Quotes About Recovery

Healing, recovering, from a death is also a form of estrangement, a further loss.

And Matt's passion fueled Breanne's emotional recovery. Giddily soaking up her groom's repeated, ardent kisses, the usually restrained, ultra-cool sophisticate was feeling no pain, laughing and animated and uncaring that her exquisite Italian silk creation had been stained like a macchiato. ...she wore the espresso like a badge of honor-- even insisted more photos be taken with the damaged tray and the spattered gown.

This was the nadir, surely. They had no further to fall.

Can you hear me, Todd? There's an ambulance on its way." For a moment his eyes opened a little wider, and he seemed to be making an effort to concentrate on the face in front of him. "It's Maxine," she said. "Remember me?

She's in remarkably good shape for sitting underwater for almost fifty years

How to undo slavery's injury to the mental faculties–so many freed men continued to be enslaved by the horrors they'd endured.

La única forma de saber cuánto tiempo te has perdido en la oscuridad es que te saquen de ella.

She wondered where he escaped from, how bad it was, and how far he traveled before he put it behind him.

On visiting day, he told her he was okay but sad, it was difficult but he was hanging in there, when all he wanted to say was, Look at what they did to me, look at what they did to me.

Red-hot anger takes away a lot of the heartache.

Influenza. Remember, Elizabeth, I had it back in the spring? A lot of other people did, too. It wasn't too bad, although I do hate to be sick, but it's back now, with a vengeance.

the period following his admission;

We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly.

my daughter at about six years of age asked me the question, "Why do we speak of the good Lord?" Whereupon I said, "Some weeks ago, you were suffering from measles, and then the good Lord sent you full recovery." However, the little girl was not content; she retorted, "Well, but please, Daddy, do not forget: in the first place, he had sent me the measles.

In the past, nothing is irretrievably lost, but rather, on the contrary, everything is irrevocably stored and treasured

We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly. Psychologically

so the man who has suddenly been liberated from mental pressure can suffer damage to his moral and spiritual health. During

I said that each of us had to ask himself what irreplaceable losses he had suffered up to then. I speculated that for most of them these losses had really been few. Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society - all these were things that could be achieved again or restored.

Whoever was still alive had reason for hope. Health, family, happiness, professional abilities, fortune, position in society —all these were things that could be achieved again or restored. After all, we still had all our bones intact.

We had literally lost the ability to feel pleased and had to relearn it slowly. Psychologically, what was happening to the liberated prisoners could be called "depersonalization." Everything appeared unreal, unlikely, as in a dream.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

I rise from my worst disasters, I turn, I change.

In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.