Quotes About Recovery

Brain tumor survivors: don't become hopelessly discouraged if you are experiencing deficits. You in a war and you are bound to have a few battle wounds.

Youth is the first victim of war; the first fruit of peace.It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him.

Strategy is the art of making use of time and space. I am less concerned about the later than the former. Space we can recover, lost time never.

Wars damage the civilian society as much as they damage the enemy. Soldiers never get over it.

I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.

No country has suffered so much from the ruins of war while being at peace as the American.

Of course after the fight you want to make sure that you're okay and so is the other guy, it's a brotherhood in there, so you want to make sure everyone is okay after the war is over.

The ravages of drink are greater than those of war pestilence and famine combined.

You know, veterans come home and they may not be bipolar, but after they've been through a war with PTSD or a head injury, their families have a handful when they come home.

I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in real slow. I wanted it to hurt; wanted my outside to feel as bad as my inside. I sat there a long time watching my skin turn redder and redder... Finally my insides was as fiery as my skin. I liked the burn and hoped it took everything I'd been wishing for and turned it to ashes.

This little kid pointed at me and said, 'You look disgusting!' That was the first time I thought maybe I did. I decided I'd better start eating. I'm just thankful that I made it through with relatively few scars.

It's not your fault that you're slow. I'm sure it's hard to recover from being hit on the head with a silver spoon.

It's a good thing I have an oversize ego because if I didn't, you'd have destroyed it.

Coop introduced her as Ingrid, his massage therapist. "Piper Dove," she said. "I'm actually Mr. Smith's sobriety coach." "Well, God bless you," Marilyn said with a cheery smile. "There's no shame in admitting you need help, Mr. Smith.

Qué voy a hacer contigo? —Tengo una idea, pero a lo mejor no te gusta. —Dime. —¿Podríamos... no sé exactamente cuánto tiempo lleva recuperarse, pero... cuando lo hagas...? —¿Estás intentando decir que te gustaría repetir? —Sí. —Está bien, cariño. —Él sonrió, pero parecía preocupado—. Supongo que alguien que ha esperado tanto, tiene que recuperar el tiempo perdido.

People can forgive toxic parents, but they should do it at the conclusion—not at the beginning—of their emotional housecleaning. People need to get angry about what happened to them. They need to grieve over the fact that they never had the parental love they yearned for. They need to stop diminishing or discounting the damage that was done to them.

Abused children have a caldron of rage bubbling inside them. You can't be battered, humiliated, terrified, denigrated, and blamed for your own pain without getting angry. But a battered child has no way to release this anger. In adulthood, that anger has to find an outlet.

Remission is a word that signifies absolution. As Google will guess if you begin typing it, the term "remission of cancer" derives from and echoes "the remission of sins.

Grief can make a man careless

My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness.

The nurse broke

bruises, but as she rubbed at them—making a horrible

Have you lost your mind? Yep. And now I'm trying to get it back

You might have healed from the event, but you continue to bleed from the impact.