“Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
May Sarton
more infosource: Journal of a Solitude (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 1973), 34.
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category: pain, recovery, survival
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“I seem slowly to be getting over what I imagined was the matter with me.”
Robert Frost
more infosource: February 23, 1932 letter to Louis Untermeyer from Amherst, Massachusetts, in The Letters of Robert Frost to Louis Untermeyer (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963), 220.
category: imagination, recovery, sick
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“Always the purpose of treatment is only to restore nature’s balance against disease. There is no recovery unless it comes from the force and fiber of one’s own tissues. The physician’s role is to be the cornerman—stitch up the lacerations, apply the soothing balm, encourage the use of the fighter’s specific abilities, say all the right things—to encourage the flagging strength of the real combatant, the pummeled body. As doctors, we do our best when we remove the obstacles to healing and encourage organs and cells to use their own nature-given power to overcome.”
Sherwin B. Nuland
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