Quotes About Recovery

But in some ways he didn't survive.

Work is the best remedy for any shock

Now that they were no longer half-numbed with starvation, they had time both for leisure and for the first rudiments of thought.

Fortunately, human beings are extraordinarily resilient: it takes a pretty bad upbringing to do permanent damage.

Se necesita una educación muy mala para que el daño sea permanente.

The public, not unnaturally, goes upon the principle that he who would heal others must himself be whole.

When we were left alone in the stone-flagged kitchen, it was astonishing how rapidly that sprained ankle recovered.

No es el dolor que nos infligen el que nos destruye. Es el dolor que dejamos dentro de nuestros corazones el que lo hace.

I do not like to remember that trip. Not that I was awake for much of it--for which I am grateful. I kept sliding in and out of consciousness, and believe me, the outs were much more welcome than the ins.

And broken things can be fixed.

Analytic experience has taught us that the better is always the enemy of the good and that in every phase of the patient's recovery we have to fight against his inertia, which is ready to be content with an incomplete solution.

hypnosis] does not permit us. . .to recognize the resistance with which the patient clings to his disease and thus even fights against his own recovery; yet it is this phenomenon of resistance which alone makes it possible to comprehend his behavior in daily life.

During the treatment our therapeutic work is constantly swinging backwards and forwards like a pendulum between a id-analysis and a piece of ego-analysis. In the one case we want to make something from the id conscious, in the other we want to correct something in the ego. The crux of the matter is that the defensive mechanisms directed against former danger recur in the treatment as resistances against recovery. It follows from this that the ego treats recovery itself as a new danger.

No stronger impression arises from the resistances during the work of analysis than of there being a force which is defending itself by every possible means against recovery and which is absolutely resolved to hold on to illness and suffering.

To draw me out, the therapist asks what I did for the holidays. When I tell him he says gently (he says everything gently), Sounds like that's one of the ways your loss has affected you: not wanting to be with other people. Hating to be with other people, I don't say. Terrified of being with other people.

The exhaustion of mourning was my thought.

Because it was the ugliness that drew him to her: it told him that she had suffered and been ruined by the war just like him. For her the damage was visible, whereas for him it was hidden beneath the surface. But they were still the same—casualties, walking wounded, carrying on without hope of recovery, separated from the rest of the population by an experience that they could neither share nor explain.

We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.

A menudo curar es mutilar.

Toute expérience de perte produit une brisure mais par la grâce de la littérature cette brisure peut se transformer en lien.

Reek took not more than an hour to relate what would've taken the most intelligent man five or six hours--that is, five minutes of speech and the rest of the five hours to recover from the nausea caused by having to utter such shameless rot...

You will, I trust, resemble a forest plant, which has indeed, by some accident, been brought up in the greenhouse, and thus rendered delicate and effeminate, but which regains its native firmness and tenacity, when exposed for a season to the winter air.

Thou are boot for many a bruise, And healest many a wound; In our Lady's blessed name, I take thee from the ground.

Your peace won't begin after you heal, but when you agree to heal.