Healing Words Quotes

When there's no place for the scalpel, words are the surgeon's only tool.

Words are singularly the most powerful force available to humanity. We can choose to use this force constructively with words of encouragement, or destructively using words of despair. Words have energy and power with the ability to help, to heal, to hinder, to hurt, to harm, to humiliate and to humble.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Words can wound or heal. The purpose of speech must always be to create joy in the listener.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything.

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

Every thought of pity is like the balm of Gilead to our souls.

Don't you know this, that words are doctors to a diseased temperment?

There exists, for everyone, a sentence - a series of words - that has the power to destroy you. Another sentence exists, another series of words, that could heal you. If you're lucky you will get the second, but you can be certain of getting the first.

Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift.

When a tongue fails to send forth appropriate shafts, there might be a word to act as healer of these.

Parents, teachers, clergy and physicians change lives with their words. It is hypnotic for a child or patient to hear an authority figure's words. As I am always sharing, 'wordswordswords' can become 'swordswordswords,' and we can kill or cure with either words or swords.

A good apology is like antibiotic, a bad apology is like rubbing salt in the wound.

Words create conceptions and self-conceptions and ultimately nations. They can start and stop wars. They can would and heal. Choosing words carefully is a moral responsibility.

A generous heart repairs a slanderous tongue.

Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.

The spoken word is man's physician in grief. For this alone has soothing charms for the soul.

Sentences can save us. Who could ask for anything more?

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

The words we speak to each other should leave stretch marks, not bruises. Love is always picky about what it says.

When you think about it, words can break your heart, or they can change your day.

With words, I could build a world I could live in. I had a very dysfunctional family, and a very hard childhood. So I made a world out of words. And it was my salvation.

Kind words are the music of the world. They have a power which seems to be beyond natural causes, as if they were some angel's song which had lost its way and come to earth.