Quotes About Recovery

I was exhausted but also for the first time in weeks I felt sleepiness, that rare, delicious liqueur, soaking into my body like blotter paper.

We stalled long enough for Maggot to undisgrace himself

as long as you're living with an addict, you're addicted.

Healing is dealing, and dealing is feeling, and feeling is healing.

my wallet at the mall. I was sure I would never ever see it again," he said. I bobbed my head up and down. "I know it. That's because of Finders keepers, losers weepers," I said. "Finders keepers, losers weepers is the rule. Right, Grampa?

It wasn't how far you fell, it was how high you bounced

My speed and strength were still good. Endurance likewise. Recovery times weren't what they once were, but a steady diet of liquid amino acids for the muscles, glucosamine for the joints, and Cognamine for the reflexes all seemed to help.

More than two decades later we know that American Science Fiction was not murdered. It had a whopper of a heart attack; it lay in the intensive care ward for quite a while. (and had like most indigents to somehow find its way to the hospital itself), but time and a little fresh air did wonders for the patient, who toddled out of the hospital in 1965 and has not yet returned…Over a thousand titles labeled "science fiction" have been published every year since 1978.

Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for ever, though it is perhaps that we have lost it is all its value.

some of their texts reappeared by sheer serendipity in modern times.

Time healed all wounds. Of course, as some wag had pointed out, it also wounds all heels.

The loss of memory isn't always the problem; sometimes—maybe even often—it's the solution.

If you drop a book into the toilet, you can fish it out, dry it off and read that book. But if you drop your Kindle in the toilet, you're pretty well done.

Sleep is the overlooked hero and the poor man's physician. Shakespeare

And maybe there had been enough tears, anyway. Which is not to say there wouldn't be more.

This upheaval came while the region was still recovering from the shock of the Islamic revolution in Iran, which radically reshaped the strategic map of the Middle East and Central Asia.

Countries that are defeated by their enemies often rebuild. But the countries that are destroyed from within—that's really the end of the line.

Getting plenty of sleep is the first step toward good dream recall.

Healing is to reoccupy those parts of ourselves abandoned to pain; to enter with mercy and awareness those areas withdrawn from in fear.

It is as though there is a splinter working its way to the surface, only this splinter is in your soul. And just as the skin wants a foreign object gone and pushes it out, the soul wants to be healthy and will not leave you in peace until you stop drenching it with the poisons of your feelings about the past.

But the truth is, when it comes to emotional pain—the pain that registers inside—the greatest damage is often the thing that continues to resonate when the feeling of the pain subsides. It is that message that the pain tells us about ourselves and about the meaning of our lives.

Facing the reality of that painful season when it felt as though you were in a sandstorm with no skin is the key to becoming whole now.

Soon Covenant was lost again; the complexities of the

Admonitions took over the ravaged playground of his mind.