Quotes About Recovery

Once I got my life sorted and started to get healthy, then I was able to focus on writing.

Post-workout smoothies are good for my body, an espresso martini is good for my soul.

I try to get 11 or 12 hours of sleep a night. It sounds excessive but that's really what I need.

At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal sediment which linked us with an age of poetic decorum, of a preoccupation with poetic sounds.

But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

When I arrived at Campbell on January 8, 2001, the company had lost half its market value in the prior year. They had to cut costs to the point where they were literally taking the chicken out of chicken noodle soup and the product was no longer competitive.

For two years, I was without a movie down South, and 'Department' proved a disaster; people don't even remember the film.

I have lived in countries that were coming out of conflict: Ireland, South Africa, the Czech republic. People there are overflowing with energy.

I was held up at gunpoint a month after I won Miss South Africa.

We can see loss as something missing, but that missing space can be filled with something else, and that creates healing.

I'll get seven hours sleep a night, but after breakfast, I'll have an hour just resting, to recover. In Spain they all have siestas, even businessmen.

If you keep picking at that scab on your heart, it won't heal.

The promise that life can go on, no matter how bad our losses. That it can be good again. And only Peeta can give me that.

In order to heal, you have to first be broken.

The heart aches in brokenness as daylight awakens the pain of knowing.

For a brokenhearted person memories are the vital parts of misery

Many people ask how to heal an aching heart. I ask in return how does one release the attachment to the aching?

I wish that people would stop destroying other people just because they were once destroyed.

Be just the balm you need to heal what ails you

Sometimes therapy takes years and years, and sometimes it can happen in one miraculous instant, a lifetime of doubt and self-hatred healed in a moment of astounding love.

And after that, I watched our house collapse in on itself and I spent some time lying in the rubble. Then I vanished completely. I wasn't here at all. Then you phoned.

There is no Love Failure but for the Broken Heart.

The best way to get OVER one is to get UNDER one

There are many wounded hearts here. Many! Some admit. Others - the stubborn ones, scribble poetry instead.