Quotes About Recovery

Wo ein Messer einmal tief ins Fleisch geschnitten hat, tut die Berührung durch eine Feder weh.

He gave her a quick hug. Hugging was new for them. Ever since he'd been the paramedic on call the night she was shot, he'd "taken a new interest in your survival," as he liked to put it.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

The reason 12-step programs can be so helpful is that, very often, empaths become addicted to their vampire partners.

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go. Sometimes the answer you need is to a question you don't know how to ask.

that the quickest relief will come in forgetting.

And anyway, how do you talk about losing everything?

I sit on a rock, watching her. She seems better, I think. But now and then I see her staring off into the distance with a blank expression on her face, and it worries me.

for the first time since the fire, my worries are gone. I feel a joy so strong it's almost painful—a knife's edge of joy.

What I couldn't see is that sometimes the healing is not in the forgetting but in the letting go.

be totaled; we can't afford a new one.

I try to forget the horror of what happened. Or—perhaps forget is the wrong word. How can I forget? And yet how can I move forward even a step without tamping down the despair I feel? When I close my eyes, I hear Maisie's cries and Mam's screams, smell the acrid smoke that must have started from that pile of newspapers, feel the heat of the fire on my skin, and heave upright on my pallet in the Schatzmans' parlor, soaked in a cold sweat.

You can't put a Band-Aid on every boo-boo you've made some just need time to heal...

Lose your balance for a moment and there you go, the world flings you off its spinning surface and its not so easy to scramble back on.

Unbearable pain that is expressed and acknowledged becomes bearable. But borderlines received no such responses in their childhood. Therefore, they are stuck in the past, trying to elicit what they needed as a child—validation of their unbearable pain.

Habíamos perdido nuestras capacidades físicas y morales de imaginar la libertad.

I wanted to be a doctor in sports medicine I was into sailing and all that sort of thing.

In some ways I'm still recovering from the trial. My health is not as good as it ought to be. I've gone back to practicing law and it seems to have taken a toll for whatever reason.

The 1953 coup was a catastrophe which slammed him [Mosaddegh] to floor, and from which Iran never fully recovered

The best crime fiction is not so much a search and rescue mission, but a recovery mission.

His physicians did not know it, but an attack of measles, such as the one from which the king had recovered a year earlier, serves to suppress the victim's resistance to tuberculosis.

recuperative and commemorative work.

long, slow and painful recuperation of Republican history and memory