Quotes About Recovery

Your brain needs plenty of rest to function at it's optimal level. Go to sleep!

Give yourself permission to let it hurt but also allow yourself the permission to let it heal.

It's as though you had lost an arm or leg but still instinctively reach out to feel your missing limb or try to walk again, placing your entire weight on something that is no longer is there.

It hurt to be wounded. But healing begins with forgiveness.

When the heart gets hurt, It always rains.

Light enters a broken vessel more easily than an intact one.

She can feel her vanished talent like a phantom limb, the empty ache of its subtraction from the short list of her assets, and she knows with spiteful certainty that it is gone for good.

it's easy to be forgetful when you're grieving, even forget those things that you believe most people wouldn't.

We may never be able to forget what has happened. We may harbor the sadness from it in our hearts forever. The former of these is unavoidable.

I want my life back.-Dear Blue Sky

For example, brain-damaged individuals who lack the ability to sleep in the slow-wave phase nonetheless have normal, even improved, memory.

Friends, there is nothing more intoxicating for a depressed person with an alcoholic parent in his past than being told you are loved and wanted.

God revealed this to Ezekiel as to the coalition of invading nations: "After many days you will be called to arms. In future years you will invade a land that has recovered from war, whose people were gathered from many nations to the mountains of Israel, which had long been desolate. They had been brought out from the nations, and now all of them live in safety." (Ezekiel 38:8).

The best cure for a broken heart is a dozen eggs.

Getting Back To Even – Your Personal Economic Recovery Plan

I'm thinking I don't know what I'd possibly write about in a journal," I told him, even though I knew what he intended. But I'd spent so much time in other windowless rooms, recounting the details of that night at the church for a white-haired detective and a haggard-looking assistant district attorney, that I felt no desire to do it again.

A favorite freebie was the heat-sensitive Oxy-Contin mug that bore the words: "The one to start with . . . ." When filled with hot coffee, the rest of the slogan materialized: "The one to stay with.

Needle marks scarred her hands, the only place on her body she could still find a vessel. She was dissolving and injecting ten to twenty pills a day. The highs weren't really highs anymore, just a break from the bone-deep pain of withdrawal.

That's one of the things that lies in the deeps, never far enough from the surface; the only real difference between the broken ones and everyone else is that the broken ones know there isn't one.

I'm lucky to have a leg at all," Heldt had once told him. "The fucking surgeon was a butcher. He should have cut the fucking thing off and handed me a crutch." The cinema was his crutch.

Psychologists Michael Scheier and Charles Carver found a correlation between optimism and recovery from coronary artery bypass surgery.15 Others have studied how attitudes affect recovery and found that this improvement is not a function of a patient's tendency to deny that he was ill.

What you resist persists. Previous traumas that are unresolved or hidden have a significant influence in amplifying current traumatic events and hindering recovery.

I started getting these attacks in 2009, just as my music career was taking off. I'd be doing photo-shoots and started to feel like I was having heart attacks. Increasingly I found it difficult to step outside my flat. Things started to get better after I saw a therapist, who told me I needed to make peace with my panic attacks.

About 10 percent of the time, after [a] patient has recovered … pain persists. It persists for months and oftentimes for years, and when that happens, it is its own disease.