Quotes by Get Well They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies…the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet. Aaron Koblin get-wellelephantstechnology In the midst of difficulty lies opportunity. Albert Einstein get-wellinspirationallying Perhaps our eyes need to be washed by our tears once in a while, so that we can see Life with a clearer view again. Alex Tan get-wellinspirationallife All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power. Allegra Kent musclesget-wellbody I have been asked so many times why I live a green life, why water conservation, why getting wells in places, why work with water organizations, why conserve water at home with double-flush toilets, why I tell my daughters, "Turn off the tap" so much. Sometimes I want to say, "I wish I knew the answer." My answer really is: I don't understand why everyone doesn't feel this way. Alysia Reiner get-welldaughterhome Your worst parts of your life, the things that you're ashamed of will become your strongest assets in a very quick amount of time. And the implication in that is your story is all that you have so passing it on to someone else who is struggling behind you coming up the ladder helps them. And so in the spirit of service in recovery we often talk about the power of our own stories to connect with other people and show them that they too can get well. I have found that not only is that true in the recovery world, but it is true in the social world in the social milieu in which I exist. Andrew Zimmern recoveryget-wellstruggle I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully. Anna Howard Shaw get-wellmorninghappiness Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. Anne Sexton get-welltiescomfort People will always work harder if they're getting well paid and if they're afraid of losing a job which they know will be hard to equal. As is well known, if you pay peanuts, you get monkeys. Armand Hammer get-wellhard-workjobs There are some wounds that one can heal only by deepening them and making them worse. Auguste de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam woundsget-wellheal We get sick because of something inside going wrong! We get well because of something inside going right! B. J. Palmer wellsget-wellsick I am here for my mother and all the Americans who are forced to spend time arguing with health insurance companies instead of focusing on getting well. I am here for the millions of lives that will be touched and in some cases, saved, by health insurance reform. I am here for the small businesses who are forced to choose between health care and hiring. I am here for the seniors who are unable to afford the prescriptions they need. Barack Obama seniorget-wellmother Getting well is not the only goal. Even more important is learning to live without fear, to be at peace with life and ultimately death. Bernie Siegel get-wellimportantgoal The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick. Bill Maher get-wellcountrypeople I learned a long time ago that minor surgery is when they do operation on someone else, not you. Bill Walton get-wellhealthlong We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again. Bo Sanchez get-wellhumilityhealing There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public. Booker T. Washington get-wellracemean They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is finite Cassandra Clare get-wellsadtime It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . . Charles Dickens recoveryget-wellflower Where there is a confluence of interests among nations, as, for example the swine flu or polio, you can get well functioning international institutions like the World Health Organization. And you can act. Climate change is different, because the science remains hypothetical and the potential costs staggering. Charles Krauthammer get-wellorganizationworld1234567»
