There’s something comforting about quotes. It’s nice to know that people, since the beginning of time it seems, have experienced the deepest and most complex feelings, just like you. Not only have they experienced them, they’ve recovered. And that is our topic this week: RECOVERY

Courage consists in the power of self-recovery.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.” Joanne Kathleen Rowling “The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.” Allen Klein “The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. ” Marianne Williamson “Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.” Fulton J. Sheen “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 “Remember how often you have postponed minding your interest, and let slip those opportunities the gods have given you. It is now high time to consider what sort of world you are part of, and from what kind of governor of it you are descended; that you have a set period assigned you to act in, and unless you improve it to brighten and compose your thoughts, it will quickly run off with you, and be lost beyond recovery.” Marcus Aurelius “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 Marcus Aurelius