Quotes About Recovery

When the ideas or forms we need are banished, we seek their residues wherever we can trace them

we are the half-destroyed instruments that once held a course

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

Sorrow for a person is different—one can't put that behind one. But one can get over shock and horror by just not letting your mind dwell on it all the time.

She began laughing wildly again. Dr. Armstrong strode forward. He raised his hand and struck her a flat blow on the cheek. She gasped, hiccupped—and swallowed. She stood motionless a minute, then she said: "Thank you … I'm all right now.

special Counterpart Fund, which, at its peak, reached DM 20 billion. This fund, which played a crucial part in German recovery, was administered by the government-owned Reconstruction Loan Corporation, run by Abs. It built houses, ships, repaired bridges and docks, rehabilitated public services like gas, water and electricity, and also met some part of the compensation claims for which the government made itself responsible.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.

postpartum, and

Jive Lady Just hang loose blood. She gonna handa your rebound on the med side.

Just give me a second to get my wind back. Who the hell put that pole there?

This was truly the worst natural disaster Americans had ever seen. While death tolls would always be imperfect, it's fair to say that around 10,000 people perished in one night. And

Doesn't that look beautiful after ten years without a beer?

You can't go through sustained cruelty and terror for a large swathe of your life and not talk about it and be okay.

Even after being beaten down lower than I thought possible, I always bounced back. I still looked for love again.

the best way to heal it is to admit it will always be there.

You may have heard that your grief journey's end will come when you resolve, or recover from, your grief. But your journey will never end. Soften, yes, but end, no. People do not "get over" the death of a pet.

Everyone at some point will suffer a loss—the loss of loved ones, good health, a job. It's your desert experience—a time of feeling barren of options, even hope. The important thing is not to allow yourself to be stranded in the desert." — Patrick Del Zoppo

I wanted us to have a holiday, not a ruddy breakdown.

That man's gaga," said Roger when they were out of hearing. "He's so far gone he's coming back.

At the heart of all great movements is a recovery of a simple Christology (essential conceptions of who Jesus is and what he does), yet one that accurately reflects the Jesus of New Testament faith—they are in a very literal sense Jesus movements.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

There is a hard law. When an injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.