Quotes About Recovery

Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.

...Time does not heal, It makes a half-stitched scar That can be broken and again you feel Grief as total as in its first hour. -Elizabeth Jennings

There is no grief which time does not lessen and soften. [Lat., Nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat.]

If you can really laugh at yourself loud and hard every time you fall, people will think you're drunk.

If theres an injury, for a couple games, you can have guys step in. But for a long period of time, it always catches up with you.

One cannot tell when he is going to be healed, so do not try to set an exact time limit. Faith, not time, will determine when the cure will be effected.

I've been on the floor and I've been heartbroken. I didn't know how I was going to stand up. But I just gave it time.

The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

Every time you try to quit smoking you are actually getting closer to staying smoke free

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

Time is generally the best doctor.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

I'd been ill and hadn't trained for a week and I'd been out of the team for three weeks before that, so I wasn't sharp. I got cramp before half-time as well. But I'm not one to make excuses.

Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process.

You cannot prove this in real time, but when economists 20 years from now write a book on the recovery, it may well be entitled, It could have been much better.

I made mistakes, I drank too much, I smoked some crack some time. What can I say? I made a mistake, I'm human.

When you lose a lover it's like getting a bad haircut. It grows back in time.

That's about the 1000th and tenth time (I've been asked about my neck). It's OK. I'm been doing a little stuff. I got some stuff from UT, weights to build you back up.

For four to six months at a time, I would barely eat. I lived on a diet of Melba toast, carrots, and black coffee.

Each time I told my story, I lost a bit, the smallest drop of pain.

The fact that you have been knocked down is interesting, but the length of time you remained down is important.

I felt I came back rather quickly from being ill and didn't give myself the time to reflect.

Well,' the Goddess said, 'your heart didn't heal straight the last time it broke. So we'll break it again and reset it so it heals straight this time.