Quotes About Recovery

all these things that now, while we are still in the war, sink down in us like a stone, after the war shall waken again, and then shall begin the disentanglement of life and death.

It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months.

Of the 791 passengers designated by Cunard as missing, only 173 bodies, or about 22 percent, were eventually recovered, leaving 618 souls unaccounted for. The percentage for the crew was even more dismal, owing no doubt to the many deaths in the luggage room when the torpedo exploded.

Time lost can never be recovered," he said, "and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.

Fires were still raging all over the place; some of the larger buildings were mere skeletons, and many of the smaller houses had been reduced to piles of rubble." He was struck in particular by the sight of paper Union Jacks planted in mounds of shattered lumber and brick. These, he wrote, "brought a lump to one's throat.

I'm sure once he recovers from the muscle tone and tattoos he'll be fine.' Good thing he didn't know about the penis piercing. That would give him a heart attack. Or the fact that I had seen the penis piercing.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places.

I was blown up while we were eating cheese.

Strong in all the Broken Places

The old man opened his eyes and for a moment he was coming back from a long way away. Then he smiled.

After a while I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain.

THE GAMBLER,THE NUN,& THE RADIO Everything is mucho simpler in a hospital, including jokes

The colonel breakfasted with the leisure of a fighter who has been clipped badly, hears four, and knows how to relax truly for five seconds or more.

Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought.

It was probably bad busting it off," Bill said. "But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you." "Yes

We're stronger in the places that we've been broken.

El mundo nos rompe a todos, mas después, algunos se vuelven fuertes en los lugares rotos

I'm Not All-Right, and You're Not All-Right, But That's Okay—THAT'S All-Right

For women and men, for alcoholics and non-alcoholics, spirituality is one of those realities that we have only so long as we seek it; as soon as we stop seeking, we stop finding; as soon as we think we've got it, we've most certainly lost it.

Influenced by the events surrounding him, Bill Wilson began and ended his portrayal of A.A.'s Twelve Steps as "a way of life" by stressing the continuing necessity of the total deflation of even a raised "bottom" and the persistence in even the "recovering alcoholic" of childishness, immature grandiosity, and infantile defiance.

Betrayed by our beloved, we suffer the loss of a coherent narrative—the "internal structure that helps us predict and regulate future actions and feelings [creating] a stable sense of self," as psychiatrist Anna Fels defines it.

infidelity is not just a loss of love; it is a loss of self.