You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it. – Rumi

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation. – G. K. Chesterton

So many come to the sickroom thinking of themselves as men of science fighting disease and not as healers with a little knowledge helping nature to get a sick man well. – Auckland Geddes, The Practitioner

Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease. – Hippocrates