People are always asking me to do Shakespeare - at home, at colleges, on film locations, in restaurants. It's like playing a piece of music, getting all the notes. It's great therapy. — Al Pacino
Love And Healing Quotes
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love. — Hubert Humphrey
And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Church is not an organization you join; it is a family where you belong, a home where you are loved and a hospital where you find healing. — Nicky Gumbel
The earth has music for those who listen.
Nothing heals us like letting people know our scariest parts: When people listen to you cry and lament, and look at you with love, it's like they are holding the baby of you. — Anne Lamott
Allow the light and the healing presence of Christ to shine brightly through your lives. In that way, all those who come in contact with you will discover the loving kindness of God. — Pope John Paul II
We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles. — Gregg Braden
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
I know for certain that we never lose the people we love, even to death. They continue to participate in every act, thought and decision we make. Their love leaves an indelible imprint in our memories. We find comfort in knowing that our lives have been enriched by having shared their love. — Leo Buscaglia
Love the truth. Let others have their truth, and the truth will prevail. — Jan Hus
In a world so torn apart by rivalry, anger, and hatred, we have the privileged vocation to be living signs of a love that can bridge all divisions and heal all wounds. — Henri Nouwen
Love Heals Quotes
There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox
If the world is to be healed through human efforts, I am convinced it will be by ordinary people, people whose love for this life is even greater than their fear. People who can open to the web of life that called us into being — Joanna Macy
The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it. — Robert H. Schuller
Art is how we decorate space; Music is how we decorate time.
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. — Kenji Miyazawa
God is loving you into better relationships. He is loving you into being a more loving person. The more we grow in love, the less offended we become. The less offended we become, the more easily and quickly we get healed when people do wound us. — Graham Cooke
Walking. I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands. — Linda Hogan
It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. Bet it is never gone.
Healing does not come through intense affirmation of divinity, or by simply pouring out love and the expression of a vague mysticism.It comes through mastering an exact science of contact, impression, of invocation plus an understanding of the subtle apparatus of the etheric vehicle. — Alice Bailey
Eventually, you will come to understand that love heals everything, and love is all there is. — Gary Zukav
Grief is not a disorder, a disease or sign of weakness. It is an emotional, physical and spiritual necessity, the price you pay for love. The only cure for grief is to grieve. — Earl A Grollman
I send out thoughts of love and peace and healing to the whole universe: to all trees and plants and growing things, to all beasts and birds and fishes, and to every man, woman and child on earth, without any distinction. — Emmet Fox
Power Of Music Quotes
You need music, I don't know why. It's probably one of those Joe Campbell questions, why we need ritual. We need magic, and bliss, and power, myth, and celebration and religion in our lives, and music is a good way to encapsulate a lot of it. — Jerry Garcia
The conductor of an orchestra doesn’t make a sound. He depends, for his power, on his ability to make other people powerful. — Benjamin Zander
Gratitude is the best medicine. It heals your mind, you body and your spirit. And attracts more things to be grateful for.
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom. — Ian Lowe
Music expresses that which cannot be put into words. — Victor Hugo
I saw the dance as a vision of ineffable power. A man could, with dignity and a towering majesty, dance. Not mince, cavort, do "fancy dancing" or "showoff" steps. No: Dance as Michelangelo's visions dance and as the music of Bach dances. — Jose Limon
When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.
I think that there is a lot of power in a gay guy having a really (hopefully) successful music career while just being completely openly gay and honest and happy. — Troye Sivan
Color which, like music, is a matter of vibrations, reaches what is most general and therefore most indefinable in nature: its inner power. — Paul Gauguin
The power of nature is what all art strives to be. The more we can get in tune with the harmony of the planet, the more our art can benefit from that relationship. — Rick Rubin
Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry
Natural Healing Quotes
Our food should be our medicine and our medicine should be our food. — Hippocrates
The voice of the sea speaks to the soul. — Kate Chopin
Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. — Hippocrates
Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts. There is something infinitely healing in the repeated refrains of nature -- the assurance that dawn comes after night, and spring after winter. — Rachel Carson
Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords. — Erik Erikson
The art of healing comes from nature, not from the physician. Therefore the physician must start from nature, with an open mind. — Paracelsus
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Everyone has a doctor in him or her; we just have to help it in its work. The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well. Our food should be our medicine. Our medicine should be our food. But to eat when you are sick, is to feed your sickness. — Hippocrates
Energy Healing Quotes
The soul is healed by being with children. --Fyodor Dostoyevsky — William P. Young
Our sorrows and wounds are healed only when we touch them with compassion. — Buddha
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every culture and in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
I get a lymphatic massage every two weeks, and afterward, I have more energy and brighter skin. — Hannah Bronfman
Love releases incredible energy that promotes the biochemistry of healing. — Bernie Siegel
Our sadness is an energy we discharge in order to heal. …Sadness is painful. We try to avoid it. Actually discharging sadness releases the energy involved in our emotional pain. To hold it in is to freeze the pain within us. The therapeutic slogan is that grieving is the ‘healing feeling.’ — John Bradshaw
Kind thoughts increase the flow of vital energy into your body and mind. Do kind acts now. Do not procrastinate. Kindness is like a healing balm. It soothes suffering... Little drops of water make the mighty ocean. Even so, little acts of kindness make an ocean of goodwill. — Sivananda
Certain people give off positive energy, others negative. It's the quality of someone's being, a measure of the love with which they've led their lives. It also reflects the inner work they've done, their efforts to heal anger, hatred, or self-loathing, which poison us like toxic fumes. — Judith Orloff
We either misdirect or depress great amounts of energy in order to keep ourselves from feeling pain, including what we feel in the moment and being who we are in the moment. — Barbara Brennan
Personal Healing Quotes
I think the hardest thing in life is to forgive. Hate is self destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate, you're hurting yourself. It's a healing, actually, it's a real healing...forgiveness. — Louis Zamperini
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
Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds. — Thomas Keating
All it takes is one person in any generation to heal a family's limiting beliefs. — Gregg Braden
We are not here to fix, change or belittle another person. We are here to support, forgive and heal one another. — Marianne Williamson
There is no such thing as a simple act of compassion
or an inconsequential act of service.
Everything we do for another person has infinite consequences. — Caroline Myss
You can forgive someone almost anything. But you cannot tolerate everything...We don't have to tolerate what people do just because we forgive them for doing it. Forgiving heals us personally. To tolerate everything only hurts us all in the long run. — Lewis B. Smedes
Remember your personal demons should be afraid of you, because you are their home, their food, and as you heal, their executioner. — Laurell K. Hamilton
If you heal the leg of a person, do not be surprised if they use it to run away. — African Proverbs
My feeling is that poetry is also a healing process, and then when a person tries to write poetry with depth or beauty, he will find himself guided along paths which will heal him, and this is more important, actually, than any of the poetry he writes. — Robert Bly
Spiritual Healing Quotes
God's Word never fails. He will always heal you if you dare to believe Him. Men are searching everywhere today for things with which they can heal themselves, and they ignore the fact that the Balm of Gilead (Jeremiah 8:22) is within easy reach. — Smith Wigglesworth
In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe. — Michael Jackson
Faith is not something you have to get. It's something that you, as a bornagain child of God, already have. Act on it by releasing it to God. That's when your healing starts! — Oral Roberts
Know that all healing forces are within, not without! The applications from without are merely to create within a coordinating mental and spiritual force. — Edgar Cayce
The Church is not a museum to display perfect people, but a hospital for the hurting. — John Osteen
Confession heals, confession justifies, confession grants pardon of sin, all hope consists in confession; in confession there is a chance for mercy. — Isidore of Seville
Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes! — Martin Luther
You've got to admit you're broken before you can be made whole. — LeCrae
Every human being is the author of his own health or disease. — Buddha
God has spoken to me many times that my job is to love and his job is to heal. — Heidi Baker
Music is a science, it heals depression, it awakens, most people don't know, they just take music for an entertainment, something to dance to, and enjoy yourself and you go to bed and forget it tomorrow, music must never be forgotten, it's like a fountain that keeps on flowing — Peter Tosh
The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal.
Life and love go on, let the music play. — Johnny Cash
Music is always a healer. Music has never let me down. I know it’s my religion. There’s the idea that you can’t truly know happiness until you know sadness, so how can you heal yourself unless you’ve hurt yourself? I’m still figuring out who I am, but I know that I’m not who I was. — Brendon Urie
Ask her what she craved, and she'd get a little frantic about things like books, the woods, music. Plants and the seasons. Also freedom. — Charles Frazier
If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward. — Sting
Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. — Confucius
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life. — Caryll Houselander
When you hear the music ringin' in your soul
And you feel it in your heart and it grows and grows
And it comes from the backstreet rock & roll and the healing has begun... — Van Morrison
The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing ... Only when our feet learn once again how to walk in a sacred manner, and our hearts hear the real music of creation, can we bring the world back into balance. — Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee
Laughter is a holy thing. It is as sacred as music and silence
and solemnity, maybe more sacred. Laughter is like a prayer, like
a bridge over which creatures tiptoe to meet each other. Laughter
is like mercy; it heals. When you can laugh at yourself, you are
free. — Ted Loder
People are beginning to recognize reggae music, and know it's a very powerful music, and researchers have been researching and coming up with reports that it's a great music, a healing music — Peter Tosh
I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. — Billy Joel
I think music can heal your soul if you'll let it. It can also bring you up if you're down. It can also bring you down if you're too up. It's a mood thing. — Gretchen Wilson
Nobody cares if you can't dance well. — Martha Graham
Pythagoras based musical education in the first place on certain melodies and rhythm that exercised a healing, a purifying influence on the human actions and passions, restoring 'Pristine Harmony' of the souls' faculties. He applied the same means to the curing of diseases of both body and mind. — Porphyry
Any day above ground is a good one. A woman's beauty is her inherent ability to better a man in every way. My father, now in heaven, is the watcher of birds. And his eye is on his sparrow. God, in his great silence, is still there. Of that I haven't a single doubt. Music is the balm that heals the ache of a forlorn star. — Donald E. Williams, Jr.
Music is a more potent instrument than any other for education. — Plato
Music is the elixir of life. It can mimic the heartbeats of our bodies and heal like a magic wand... The resonance it creates in our bodies cannot be replicated by any medicine. — Walter Mikac
The magic of "Musical Medicine" will come into its own. The application of such healing potencies will not be limited just to man's body and mind. It will be an agency for building and healing his soul as well. — Corinne Heline
See deep enough, and you see musically. — Thomas Carlyle
Sweet music, and your secret heart. Both have the healing grace. — Jon Anderson
I believe that music in itself heals and that everything is about the power of the mind. I thought if you are happy, you don't get ill. Your health is in your head. When you are satisfied with your work, you don't get ill. — Andre Rieu
A man in Mali told me that there are seven senses. Everyone has five, some can use their sixth. But not everyone has the seventh. It is the power to heal with music, calm with color, to soothe the sick soul with harmony. He told me that I have this gift, and I know what I have to do with it. — Marie Daulne
Music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. — Ricky Skaggs
Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
My purpose is to create music not for snobs, but for all people, music which is beautiful and healing. To attempt what old Chinese painters called 'spirit resonance' in melody and sound. — Alan Hovhaness
Music should be healing. Music should uplift the soul. Music should inspire. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
Music should be healing, music should uplift the soul, music should inspire; then there is no better way of getting closer to God, of rising higher towards the spirit, of attaining spiritual perfection, only if it is rightly understood. — Hazrat Inayat Khan
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways. — N. T. Wright
It's part of the calling to at least do a few songs in the show that give people some hope. There's so much hurt in this world and... music is such a great healing balm and a great way to forget your troubles. — Ricky Skaggs
Up until I started working with him, I had thought that music was a nice thing that I enjoyed and liked making, but it wasn’t a serious healing modality. What Dr. Sacks has proven is that music is actually a quantifiable, profound healing modality. — Moby
Artists, whether they're classical musicians or pop musicians, they have always been the reflection of society, and in many ways a healing part of whatever is wrong in society, and I think it's important for us to continue to do that, and I don't see enough of it today. — George Duke
I still believe that music is healing to some extent. — Jake Shimabukuro
Silence is our deepest nature, our home, our common ground, our peace. Silence reveals. Silence heals. — Gunilla Brodde Norris
Now God be thanked that the name of a hill is such music, that the name of a river can heal. — Alan Paton
The Medicine Man occupied the honored role of priest and physician to his tribe. They understood that healing was done by the intercession of celestial spirits. Music was used as the bridge between these planes. Thus we see why music was religious in nature, and music was looked upon as a sacred art. — Corinne Heline
I am more comfortable doing comedy, and I want to perform comedy. When you can really make someone laugh, that's a healing experience. It's like music. A lot of music is really healing. — Judy Tenuta
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