Quotes About Recovery

Cuando creía que se le acababa la cuerda, él se recuperaba. Le cogí la cara entre mis manos y lo obligue a mirarme a los ojos «Me harás saber cuando llegue tu hora, ¿no?», dije, más a modo de declaración que de pregunta. No quería tomar la decisión por mí mismo. «Me lo harás saber, ¿no es cierto?»

It's amazing how a little tomorrow can make up for a whole lot of yesterday.

FOR MARY, the weeks and months after the explosion were the most critical of her life.

Trauma creates change you don't choose. Healing is about creating change you do choose.

A YEAR after the bomb was dropped, Miss Sasaki was a cripple; Mrs. Nakamura was destitute; Father Kleinsorge was back in the hospital; Dr. Sasaki was not capable of the work he once could do; Dr. Fujii had lost the thirty-room hospital it took him many years to acquire, and had no prospects of rebuilding it; Mr. Tanimoto's church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional vitality. The lives of these six people, who were among the luckiest in Hiroshima, would never be the same.

A hair of the dog that bit us.

If you were hurt at a younger age, its the thought that is killing you now

It is often said that the Germans have never recovered from the Thirty Years' War in the seventeenth century, that the brutality of that momentous clash between Protestant and Catholic armies hard-wired into their national character a sense of insecurity that they have never been able to shake off.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

our hearts break, and take us out of relationships that are too painful for us

A heart never breaks in the same pattern of pieces

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Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered.

People lose their way as an act of defence. Then they panic and decide they have to find it again.

I felt that my life was permanently damaged, that I could never be normal again, that the rest of my life would just be a shell.

One of the best feelings in the world was finding something you were sure you'd lost forever.

I happen to believe, Chadwick, that even the biggest disasters can be cleaned up, and I'll teach you to believe it too.

He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of surviving

As the green summer comes on you must be the better surely; if you can bear to lie out under the trees, the general health will rally and the local injury correct itself.

Dr. Chambers has freed me again into the drawing-room, and I am much better or he would not have done so. There is not, however, much strength or much health, nor any near prospect of regaining either. It is well that, in proportion to our feebleness, we may feel our dependence upon God.

For the last week I have not been at all well, and indeed was obliged yesterday to go to bed after breakfast instead of after tea, where I contrived to abstract myself out of a good deal of pain into Lord Byron's Life by Moore. To-day this abstraction is not necessary; I am much better; and, indeed, little remains of the indisposition but the vulgar fractions of a cough and cold.

We have come here to dip me in warm sea-water, in order to an improvement in strength, for I have been very weak and unwell of late, as perhaps Mrs. Jameson has told you. But the sea and the change have brought me up again, as I hope they may yourself, and now I am looking forward to getting back to Italy for the winter, and perhaps to Rome.