Quotes About Recovery

The sharper the storm, the sooner it's over.

Thank goodness for hearts that wouldn't die, for spirits that still danced even after they'd been wounded.

she never asked. She waited for the shrapnel buried in his soul to work its own way to the surface.

When a person suffers from anxiety attacks, one of the greatest obstacles to recovery can be the fear that these attacks are the indication of a major physical illness—and in rare cases that is true. But most often, when a person continually worries about physical illness, that kind of worry intensifies or even produces panic attacks. In other words, the less you worry, the healthier you will become.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have to to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

The world-flood has swept over our country

I started running 3 miles every morning after throat surgery to remove a cyst last year. The gym used to be my adversary. But that has all changed. Now, I look forward to it every morning.

The organization called Alcoholics Anonymous is doing a wonderful job in trying to rehabilitate some of these men.

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.

So much is lost, he said, in the shipwreck. What remains are fragments, and if you don't hold on to them the sea will take them too.

For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don't understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn't go away.

I feel vulnerable because my mind - because of the stroke, my mind doesn't focus. And then I feel vulnerable because I don't understand the world around me.

After your heart fails, you just feel really vulnerable for a while. You just want telly and your little house. Then, suddenly, three, four months have passed.

Although many people in Aceh are still poor and vulnerable, the province resembles nothing like the place I saw the day after the tsunami hit.

When you mess up publicly, it can be difficult to get vulnerable again or to put yourself out there.

I went through a lot of feelings of self-doubt and loss of self-esteem. I was particularly vulnerable after having my son. It was rough getting back on my feet in the business.

My back has been compressed and operated on, my feet have been surgically cut up, and I have a knee that's just going wacky. So I do my own driving, and I ski and skate. I'm playing hockey again. Anything that immobilizes my feet I'm OK with.

The administration is using the devastation of Hurricane Katrina to cut the wages of people desperately trying to rebuild their lives and their communities.

There must be a major economic recovery package which puts Americans to work at decent wages.

When you get released from the NFL it's not a pleasant experience and I may have sulked for about two or three years. Then I was like, 'You know what? It's time to get back on the wagon.' I have nothing to be ashamed of.

Here's to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it's caused me.

We all fall off the wagon. It's only one day; it's not the rest of your life. Pick yourself up and go again.

I've gone on the wagon, but my body doesn't believe it.