Quotes About Recovery

It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things.

And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover.

Hay épocas en que uno siente que ha caído a pedazos y a la vez se ve a sí mismo en mitad de la carretera estudiando las piezas sueltas, preguntándose si será capaz de montarlas otra vez y qué especie de artefaco saldrá.

In the seventeenth century a dissociation of sensibility set in, from which we have never recovered; and this dissociation, as is natural, was aggravated by the influence of the two most powerful poets of the century, Milton and Dryden.

For what you call restoration to health Is only incubation of another malady.

If there was one thing from which people never recovered, it was childhood. If there was one tie that could never truly be broken, for good or for ill, it was to family.

It's harder to heal than it is to kill.

Wenna followed us out. You've done him some good, Clary, I have to say! He's got color in his cheeks, and he's stepping along as if he was sixty again, she told Goodwin as she walked us to the gate. You'll come back? Of course, Goodwin said. But thank Cooper for his improved spirits. Once he'd insulted her a few times, he was in the pink.

It is the ability to perform for days or weeks like balanced and cheerful automata, when some substrata, something upon which our codes or our hopes had firmly rested has given way. Men who lose their wives or their God are quite capable of behaving in this manner, for an indefinite season. After which the collapse is brilliant and total.

Like the child she was, fallen hard as she had, she was as yet too stunned to lament.

Wounded healers need bandages themselves. You can't save anyone if you bleed to death.

You want to forget your pain. I mean to tell you that doing that will only cause you more hurt. - Khai

Whoever said that a straightened hand was more dramatic than a healed heart anyway? -the character Dr. Paul Thompson from Blessed Child

Then everybody wept, Or sat, too exhausted to weep, Or lay, too hurt to weep.

Day by day his sister grew Paler with the wound She could not see or touch or feel, as I dressed it Each day with her blue Breton jacket. - from Life After Death

I'll be all right in a minute, I'm just bewildered - by life...

on grief) And you do come out of it, that's true. After a year, after five. But you don't come out of it like a train coming out of a tunnel, bursting through the downs into sunshine and that swift, rattling descent to the Channel; you come out of it as a gull comes out of an oil-slick. You are tarred and feathered for life.

They would have known that life has ups and downs, and we must go on, and even if the heart can't mend completely, there will be joy in other places, somewhere further down the road. I understood that now.

But sometimes, a flicker of light can emerge from the darkest, most unexpected tragedies.

How do you recover from something like that? How do you walk into your daughter's life for the first time and make her love you? Was that even possible?

You know what I do to forget the past? I drink my own special concoction. I call it Milk of Amnesia.

Yang terburuk adalah bangun di rumah sakit. Orangtuamu di sana menangis. Atau ibumu meneriaki para dokter dan perawat. Kau kembali dengan hancur. Kau merusak hari setiap orang.

Kita semua juga menjadi lebih baik, kau tahu. Aku menyembuhkanmu. Kau menyembuhkanku.

Courage consists of the power of self-recovery.