Best Healing Quotes from "Daily Dose of Sunshine" Korean Drama

It’s always darkest before the dawn... The darkest nights make way for sunlight. The light will shine on you. (Ms. Song)

All illnesses are caused by loss. You may have lost what you cherished the most. Or you may have lost yourself. Or maybe what you’ve lost is the memory of happy days. At times like these, we have to rely on something that seems quite old-fashioned, really. It’s just a little thing called hope. And we’re all here, searching, in order to find it. That cliched thing called hope. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

Even if it’s just one day, you have a bit of time, so don’t quit yet. There’s still hope if you try. You can still make it. I know it! (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

We are just survivors. Survivors constantly coping with loss. But we must not let it stop us. Instead, we should simply keep living each day. (Dr. Im Hyeok Soo)

You know, your body suffers when your heart is aching as well. Only way to deal with it, eating some good food, watching something funny, and engaging in self-care. (Dr. Dong)

If you feel depressed, tell me about how you feel. I don’t want to be someone who offers you an umbrella when you’re stood in the rain. I’d rather be someone who stands in the rain with you. 

People can start adopting personas to mask their low self-esteem. (Dr. Hwang Yeo Hwan)

Happiness isn’t complicated. Being free to do what you like, that’s happiness. (Song Yuchan)

No one is born as a patient, and no one stays a patient until the end. (Ms. Song)

The smallest of ripples is enough to cover us in cuts and bruises. That’s how weak we really are. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

I do hope you can love yourself a little more in the future. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

What we probably need right now is the courage to face down the hate directed at us. Yet our longing to be loved by others, our need for approval, they cause us to take knives to our souls and carve out what we want others to see. That’s the reason we are always enduring unhappiness and pain. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

For me, the happiest moment in my life, was when I took everything off and danced. The moment when people were judging me, calling me a lunatic, was the first time I felt like I could breathe properly.

Work on surrounding yourself with people who make you feel that way too. People that can take care of you when you have a bad panic attack, when you feel like you’re going to die at any moment. They’re the ones who will help you breathe. (Dr. Dong)

There’s only one way to get rid of anxiety. Finding one’s own safety mechanism. Someone you can let in. Someone who you can go to for help. One that will offer you company when you need it. To find a hole to breathe through in the monotony of the daily grind. (Song Yuchan)

Ask patients about how they might be feeling, listen to them, but address emotions that might hide behind their answer. (Nurse Hong)

See, when you put all of your heart and soul into your dear patients, then it all adds up. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

Sometimes, we get patients who need consolation, and not just a nurse. (Mr. Yoon) 

Humans have a tendency to pin all the blame on others when they’re powerless to make a change. They hate and blame some other person because it’s potentially all they have left to hold onto. (Dr. Hwang Yeo Hwan)

Some people are too busy to realize that they have clinical depression. (Dr. Cha Min Seo)

The ability to look back on your emotions is so important. (Dr. Cha Min Seo)

There’s no guarantee you’ll pass, even if you try your best. But it’s hard to quit when you’ve tried so long. It’s like passing must be within your reach somehow. And then you just get trapped in that cycle. (Kim Seo Wan)

Like, who cares about how long or hard you worked? It’s only if you pass the test that anyone cares, right? And so people on the outside will keep on seeing you as a loser who didn’t put in the work. (Kim Seo Wan) 

Trying to balance work and family is so hard. (Kwon Ju Yeong)

Don’t push too much. It’s gonna be hard. You’ll give everything, but you’ll still be so hard on yourself, for what you couldn’t do. The guilt will eat at you. It’s just so much to carry. (Kwon Ju Yeong)

How would you make anyone else happy if you're not happy yourself?

You won’t realize you’re starting to wither away. Your life will be covered in yellow marks. You might not notice the bad signs to catch your attention. You’ll turn a blind eye to your happiness, for your child’s happiness. (Kwon Ju Yeong)

You see, how can you make way for her joy if you haven’t made way for yours? (Kwon Ju Yeong)

The only way to go from friends to lovers is to ask them out. But it has to be done at the right moment.

(I think it’s not really a matter of timing :( It’s a matter of having the courage to change the nature of your relationship.)

I always thought timing was the issue that I had missed the perfect moment. But that wasn’t the case. One of us had courage, and the other just didn’t. That’s all there was to it. And today, I’m blaming the timing yet again, when really I’m just being a coward. (Song Yuchan)

Dealing with death isn’t something you can just get used to. It’s sad every single time. (Dr. Hwang Yeo Hwan)

She’s strong but also fragile. She laughs a lot but cries a lot. She’s not really good at hiding her feelings. (Song Yuchan)

Time is what you need, of course. That being said, how you use that time is what really matters. (Ms. Song)

Turns out, time didn’t solve anything for me. Everyone has gone back to life as usual. I’m the only one stuck in the same spot. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

They really want to be loved but they don’t know how to love others. (Nurse Jungran)

Trying to force someone to complete a task they physically can’t do, is violence. (Dr. Hwang Yeo Hwan)

It’s so strange. We always notice other people’s flaws before our own flaws. When it comes to that, we’re all blind. (Patient)

Don’t let someone make you feel small. Stop shrinking away. That just let’s people walk all over you. (Nurse Song) 

When someone likes me, I get so anxious. I wonder how they could ’cause I’m worthless. I start doubting who I am or if I deserve love. Do you know why? ‘Cause I’ve never felt affection [from mom, e.g.: saying "you're so pretty", "you've done a good job"]. Being appreciated is such a foreign concept that I’m not even able to love someone else back. (Nurse Min Deul Re)

Every single day, I'm going to stand by you and remind you how special you are. I'll remind you what an amazing person you are.

She takes care of others more than she does herself. And she grieves for others more than she does her own losses. Whatever the challenge is, she embraces all the good, somehow swallowing what’s bad. And when something outside her understanding happens, she always criticizes herself. (Dr. Dong) 

The most crucial thing is family. Refrain from criticizing her. Cheer her on and also give her all of the support and time she needs to get through this. (Dr. Dong)

("Daily Dose of Sunshine" feels so real to me. Daeun tried to heal her pain by making time for exercise and keeping busy. But she realized she was only pushing herself too hard because she didn’t want to trouble anyone. And then she collapsed, not knowing how much she was suffering. 

We don’t need to act like everything is okay. Sometimes, we all need to escape from the world. Don’t just ask someone if they're okay, show them that you’re here for them. A pat on the back can mean so much.~)

The cliffhangers at the end of the episodes might help her wanna live.

(Sometimes, the only thing that kept us going was the suspense of what would happen next in our favorite show. I know it might sound strange to some people, but having that one small thing to look forward to can really save our life.)

It’s time you put looking out for others on hold and took care of yourself. (Dr. Dong)

Have you ever focused on trying to make yourself happy instead? (Doctor Daeun) 

I knew all of my friends’ favorite things, inside and out. But I guess I never bothered trying to understand my own wants. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

Despite taking such good care of others, I neglected myself. And suddenly, now I was the one who needed saving. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

I learned that complimenting myself is a lot more rewarding than receiving a compliment from others. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)

I started looking forward to sunshine greeting me every morning. (Nurse Jung Da Eun)