William Wordsworth Quotes

As little flowers, which the chill of night has bent and huddled, when the white sun strikes, grow straight and open fully on their stems, so did I, too, with my exhausted force.

For great as the powers of destruction may be, greater still, are the powers of healing.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

We came into a broken world. And we're the cleanup crew.

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

I don't get tired. I get beat up. You keep chopping on a tree, you need to give the tree some rest so the chlorophyll will fill back up and the tree gets its energy back.

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.

And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table.

Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.

There are resurrection themes in every society that has ever been studied, and it is because not just only do we fantasize about the possibility of resurrection and recovery, but it actually happens. And it happens a lot.

Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.

Society mends its wounds. And that's invariably true in all the tragedies, in the comedies as well. And certainly in the histories.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

I am starting to look like and perform like the Lou that I used to be.

The last couple of years have been a write-off, though I'm beginning to feel like a person now. My energy is coming back.

I'd like very much to make a confident picture. I would like to be as good as nature, which, with a shower, produces flowers and grass to cover the destruction. But we are surrounded by human fragmentation, by pessimism, and it is difficult to talk of other things.

We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

When something is so damaged or something is just not right, you can't fix it in a moment. The only thing is time.

I just hope that more people will ignore the fatalism of the argument that we are beyond repair. We are not beyond repair. We are never beyond repair.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

My illness is now in remission, and on a day-to-day basis, I truly feel amazing. I wake up with such incredible energy, which I never had before my illness, and I really feel so in tune with my body.

You have to get your rest and have your recovery time.