Quotes About Recovery

The worst blows, even when they're not intended to harm, are the ones we don't expect.

Actually, therapy isn't just about feeling better - it's about getting better, which usually involves feeling worse for a while.

Countries, like people, don't reboot to zero with a good shock; they just break and keep on breaking.

We need a Marshall Plan for the Earth.

Instead of helping people here, providing shelters here, bringing more generator power to the places that need them, getting the electric system up and running, they're encouraging people to leave instead.

The universal experience of living through a great shock is the feeling of being completely powerless: in the face of awesome forces, parents lose their ability to save their children, spouses are separated, homes - places of protection - become death traps. The best way to recover from helplessness turns out to be helping - having the right to be part of a communal recovery.

Los capitalistas del desastre comparten la misma incapacidad de distinguir entre destrucción y creación, entre dolor y recuperación.

I just sobbed myself out until I had too much of a headache to go on crying, and after that I was cold and stiff

Skin had hope, that's what skin does. Heals over the scarred place, makes a road.

what twists or rage greater than we could ever guess had savaged skylines, thousands of lives?

Those immune cells then make us feel awful. They create inflammation that triggers a scratchy feeling in the throat and leads to the production of a lot of mucus around the site of the infection. In order to recover from a cold, we have to wait not only for the immune system to wipe out the virus but also to calm itself down.

These scars are the least important. The worst scars remain inside.

Sabe lo mejor de los corazones rotos? Que sólo pueden romperse de verdad una vez. Lo demás son rasguños.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only break once. The rest is just scratches.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?' the librarian asked. I shook my head. 'They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches.

Aviso al doctor? -preguntó Sempere hijo. -Ya estoy mejor, gracias. Mucho mejor. -Pues tiene usted una manera de mejorar que pone los pelos de punta. Está usted gris.

Nothing is ever the same after a war.

After months of investigation, all the detective was able to recover was a broken wristwatch and the name of the man who had killed my father in the moat of Montjuïc Castle. His name was Fumero, Javier Fumero.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?... They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? the librarian asked. I shook my head. They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches.

Men are like that. They're like geraniums. When they look as if they're ready to be tossed into the bin they revive.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?" the librarian asked. I shook my head. "They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches.

Nunca subestimes el talento para olvidar que despiertan las guerras

I am not sick. I am broken. But I am happy to be alive.