Quotes about Recovery
A wound won't heal if you keep touching it.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
I was just kind of sour with the sport. I didn't want anything to do with it. I went into a period of excessive partying and doing anything that wasn't figure skating, really. I went and built a house with my brother. I shut the whole world out and shut everything down.
- Scott Moir
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
- Euripides
A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger.
- George Eliot
Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin
- Terri Savelle Foy
The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.
- St. Thomas Aquinas
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbors.
- Henry David Thoreau
I had bad back injuries; two bulging discs and a broken fragment off a disc, all in my sciatic nerve.
- Alexander Volkanovski
The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
- Ed Koch
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.
- Viktor E. Frankl
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.
- Viktor E. Frankl
The body after long illness is languid, passive, receptive of sweetness, but too weak to contain it.
- Virginia Woolf