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Quotes About Recovery

She had a massive headache and there was blood running down her face, but she seemed to be otherwise OK.
~ Derek Landy
will heal your wounds," he said, "but I will not facilitate your battles.
~ Derek Landy
It wasn't all bad," Skulduggery responded. "It gave me time to catch up on some screaming.
~ Derek Landy
This sort of knockdown or capsize happens surprisingly often to small boats in bad storms. They usually survive, although their crews' nervous systems are never the same afterward. It has never happened to me. If it ever does, I'll take the old sailor's traditional retirement: walk inland carrying an oar until someone says, "What's that?," buy a chicken farm on that very spot, and never move.
~ Derek Lundy
Time takes away the grief of men.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
As for Bessi, she spent her first human month in an incubator, with wires in her chest, limbs straggling and pleading like a beetle on its back. The incubator had a lot to answer for.
~ Diana Evans
In attacking these readings, Dyson was attacking the very reason for the group; in limiting the participation of one of its members, Dyson eroded its spirit. It is one thing to criticize an author. It is another to shut him down. There is a difference between conflict and contempt. Dyson delivered an axe blow to the root of the tree. The Inklings were shaken, and they never quite recovered.
~ Diana Pavlac Glyer
I've got a hangover." "No, you hit your head on the floor." "I can't stay. I've got to rescue that fool Sophie.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Let's reframe what you're going through, Maggie," he said. "I'd like you to think of it as grief." "For the people who died?" "No. For yourself. For the life you thought you had before the fire. Before Ben.
~ Diane Chamberlain
Two decades had passed, yet she still saw her parents' bloodied bodies in every shooting victim she treated.
~ Diane Chamberlain
It's not my mind that's sick... It's my soul. ...and there aren't any drugs that are gonna fix that.
~ Diane Chamberlain
They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined could be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with.
~ Diane Hammond
They also learned that not everything broken could be fixed, and that not everything ruined cold be thrown away. Sometimes the damaged things were all you had to work with.
~ Diane Hammond
Painful memories are like landmines, patiently lying in wait. They lure us into places we ought to avoid, but sometimes, painful memories are all that we have left.
~ Diane Hughes
The Irish Economy Since 1922.
~ Diarmaid Ferriter
Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.
~ Dick Cavett
Reality had settled in, and they're both still waiting to recover.
~ Dinaw Mengestu
Time is a physician that heals every grief.
~ Diphilus
Yes, I said to myself, there are things I will never be able to do again. I don't like that and may even hate it, but that doesn't change the way things are. The sooner I make peace with that fact and accept the way things are, the sooner I'll be able to live in peace and enjoy my new normalcy.
~ Don Piper
I woke up to singing and found myself singing too
~ Don Piper
Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit. I
~ Don Piper
Some things happen to us from which we never recover, and they disrupt the normalcy of our lives. That's how life is. Human nature has a tendency to try to reconstruct old ways and pick up where we left off. If we're wise, we won't continue to go back to the way things were (we can't anyway). We must instead forget the old standard and accept a 'new normal.
~ Don Piper with Cecil Murphey
The strip runs forever along the Gulf Coast, and it makes you wonder why, on the night of Katrina, the Holy Comforter didn't take the opportunity to make a more comprehensive town-planning statement.
~ Don Watson
it. A junkie goes into the alley alone with the disease, it's the disease that walks out.
~ Don Winslow