"If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it."

Matshona Dhliwayo, Zimbabwean Philosopher

Healing, Wound, Time, Patience

12

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

"If you touch a wound while it is healing, you will prolong it."

Exlpore more Healing quotes

"Grief is a curious thing, when it happens unexpectedly. It is a Band-Aidbeing ripped away, taking the top layer off a family. And the underbellyof a household is never pretty, ours no exception. There were times Istayed in my room for days on end with headphones on, if only so that Iwould not have to listen to my mother cry. There were the weeks that myfather worked round-the-clock shifts, so that he wouldn't have to comehome to a house that felt too big for us."

Jodi Picoult, American Novelist

Healing, Grief, Pain, Family, Loss

"Your greatest healing lies in forgiving all that has wrong and hurt you."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

Healing, Forgiving, Wrong, Hurt

"Maybe if we love ourselves healthy we will all heal?"

Nikki Rowe, American Writer

Healing, Self-Love, Hope, Compassion

"How do you go on, when in your heart you begin to understand... there is no going back? There are some things that time cannot mend. Some hurts that go too deep."

J. R. R. Tolkien, English Novelist

Healing, Heart, Understanding, Time, Hurt

"What crucial conversations need to be readdressed in your personal and professional relationships in order for you to gain peace, clarity, and resolution? Create the space in your life to readdress what needs to be given hope for healing."

Susan C. Young, American Author

Healing, Resolution, Truth, Wisdom, Power

"When we think, we hurt. When we feel, we heal."

A. D. Posey, American Poet

Healing, Thinking, Feeling, Pain

"The sun heals me every day and opens my heart to ever-expanding bliss."

Amy Leigh Mercree, American Author

Healing, Happiness, Nature, Truth

"For how long will you continue to deal with the pain that comes with the grudges in your heart?"

Edmond Mbiaka, American Author

Healing, Pain, Forgiveness, Mindset

"Sometimes people in abusive situations think they're responsible for the other person's happiness or that they're going to fix them and make them feel better. The practice of equanimity teaches that it's not all up to you to make someone else happy."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

Healing, Responsibility, Happiness, Compassion, Self-Care

"Smoke your pain but keep the ashes forever."

M.F. Moonzajer, Afghan Author

Healing, Pain, Memory, Struggle

Explore more quotes by Matshona Dhliwayo

"Why weep when it takes less energy to laugh? Why frown when it takes less energy to smile? Why despair when it takes less energy to hope? Why fear when it takes less energy to love?"

Positivity

"Positive thoughts precede positive results."

Motivation

"A loyal pet is better than a faithless friend."

Friendship

"If you have never walked a mile in someone's shoes, do not mock the soars on his feet."

Empathy

"I am your earth if you want me to be. I am your sky if you want me to be. I am your sun if you want me to be. I am your world if you want me to be. I am your universe if you want me to be."

Devotion

"No one can steal your happiness unless you give them the key to your heart's safe."

Empowerment

"The size of the seed does not determine the size of the tree."

Growth

"Don't think about sharks when you are walking on water."

Courage

"Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life."

Purpose

"Don't speak thoughtlessly. Don't worry unnecessarily. Don't work half-heartedly. Don't spend recklessly. Don't give begrudgingly. Don't act self-centeredly. Don't live short-sightedly."

Mindset