Quotes About Recovery

Peace of mind creates the most conducive conditions for physical healing.

She yanked open his shirt, put the injector against his heart and pulled the trigger. She held her breath waiting to see if it would work, ticking off the seconds. Ten. Twenty. Thirty. The twitching stopped. Forty. Fifty. Sixty. Owen opened his eyes. Bay smiled at him. "Those are the loveliest red-rimmed eyes I've ever seen." Owen managed a wobbly grin. "Ditto.

She limped, unaided around the house, like a bird with its wing broken. Tame, because it couldn't fly away. All her time was taken up with managing herself, working out new ways to do things. Being a different person in the world.

Something had been taken away from him in the war, against his will, and he would never be the same. Years in labour camps, in mountains, in salt mines: only solitude was natural to him now. Some part of him was terminally tired. He was beyond intimacy. The pretence at normality, the weight of the past, the unreality of the days here had exhausted him.

It's my belief that animals can help a human being travel to the wounds of childhood. The best part is, once you go there, you can fix things. Get on with life.

Things hurt, and don't hurt, and hurt again.

We just got home from the hospital and my arm is in a cast. I've survived a near death experience!

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

Once you had put the pieces back together, even though you may look intact, you were never quite the same as you'd been before the fall.

The damage was permanent; there would always be scars. But even the angriest scars faded over time until it was difficult to see them written on the skin at all, and the only thing that remained was the memory of how painful it had been.

Broken hearts heal with time, but broken teeth never do.

Experience had taught her that not all scars showed, and those that did might be the least bothersome.

I hoped her mood would pass, but it looked as if something essential inside her had slipped away. Shell shock. Fatigue of battle. War neurosis. Apparently, it didn't take long to strike.

The best way to find something you have lost is to buy a replacement.

He's been sucker-punched by memories of his brother. This happens sometimes, and he knows he has to ride the memories out.

He looks down at his busted legs, to avoid seeing the lethal sky.

When he woke up in the hospital, dry, and saw Sylvie on a chair next to him, his first thought was that he'd failed. The fact that he had failed meant he had to continue to walk forward with his life history--his mistakes--slung over his shoulders like a heavy backpack. This fact exhausted him, but he was too tired to reject it.

restitch himself to life's fabric. Dr. Dembia had

shadow represents either the blocking out of light or the other half of a person. When a character loses their shadow, they've lost a part of themselves and have to search to get it back.

Disillusionment [is] one of the deepest of human wounds.

all the woods and strands of Naples re-echoed with — 'O! giorno felíce! O! giorno felíce!' 'You see,' said Paulo, when they had departed, and he came to himself again, "you see how people get through their misfortunes, if they have but a heart to bear up against them, and do nothing that can lie on their conscience afterwards; and how suddenly one comes to be happy, just when one is beginning to think one never is to be happy again!

The refreshing pleasure from the first view of nature, after the pain of illness, and the confinement of a sick-chamber, is above the conceptions, as well as the descriptions, of those in health.

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

I only know that one day you wake up and realize it doesn't hurt quite so much. Until then you can put yourself in the hands of God- He'll see you through. You can take it from someone who knows, dear. I've found his hands to be an easy place to rest.