Quotes on Recovery

That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

The doctor knows that it is the prescription slip itself, even more than what is written on it, that is often the vital ingredient for enabling a patient to get rid of whatever is ailing him.

Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

My psychoanalysis has equipped you with the equivalent of a train ticket to recovery. It is now your decision whether or not you choose to make full use of it.

It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Your life is the fruit of your own doing. You have no one to blame but yourself.

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart: Your seeds shall live in my body, And the buds of your tomorrow shall blossom in my heart, And your fragrance shall be my breath, And together we shall rejoice through all the seasons.

He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.