Quotes About Recovery

Linda hatte viele Narben. Die meisten von ihnen waren größer als die auf der Stirn und schlechter verheilt, denn sie lagen an Stellen, an die keine Wundsalbe und kein Chirurg jemals herankommen würden: tief unten, verborgen im Seelengewebe ihrer Psyche.

Ik gleed uit, mijn benen knikten om op de gladde kiezelweg en op het moment dat ik neerviel brak er iets in me wat nooit meer gelijmd zou kunnen worden.

La esperanza es como una astilla de vidrio clavada en el pie. Mientras permanece clavada en la carne sientes dolor a cada paso que das, pero una vez que te la han extraído la herida sangra un poco y tarda un tiempo en cicatrizar, pero al final uno puede seguir caminando.

Martin wished he had less experience, hadn't looked into so many empty faces to know first hand that there was no scalpel or chemotherapy in the entire world able to completely remove the cancer-like tumour that had established itself in this girl's soul after the hell she'd been through. In such cases psychologists and doctors were like engineers in Chernobyl or Fukushima. They could never get rid of the problem altogether, merely mitigate the consequences of the catastrophe

Me atrevo a profetizar que ésta será la actitud básica de Alemania tras perder la guerra nazi: el lloriqueo salvaje y testarudo de un niño enfermo que equipara ansioso la pérdida de su muñeco con el fin del mundo.

Because modern society has almost completely eliminated trauma and violence from everyday life, anyone who does suffer those things is deemed to be extraordinarily unfortunate. This gives people access to sympathy and resources but also creates an identity of victimhood that can delay recovery.

I want to believe that her memory will soon come back, because we don't have the strength to fight against forgetting.

It is part of the cure to want to be cured.

Many things have fallen only to rise higher.

The words wounded deeper than the bruises and the scars from any physical pain he inflicted on me. At least those wounds healed.

A champion is not defined by their wins but how they recover when they fall

A champion isn't about how much they win, it's about how they recover from their downs.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins,but by how they can recover when they fall.

It's about waking up in the morning with everything around you looking gray. Gray sky, gray sun, gray city, gray people, gray thoughts. And the only way out is to have another drink. Then you feel better. Then the colors come back.

It's about waking up in the morning with everything around you looking grey. Grey sky, grey sun, grey city, grey people, grey thoughts. And the only way out is to have another drink. Then you feel better. Then the colours come back.

la pérdida de lo cotidiano se traduce en una suerte de ansiedad general asordinada en la que, buscando recuperar el tiempo que no pasamos juntos, nos hundimos.

It is the sort of suffering that cannot be done justice with words. I can say only this—that I suspect it is an anguish from which one never recovers. A walking death.

When man penetrates the mysteries of Nature, the "facts of Nature" become transparent symbols, revealing the "divine energies" and the "angelic" state which fallen man has lost, and which he may recover only for a moment, as when he is enraptured by the beauty of music or of a lovely face. At such moments man forgets his limited self, his individualistic dream, and participates in the cosmic dream, thus becoming freed from the prison of his own carnal soul.

Remain close, don't go far, hold hands and dance as the movements heal the scars

The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man.

A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

When we did so poorly at helping folks recover from drug addiction, we stepped back and said, "Duh, no wonder. None of us are heroine addicts.

On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, "We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.

People are poor not just because of their sins; they are poor because of our sins (and people are rich because of our sins). On the wall of New Jerusalem is a sign that reads, "We cannot fully recover until we help the society that made us sick recover.