Quotes About Recovery

She could show her daughter that there was another way to live. A way that did not involve anesthetizing yourself. A way that did not mean you lived your whole life as an apology for who you were.

You were reading my Flannery O'Connor the other day." He took a sip of his drink. "When I was ill." "The short stories? I can't believe you noticed that." "I couldn't help but notice. You left the book out on the side. I can't pick it up." "Ah." "So don't read rubbish. Take the O'Connor stories home. Read them instead." I

Beside me Sam had started to shake silently. "Stop them," he murmured. "I'm going to bust my stitches.

And then Will got pneumonia.

if not exactly well, then not scarily ill.

So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, you had done it even a degree differently.

So here is the thing about being involved in a catastrophic, life-changing event. You think it's just the catastrophic life-changing event that you're going to have to deal with: the flashbacks, the sleepless nights, the endless running over events in your head, asking yourself if you had done the right thing, said the things you should have said, whether you could have changed things, had you done it even a degree differently.

This week's Moving On Circle is about guilt, survivor's guilt, guilt that we didn't do enough... It's often this that keeps us from moving forward.

Now I sat on a moulded plastic chair, my mind numb, my gaze fixed on a wall, unable to tell how long I had been there. I couldn't think. I couldn't feel. I just existed: me, the plastic chair, the squeaky linoleum under my bloodied tennis shoes.

The floods had devastated the lower reaches of the town, home to the poorer families who were less likely to make a noise about it. Or at least have that noise listened to. In the more affluent parts of town, life had already pretty much returned to normal.

We emerged into the afternoon light dazed and emotionally spent.

White-water rafting and scuba diving were not part of his plan for convalescence.

when it came down to it, what was the point in reexamining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking away at a wound and refusing to let it heal.

After the emotional turbulence of the past week, it was good to be surrounded by a bit of normality.

Vi?a zaud?jums ir gluži k? kr?t?s izrauts caurums, nerimstoša smeldze, tukšums, kuru man nekad neizdosies aizpild?t.

Es grib?ju v?nu, vair?kas lielas gl?zes, kas pal?dz?tu man sa?emties un neskat?ties atpaka?. Vai ar? visp?r nekur neskat?ties.

But in my experience there's not much that can't be fixed by a decent cup of tea…

what was the point in reexamining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking away at a wound and refusing to let it heal.

And when it came down to it, what was the point in re-examining your sadness all the time anyway? It was like picking at a wound and refusing to let it heal.

I would think about myself for a change. I would let myself heal.

But...sometimes, Louisa, moving on means we do have to protect ourselves.

I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.

World War II ended the Great Depression with one of the great public-private industrial collaborations in the history of man.

Kan någon tala om vad man säger när man stöter ihop med en av sina vänner efter semestern och han har fallit ihop till ett nästan ingenting, som ett hus som demolerats i en storm?