Quotes and Sayings About Get Well
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In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.
-- Jean Toomer -
The Church is not a monastery for the isolation of perfect people. It is more like a hospital provided for those who wish to get well.
-- Jeffrey R. Holland -
You're getting well,' Samuel said. 'Some people think it's an insult to the glory of their sickness to get well. But the time poultice is no respecter of glories. Everyone gets well if he waits around.
-- John Steinbeck -
I played so bad, I got a get-well card from the IRS.
-- Johnny Miller -
I hated roses. I hated them for being so trite, so clichéd, a default, all-purpose flower that said I love you, I'm sorry, and get well soon. Give me peonies and tulips, orchids or gardenia. Those were flowers with character.
-- Justina Chen -
I will be very grateful that I get to go out and play a song and get well paid for it.
-- Kathy Valentine -
I don't believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.
-- Ken Venturi -
Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.
-- Linda Hogan -
It's important to get well-rounded right off the bat. A lot of experienced dancers can get pigeonholed into one thing. I've been hired for a lot of different gigs simply because I can do a lot of different things with different levels of dancers. And it's sad to me that some dancers don't do more.
-- Mandy Moore -
You take the cards you're dealt. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well
-- Margot Kidder -
I guess I came to terms with my demons. Or else I'd be in big trouble, wouldn't I? Horrifying as it was to crack up in the public eye, it made me look at myself and fix it. People were exploitative; that's human nature. I'll tell you, being pretty crazy while being chased by the National Enquirer is not good. The British tabloids were the worst. But you take the cards you're dealt, and I got better. I'm now ferociously healthy in body and mind. You couldn't pay me to go near a psychiatrist again. Stopping seeing them was my first step to getting well.
-- Margot Kidder -
Sickness disgusts us with death, and we wish to get well, which is a way of wishing to live. But weakness and suffering, with manifold bodily woes, soon discourage the invalid from trying to regain ground: he tires of those respites which are but snares, of that faltering strength, those ardors cut short, and that perpetual lying in wait for the next attack.
-- Marguerite Yourcenar -
Illness was a sort of occupation to me, and I was always sorry to get well.
-- Maria Edgeworth -
Christian living does not mean to be good but to become good; not to be well, but to get well; not being but becoming; nor rest but training. We are not yet, but we shall be. It has not yet happened, but it is the way. Not everything shines and sparkles as yet, but everything is getting better.
-- Martin Luther -
You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.
-- Matisyahu -
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
-- Maya Angelou -
It's really kind of overwhelming and staggering to me how many people I know that have mental illness and there's not one thing that works. You just have to go on your search. It's like a journey of, "How am I gonna get well?"
-- Maya Forbes -
When grandpa was ill and could've died, I would have swapped all my record sales so he could get well. He is the reason I am a singer. He was my best friend growing up.
-- Michael Buble -
He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.
-- Miguel de Cervantes -
On a personal note: I have contracted an outstanding case of breast cancer, from which I intend to recover. I don't need get-well cards, but I would like the beloved women readers to do something for me: Go. Get. The. Damn. Mammogram. Done.
-- Molly Ivins -
Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights.
-- Neil deGrasse Tyson -
The more serious the illness, the more important it is for you to fight back, mobilizing all your resources-spiritual, emotional, intellectual, physical.
-- Norman Cousins -
Time didn't heal, but it anesthetized. The human mind could only feel so much.
-- P. D. James -
I am convinced that nine out of every ten persons seeing a psychiatrist do not need one. They need someone who will love them with God's love...and they will get well.
-- Paul Tournier -
Our contradictions. We are in such a hurry to grow up, and then we long for our lost childhood. We make ourselves ill earning money, and then spend all our money on getting well again. We think so much about the future that we neglect the present, and thus experience neither the present nor the future. We live as if we were never going to die, and die as if we had never lived.
-- Paulo Coelho -
I haven't missed a game in two-and-a-half years. I go to the park as sick as a dog and, when I see my uniform hanging there, I get well right now. Then I see some of you guys (media) and I get sick again.
-- Pete Rose -
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The fact that your patient gets well does not prove that your diagnosis was correct.
-- Samuel James Meltzer -
A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.
-- Shana Alexander -
Writing isn't about making money, getting famous, getting dates, getting laid, or making friends. In the end, it's about enriching the lives of those who will read your work, and enriching your own life, as well. It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.
-- Stephen King
