Quotes About Recovery

I haven't lost my mind; I have a tape back-up somewhere.

Rejoice with me; for I have found my sheep which was lost.

Broken tools can be replaced. You can't.

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

For I am a stranger with thee, and a sojourner, as all my fathers were.O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Drugs may be the road to nowhere, but at least they're the scenic route.

Resting is the sort of thing you've got to work up to gradually. It's very dangerous to rest all of a sudden.

Seven days of no swimming makes one weak.

Post coitum omne animal triste [Every creature is sad after coitus].

It was hard to live through the early 1940s in France and not have the war be the center from which the rest of your life spiraled. Marie-Laure still cannot wear shoes that are too large, or smell a boiled turnip, without experiencing revulsion. Neither can she listen to lists of names. Soccer team rosters, citations at the end of journals, introductions at faculty meetings – always they seem to her some vestige of the prison lists that never contained her father's name.

Forgetting, he is learning, is how the world heals itself.

Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding?

Nothing will be healed in this kitchen. Some griefs can never be put right ... She only wants a tide of normality to wash in and cover everything again.

Here was the worst curse: he managed to force the dream from his conscious mind often enough that when it returned to him (opening the pantry door, say, recalling the sweep of floodwater), the experience of it became fresh and bleeding once more.

Sometimes the things we think are lost are only hidden, waiting to be rediscovered

The heart heals but never completely.

It is as if he has been drowning for as long as he can remember and somebody has fetched him up for air.

Why can't healing happen as quickly as wounding? You twist an ankle, break a bone—you can be hurt in a heartbeat. Hour by hour, week by week, year by year, the cells in your body labor to remake themselves the way they were the instant before your injury. But even then you're never the same: not quite.

Falling down is the first step towards coming back stronger

By any rights, he should be dead. He was involved in an explosion with a bomb, which he happened to be carrying at the time. Conrad is something of a scientific miracle. There are more than thirty metal pins in his body. He has a metal plate in his skull. There are metal wires in his jaw and in most of his major joints." "He must set off a lot of airport alarms," Alex muttered.

It was as if she had been locked up in a lunatic asylum for so long that she had forgotten she was actually mad.

It is true that we have many ways of coping with loss,' he said. 'And grief is never rational.

That was a long time, an abyss into which Cecily had fallen.

The world was healing itself.