Recovering Quotes

“The place of true healing is a fierce place. It's a giant place. it's a place of monstrous beauty and endless dark and glimmering light.”
― Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar

“There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.”
― Stephen King, The Green Mile

“The day he came home from the hospital, he cried. I held him. I thought he would never stop.
I knew that a part of him would never be the same.
They cracked more than his ribs.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Recovery is a verb, not a noun. You have to be an active participant in order to continuously improve.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“A strong soul recovers from any suffering.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Recovery doesn't mean putting your life on hold. Recovery means holding on so you can live your best life.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Recovery is hard. Staying in your disorder is Hell.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“In the ashes of bitter tragedy, lie the seeds of astonishing rebirth.”
― Stewart Stafford

“Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I have never heard of an electromagnetically hypersensitive person recovering from the condition using shielding and Faraday cages, they just seem to become social lepers due to their increasing reactivity to the city environment and addicts to their shielded environment.”
― Steven Magee, Curing Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity

“You are the artist of your recovery, and you get to create and sculpt it any way you like.”
― Brittany Burgunder

“Smile, ‘cause life is gonna be what it is. There are brighter days ahead.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker

“Part of recovering your health is to break long-term toxic habits.”
― Steven Magee, Hypoxia, Mental Illness & Chronic Fatigue

“If letting a particularly potent person inside you could alter you irrevocably just to have seen or felt it, in which case how does one know when or how to refuse, how to recover.”
― Maggie Nelson

“Developing and recovering from Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity (EHS) was merely a bump in the radiation research road.”
― Steven Magee

“You can recovery from any injury.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“I recovered from every shock of life's despair because God was merciful enough to restore me .”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Life has to go on even when you don't want it to or when you feel unable to participate. The world doesn't stop turning for anyone.”
― Stewart Stafford

“His secretary, who acted as interpreter, was to say, later, that this glance of hatred was the first sign he had given of returning health.”
― Romain Gary, The Roots of Heaven

“The great remedy for recovering is repentance.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“My high altitude injured right hand is recovering. The hand itself is not injured, it is the injured nerve in the arm that is causing muscle wasting in the hand. It seems to be bruised. Injured nerves can take 1-2 years to recover. Given that it has shown an extensive recovery already, I expect it may fully recover in a year or so. The damaged nerve was an occupational hazard of being an altitude researcher!”
― Steven Magee, Toxic Altitude

“I'm okay with walking this path alone.”
― Mitta Xinindlu