Albert Schweitzer Quotes

Each patient carries his own doctor inside him.

We are more successfully healed by the vis medicatrix naturae (healing power of nature) than by the most ingenious medical application.

One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves; most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

I've been amazed at how quickly people can heal themselves, actually.

The five patients in 'Rethinking Cancer' share with us the path of their recovery: the courage to take their own lives in their hands with a natural approach to healing their bodies.

The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.

The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician.

Please keep in mind the distinction between healing and treatment: treatment originates from outside, whereas healing comes from within.

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.

Your body has a remarkable capacity to begin healing itself, and much more quickly than people had once realized, if you simply stop doing what's causing the problem.

I had always been a quick healer.

All medicine is gradations and differences and nuances. And there's such a thing as natural recovery: people spontaneously get better. It happens.

The need is to recognize that The patient is the healer, Not the doctor.

My body is very wise; it knows how to heal itself.

Healing comes from the healed; not from the physician.

Network Spinal Analysis inspires us to trust the healing power within.

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

We are neither obstinately nor wilfully to oppose evils, nor truckle under them for want of courage, but that we are naturally to give way to them, according to their condition and our own, we ought to grant free passage to diseases; and I find they stay less with me who let them alone. And I have lost those which are reputed the most tenacious and obstinate of their own defervescence, without any help or art, and contrary to their rules. Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

Play is the most natural method of self-healing that childhood affords.

Consciously or unconsciously, every being is capable of healing himself or others.

Treatment originates outside you; healing comes from within.

Sometimes people, their creative drive comes from an energy to try to heal themselves.

The use of love is to heal. When it flows without effort from the depth of the Self, love creates health.

Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.