Quotes About Recovery

El tiempo cura las heridas. Y cuando las heridas resultaron menos dolorosas, el amor seguía allí, más fuerte todavía que antes.

The wounded are instruments, singing pain.

Drinking gave me a rush of confidence, and for a boy hounded by feelings of inadequacy, the buzz was a welcome relief. What was impossible to realize at the time was that I was shooting myself in the head in some strange time warp where the bullet takes many years to finally reach its target.

The recovery of passion starts with reappraising the value of the treasure, continues with letting the Great Rabbi hold us against His heart, and comes to fruition in a personal transformation of which we will not even be aware.

There's no use in denying it: this has been a bad week. I've started drinking my own urine.

I was beginning to suspect that the fire had destroyed something inside me. People can have load-bearing beams that give way too.

There are two extremes to avoid: being completely absorbed in your pain and being distracted by so many things that you stay far away from the wound you want to heal.

I am convinced that healing is often so difficult because we don't want to know the pain.

When the younger son was no longer considered a human being by the people around him, he felt the profundity of his isolation, the deepest loneliness one can experience. He was truly lost, and it was this complete lostness that brought him to his senses.

To be alone was something unpleasant. But I was at the same time conscious of a slight insanity in my mood, and seemed to foresee my recovery.

To the SICK the doctors wisely recommed a change of air and scenery

I have come to this hill to see the sun go down, to recover sanity and put myself again in relation with Nature.

As there is no wholesomer, so perhaps there are few stronger, sleeping potions than fatigue.

The more war destroys, the more it impoverishes, the greater is the postwar need. Indubitably. But need is not demand. Effective economic demand requires not merely need but corresponding purchasing power.

No one could think that the destruction of war was an economic advantage who began by thinking first of all of the people whose property was destroyed. Those

You must save what you can of your life; you musn't lose it all simply because you've lost a part.

She had had a real fright but had fallen back to earth. The odd thing was that in her fall her fear too had been dashed down and broken. It was gone.

It was the hushed daybreak of the Roman revelation in particular that he could usually best recover – the way that there above all, where the princes and popes had been before him, his divination of his faculty had gone to his head. He

Could one in those days feel anything with force, whether for pleasure or for pain, without feeling it as an immense little act or event of life, and as therefore taking place on a scene and in circumstances scarce at all to be separated from its own sense and impact?—so that to recover it is to recover the whole medium, the material pressure of things, and find it most marked for preservation as an aspect, even, distinguishably, a composition.

I had to grow foul with knowledge, realize the futility of everything; smash everything, grow desperate, then humble, then sponge myself off the slate, as it were, in order to recover my authenticity. I had to arrive at the brink and then take a leap in the dark.

They would fight out of a sense of duty and without hatred. That is why France is strong and why she will rise again and resume her place in the world. France has been conquered but not defeated.

I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.

for we all are dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending..

I am past scorching; not easily can'st thou scorch a scar.