Quotes About Recovery

How much would you pay to avoid a second Depression?

We beat the Great Depression without lotteries and legalized gambling

You believe the sun will reappear after a stormy day, so why is it so hard to believe, you'll experience happiness after every heartache.

The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness.

Happiness is a healed heart.

Without healing, there is no happiness.

Depression is not an absence of happiness, it's a feeling that happiness may never return.

In the face of all that has happened, it feels good, really good, to just breathe for a moment.

The person who takes medicine must recover twice, once from the disease and once from the medicine.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

The human body heals itself and nutrition provides the resources to accomplish the task.

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task of living wisely.

The natural force within each of us is that greatest healer of all.

Patients should have rest, food, fresh air, and exercise - the quadrangle of health.

I wouldn't have been a health care nut if it hadn't been for my paralysis, so something good came from this.

My main goal is to stay healthy because when you're injured you realise how lucky you are to have your health.

There is something cathartic about having absolute loss articulated.

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 more severe the pain or illness, the more severe will be the necessary changes. These may involve breaking bad habits, or acquiring some new and better ones.

I'm as obsessive with health as I was with destruction.