Quotes about Recovery

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

Wounding, at best, only temporarily releases pain.

Wounded people may not get over their wounds easily or quickly. Wounds can be hard just to brush aside because the wounder says, "I'm sorry.

We'll buy back our own harm with what is most dear to us.

The doctors told me' -- her voice sang on a confidential note-- 'that if any man alive had done the consistent drinking that I have, he would have been physically shattered, my dead, and in his grave--long in his grave.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye. We may not miss them, either, for one minute in a year, but if we should there is nothing to be done about it.

A man does not recover from such jolts-- he becomes a different person and, eventually, the new person finds new things to care about.

Receding from a grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.

What was the promise with the head sick?

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of the individual. There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still. The marks of suffering are more comparable to the loss of a finger, or of the sight of an eye.