Quotes About Recovery

Hi, my name is Alexandra, and I'm a netaholic.

I came from a tough childhood. There was a lot of stuff that I'd actually forgotten or that I'd blocked or hidden away until I started addressing it.

Maternity leave is for women to hide and heal their disintegrating body.

If all goes well and my body reacts well, and I feel I have a good high level to compete amongst the best then I'll come back and play.

It was now to Aggie as if they were all dead and in the blessed world together, only she had brought with her an ache which it would need time to tune. All pain is discord.

On a summer morning she woke to a sense of returning health. She had been lying like a waste shore, at low spring-tide, covered with dry seaweeds, withered jelly-fishes, and a multitudinous life that gasped for the ocean: at last the cook washing throb of the great sea of bliss, whose fountain is the heart of God, had stolen upon her consciousness, and she knew that she lived.

The demon has a name that is known among men, though it frightens few and draws many, alas! His name is Self, and he is the shadow of your own self. First he made you love him, which was evil, and now he has made you hate him, which is evil also. But if he be cast out and never more enter into your heart, but remain as a servant in your hall, then you will recover from this sickness, and be whole and sound, and will find the varlet serviceable.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients-- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

There were things, your own acts, from which you could not recover. Something was killed in your breast; burnt out, cauterized out.

He seemed to have lost the power of intellectual effort, now that the stimulus of pain had been removed. He was not bored, he had no desire for conversation or distraction. Merely to be alone, not to be beaten or questioned, to have enough to eat, and to be clean all over, was completely satisfying. By degrees he came to spend less time in sleep, but he still felt no impulse to get off the bed.

For a few days after getting into the water the toad concentrates on building up his strength by eating small insects. Presently he has swollen to his normal size again, and then he goes through a phase of intense sexiness.

It is not easy to become sane.

Entonces, ¿hemos recuperado nuevamente lo que teníamos antes? -preguntó Boxer. - Esa es nuestra victoria -agregó Squealer.

It was pneumonia that we were fighting against, not against men

We were perhaps not so unlovable as we had come to believe.

I was back to feeling myself which, believe me, is no picnic.

We were low, lost, an object of ridicule, had almost nothing left, were failing, must take some action to halt our fall, and restore ourselves to ourselves. hans vollman

My problem was not only drinking; it was selfishness. The booze was leading me to put myself ahead of others, especially my family. I loved Laura and the girls too much to let that happen. Faith showed me a way out.

Ce sont, en fin de compte, les malades qui jugent le plus souvent, et de points de vue très divers, s'ils ne sont plus normaux ou s'ils le sont redevenus. Redevenir normal, pour un homme dont l'avenir est presque toujours imaginé à partir de l'expérience passée, c'est reprendre une activité interrompue, ou du moins une activité jugée équivalente d'après les goûts individuels ou les valeurs sociales du milieu.

One minute he stood transfixed, the next he uttered a crushing oath, and took a hasty stride forward. Mr Ringwood, recovering from his own stupefaction, closed with him, just as George, flushing vividly, sprang to his feet. Sherry! Mr Ringwood said warningly. For God's sake, dear boy, remember where you are! You can't choke George to death here!

At the end of the war I was shipped over to England and Dr. Strange—you've heard of him? He's a marvel—put me right.

A lot of the songs are based on my previous relationship. It didn't work out. I lost him, and it ruined me. I had to learn to get back on my feet. I used that heartbreak to create something really beautiful.

We must all work together to bring the best to Puerto Rico.

In the past, I had workaholic issues.