Mark Twain Quotes

I have a disease, but I also have a lot of other things.

A healthy mind can live in an unhealthy body.

I got well by talking. Death could not get a word in edgewise, grew discouraged, and traveled on.

I have battled clinical depression and have come out of the other side. I've been free of it for many years now. Finding the place in my own mind and heart to win that battle without using medication, finding the place within myself where I could be alive again, that was one of the biggest challenges I've faced.

I always say a tremendous amount of healing is in your own hands.

I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.

Depression opens the door to beauty of some kind.

You're always searching for the thing to heal you, and I thought therapy would give me that. But it didn't - it just helps you recognize your demons.

If we are willing to do the mental work, almost anything can be healed.

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.

What happened to me in Somalia doesn't define me.

Aging is not uncomplicated. Creativity is an extraordinary help against destructive demons.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

The struggle through the grief was a huge growing process for me. There were gifts that came from it. I learned a lot about myself. I got into a mode very much like my father's own mode of seeking - seeking solutions, seeking teachers, seeking information - to try to alleviate my own suffering.

At my lowest point, I found cooking.

I'm grateful to songwriting and recovery to bringing me to a place of peace.

I am so happy I have been able to channel all the things that I went through when I was younger and make them into something positive.

The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

"Pain has a way of clipping our wings and keeping us from being able to fly"... "And if left unresolved you can almost forget that you were ever created to fly in the first place."

It’s amazing how much you’re missing in a depressive state until you start to come out on the other side. It’s like breathing again after being underwater for far too long.

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well.

The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.