Quotes About Recovery

Falling is easy. It's the landings that rip you up.

Department of Pain and the Processing Thereof

Never get stabbed- it makes everything awkward.

She strode across the room like she had meant to be here all along and busied herself in the kitchen for a moment, filling the electric kettle to make herself a hot chocolate. She dumped two packages into a mug and looked at the pile of chocolate dust she intended to consume. Was this supposed to make up for something, this dust? Was it supposed to repair whatever in her that had ripped in two? That was a lot to ask of a mug of cocoa dust.

She fought it. She recovered. Years helped her to reach the day when she could face her memories indifferently, then the day when she felt no necessity to face them. It was finished and of no concern to her any longer. She had won the battle against her memories. But one form of torture remained, untouched by the years, the torture of the word why?

Por su parte, él descubrió aquella noche que su reconquistado amor a la existencia no le era otorgado por haber sentido otra vez deseo de ella, sino que el deseo se suscitó luego de haber recuperado su mundo; el apego al valor y al sentido del mismo.

Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."b

I just had a stroke and it was pretty epic

That's the only way to cure an illness, right? Diagnose it." She

it's hard not to admit the possibility that I was just desperate for another shot, like an alcoholic rationalizing one last drink.

Still, as time went by, I couldn't help but fume (sometimes I'd actually picture myself with steam puffing out of my ears, as in a cartoon) at how Solyndra's failure stood to overshadow the Recovery Act's remarkable success in galvanizing the renewable energy sector.

was nice to know, as one executive assured us, that without the Recovery Act "the entire solar and wind industry in the U.S. would've probably been wiped out." That didn't stop me from wondering how long we could keep championing policies that paid long-term dividends but still somehow resulted in us getting clobbered over the head. —

In case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died -- an entire town destroyed. --on a Kansas tornado that killed 12 people

Nobody ever tells you the truth about loss. You don't only lose someone you love, you lose a part of yourself as well. Your heart. Your humanity.

Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

I was so depressed I stopped using hair spray for three weeks.

I would make one of Aunt June as Wonder Nurse, putting a new heart back inside a boy that had his own torn out.

I wondered if DSS had anything like Step 9, where you eventually have to apologize to all the kids you've screwed over.

Sophie's mother had to leave her dad, to get sober. She says as long as you're living with an addict, you're addicted.

She wondered if humiliation ever ran its natural course and peeled off, like a sunburn, or just kept blazing.

every step you take, as regards the druggie mother?

Even this far inland, New Jersey was still recovering from Hurricane Sandy, which in its time, a few years back, had been called the storm of the century. How foolish it seemed now to label anything "of the century." This one was still a teenager with an anger-management problem and a long future ahead.

today and I thought of those movies in which a town is wiped clean of its

Until I learned to be in love with my life again. Like a stroke victim retraining new parts of the brain to grasp lost skills, i have taught myself joy, over and over again.