Quotes About Recovery

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

In the West we have a disease-care system, and medicine recognizes thousands of ailments and myriad remedies. One Spirit Medicine, on the other hand, is a health-care system that identifies only one ailment and one cure. The ailment is alienation from our feelings, from our bodies, from the earth, and from Spirit. The cure is the experience of primeval Oneness with all, which restores inner harmony and facilitates recovery from all maladies, regardless of origin.

soul retrievals to recover parts of myself I had lost to trauma,

stay sober and help other alcoholics achieve sobriety

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

you have to cry until you break in order to make or utter a small song, to scream so much to fill the holes of absence that's what you did, what I did.

porque —oh viejo hermoso Sigmund Freud— la ciencia psicoanalítica se olvidó la llave en algún lado: abrir se abre pero ¿cómo cerrar la herida?

I only think of your body but I redo the body of my poem like someone who tries to cure her own wound.

Escribir un poema es reparar la herida fundamental, la desgarradura. Porque todos estamos heridos

Ah!- diceva poi tra sè don Abbondio, tornato a casa: - se la peste facesse sempre e per tutto le cose in questa maniera, sarebbe proprio peccato il dirne male; quasi quasi ce ne vorrebbe una, ogni generazione; e si potrebbe stare a patti d'averla; ma guarire, ve'. -

The arousing from sleep, after a recent misfortune, is a bitter moment; the mind at first habitually recurs to its previous tranquility, but is soon depressed by the thought of the contrast that awaits it.

Doctors sometimes joke that if patients get good medical care, they will recover from the flu in a week. Without help, they'll need seven days.

But she needed that time to decompress. To watch dumb television,

The only real test of character comes with the passing of the years and watching them perform - particularly when they are going through a bad spell or recovering from a setback. The ultimate judge of performance is Father Time.

The only place where you can regain lost paradises is in yourself

The morale of the Metropolitan Police Force had reached its lowest point during the Ripper murders of the previous year and had not yet recovered. The files of the Whitechapel murders had not been closed as the case was still ongoing, but nobody in London trusted the police to do their job.

4 major factors contribute to recovery: Relaxation, Control, Mastery Experiences, and Mental Detachment from work.

you can lose more than you thought possible and still grow back, stronger than anyone imagined.

Therapy takes us backward into a forgotten past, but this was not a safe and secure time, else we would not have emerged from it scarred by battle wounds and armoured in self-defense.

The wounds produced by the traumas of our life may heal, but the scars remain. We cannot return to our original state of innocence. There will always be some limitation upon our being.

Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after.

You learn not to mourn every little thing out here, or you'd never, ever stop grieving.

One day you'll hear that song you both liked on the radio and it won't make you cry. You'll wake up one morning and they won't be the first thing you think about, or the last thing you think about when you're falling asleep at night. Their face won't be the one you see any more when you close your eyes, or in a crowd when you're walking down a street. And when something makes you laugh, or cry, they won't be the person you want to share it with.

It eased the pain some when she thought about the way he'd treated her and hatred burned away the hurt.