34 Loving Quotes To Sooth Your Soul And Heal Your Wounds

In honor of mental health awareness month, I prepared for you 34 loving quotes as a way to offer yourself kindness, compassion, and a loving word. 

We all know that healing is messy, and it often takes a great amount of power and love to heal our wounds.

However, one of the most common things I see people do is that they ridicule their process. Since their logical brain can’t understand certain behaviors they have ( often because of their unhealed wounds), they go for guilt and judgment and, therefore, paralyze themselves in the process. 

Although we may take a wrong turn sometimes and repeat the “silly” things until we learn the lesson, that is often what healing is – imperfect, chaotic, illogical, and confronting. 

Having said that, I invite you to use these loving quotes as a way to treat yourself with as much compassion and understanding during this process as you can. Be the love you are seeking and support you are longing for. 

We are all just a bunch of humans trying to figure out life and overcome things that happened to us when we had no control at all. I love you. 

34 Loving quotes

“What happens when people open their hearts? They get better.” Haruki Murakami

“The practice of forgiveness is our most important contribution to the healing of the world.” Marianne Williamson 

“You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we’re not. We always have the power of our minds. Claim and consciously use your power.” Louise L. Hay

“A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.” Andrew Matthews 

“Wounding and healing are not opposites. They’re part of the same thing. It is our wounds that enable us to be compassionate with the wounds of others. It is our limitations that make us kind to the limitations of other people. It is our loneliness that helps us to find other people or to even know they’re alone with an illness. I think I have served people perfectly with parts of myself I used to be ashamed of. ” Rachel Naomi Remen 

“Letting ourselves be forgiven is one of the most difficult healings we will undertake. And one of the most fruitful.” Stephen Levine

“Sometimes the hardest part of the journey is believing you’re worth the trip.” Glenn Beck

“Don’t waste a second of your life convincing other people that you’re worth loving.” Atticus

“If you have the ability to love, love yourself.” Charles Bukowski 

“Don’t worry if people think you are crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.” Jennifer Elisabeth

“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.” Rumi 

“I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” Brene Brown 

“I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.” Maya Angelou

“How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.” Rupi Kaur

“Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently.” Michelle Obama 

‘Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.” Tina Fey

“All love begins with the love within.” Virokinka Tugaleva

“I am safe inside this container called me.” Haruki Murakami 

“I show my scars so that others know they can heal.” Rhachelle Nicol 

“When wounds are healed by love. The scars are beautiful.” David Bowles

“Self-compassion is simply giving the same kindness to ourselves that we would give to others.” Christopher Germer 

“It’s like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms.Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief.” Thich Nhat Hanh

 “Stop beating yourself up for beating yourself up.” Eleanor Brown 

“Compassion isn’t some kind of self-improvement project or ideal that we’re trying to live up to. Having compassion starts and ends with having compassion for all those unwanted parts of ourselves, all those imperfections that we don’t even want to look at.” Pema Chodron 

“I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.” Mahatma Gandhi 

“As we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same” Marianne Williamson 

“Your relationship with yourself sets the tone for every other relationship you have.” Robert Holden 

“Love yourself. Enough to take the actions required for your happiness. Enough to cut yourself loose from the drama-filled past. Enough to set a high standard for relationships. Enough to feed your mind and body in a healthy manner. Enough to forgive yourself. Enough to move on.” Steve Maraboli 

“I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives.” Dalai Lama

“There is no timestamp on trauma. There isn’t a formula that you can insert yourself into to get from horror to healed. Be patient. Take up space. Let your journey be the balm.” Dawn Serra 

“Healing from trauma can also mean strength and joy. The goal of healing is not a papering-over of changes in an effort to preserve or present things as normal. It is to acknowledge and wear your new life – warts, wisdom, and all – with courage.” Catherine Woodiwiss

“Instead of saying ‘I am damaged. I am broken. I have trust issues.’ I say ‘I am healing. I am rediscovering myself. I am starting over.” Horacio Jones

“Trauma creates change you don’t choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.” Michelle Rosenthal 

“People start to heal the moment they feel heard.” Cheryl Rochardson 

“Healing happens when you’re triggered and you’re able to move through the pain, the pattern, the story and walk your way to a different ending.” Vienna Pharaon