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Quotes About Recovery

To be baptized is to recover the humanity that God first intended. What did God intend? He intended that human beings should grow into such love for him and such confidence in him that they could rightly be called God's sons and daughters. Human
~ Rowan Williams
Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.
~ Rudyard Kipling
When a snake misses its stroke, it never says anything or gives any sign of what it means to do next.
~ Rudyard Kipling
You can't do anything with a man whose mind is gone.
~ Ruth Downie
Could a child who had never been inside a house, who had never seen a bathtub, or a flush toilet, who had long forgotten what his parents looked like before they were shot or burned, ever be normal?
~ Ruth Gruber
we were attempting to snatch hope from the rubble of our broken city. And food was the perfect way to do it.
~ Ruth Reichl
But for all we've lost, hope is in fact one thing we Japanese have regained. The great earthquake and tsunami have robbed us of many lives and resources. But we who were so intoxicated with our own prosperity have once again planted the seed of hope. So I choose to believe.
~ Ry? Murakami
Only time can heal wounds as deep as that—a lot of time—and all you can really do is place yourself in its hands and try to consider the passing of each day a victory.
~ Ry? Murakami
The death of someone close to you, he realized at that moment, was something you came to accept one concrete fact at a time.
~ Ry? Murakami
This is how people behave when their dailiness is destroyed, when for a few moments they see, plain and unadorned, one of the great shaping forces of life. Calamity fixes them with her mesmeric eye, and they begin to scoop and paw at the rubble of their days, trying to pluck the memory of the quotidian - a toy, a book, a garment, even a photograph - from the garbage heaps of the irretrievable, of their overwhelming loss.
~ Salman Rushdie
Are you alcoholic? it read. We can help. Call this number for liquor home delivery.
~ Salman Rushdie
An old, secret pain welled up in him, begging for healing.
~ Salman Rushdie
You can get the boys out of the war, but you can't get the war out of the boys.
~ Salman Rushdie
some fortunate patients could enter the OO (or Optimal Outcome) group whose members no longer showed any of the symptoms of autistic disorder
~ Salman Rushdie
Physician heal thyself.
~ Salman Rushdie
Mândria r?nit? este suferinÈ›a din care-È›i revii cel mai greu, c?ci o fractur? la demnitatea È™i stima de sine a omului e mult mai grav? decât una la picior, iar vindecarea dureaz? È™i ea mult mai mult.
~ Salman Rushdie
Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.
~ Emma Watson
I do think, as crazy as it sounds, that sports is an addiction and that it should be accorded some of the same supports as any other addiction.
~ Steve Almond
Recover the source of all strength in yourself, and all else will be added to you ... political freedom, the mastery of human thought, the hegemony of the world.
~ Sri Aurobindo
It is important for me to share my experiences in order to create strength and hope for others. No matter how far down you go, it is never too late to come back.
~ Theoren Fleury
Whenever a man is tired, wine is a great restorer of strength.
~ Homer
A scar is a sign of strength. . .the sign of a survivor.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
I had been in the hurrying waters too long not to appreciate an opportunity to lie on the bank and rest, watch others, and gain strength for the coming years.
~ Ellen Swallow Richards
Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.
~ Stephen King, The Dead Zone