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Quotes About Recovery

Over the years, the U.S. economy has shown a remarkable ability to absorb shocks of all kinds, to recover, and to continue to grow.
~ Ben Bernanke
I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.
~ David Cottrell
Success is how you bounce on the bottom.
~ George S. Patton
But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.
~ Victor Hugo
Les blessures morales ont cela de particulier qu'elles se cachent, mais ne se referment pas; toujours douloureuses, toujours prêtes à saigner quand on les touche, elles restent vives et béantes dans le cÅ"ur.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Ah! j'étais cependant si bien dit-elle; j'étais presque morte.
~ Alexandre Dumas
A tutti i mali ci sono due rimedi: il tempo e il silenzio.
~ Alexandre Dumas
He used to say to his melancholia patients: You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription.Try to think every day how you can please someone.
~ Alfred Adler
Sleeping solves a lot of problems.
~ Alfred Slote
The money truck caught on fire and some of the money was burned, but we took what we could and later I made it a payday for everyone. I still have some of those burnt notes and someday I will cash them in for some good ones. The
~ Ali Ahmad Jalali
My grandmother told me once that when you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well, but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually, you pick yourself up and look out the window, and once you do you see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still. There are the same apple trees and the same songbirds, and over our heads, the very same sky that shines like heaven, so far above us we can never hope to reach such heights.
~ Alice Hoffman
She had lost some of who she was when she lost her beloved.
~ Alice Hoffman
But what you give up you can learn to live without, even if it causes you heartbreak at the start.
~ Alice Hoffman
I'd been bitten by a lion, but you had to look inside me to see the scar.
~ Alice Hoffman
Isn't that what love makes you do? Go on trying even when you're through. Go on even when you're made of ash, when there's nothing left inside you but the past?
~ Alice Hoffman
It was as if when he had been stolen as an infant, he had come back as a changeling, as if someone had reached inside him and grabbed his heart to keep under lock and key.
~ Alice Hoffman
Cleaning up after themselves was a low priority for Margo and my mother. They had both recovered from cancer scares, failed marriages, and lost hope; in their opinion, dirt could wait.
~ Alice Hoffman
We grew careless, as people who are lost often do.
~ Alice Hoffman
You're better than this," Franny said. "Am I? I see things I can't change, Franny. When I drink I stop the visions. It was in pieces but it's coming together in one picture. And lately, what I've been seeing is an accident. A bad one. And soon.
~ Alice Hoffman
Have you ever felt that you lost something, and you can't get it back? As though it's been stolen right out from under you? Sure, the barman said. It's called life.
~ Alice Hoffman
I wondered if damaged people ever got over what damaged them.
~ Alice Hoffman
When you lose somebody you think you've lost the whole world as well but that's not the way things turn out in the end. Eventually you pick yourself up and look out the window and once you do see everything that was there before the world ended is out there still.
~ Alice Hoffman
She doesn't know why she didn't turn out like the girl in Union Square, screaming at passersby, caught in the web of her own pain, but on nights when she's reading her veterinary journals, and the dogs are sleeping, she wonders if it's possible that when she rescued them, they rescued her as well.
~ Alice Hoffman
This is how he'll hurt you, this is the way you will blame yourself, this is your salvation, this is what you can see if you open your eyes.
~ Alice Hoffman