Nicolas Sarkozy Quotes

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.

While the sick man has life, there is hope.

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.

Luckily I'm a quick healer.

I have a strong constitution.

My other bodily ailments have become mere matters of history.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

I'm happy to have had everything healed. We're fine.

You are not just about death and disease.

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.

Whenever I am unwell, I come back because of the prayers of my fans.

I have always been blessed with an enormous amount of energy. And so I didn't take care of my health at all.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

I know for a fact that sickness is easier, but health is more interesting.

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.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

I have learned never to underestimate the capacity of the human mind and body to regenerate - even when prospects seem most wretched. The life force may be the least understood force on earth.

...children have the resilience to outlive their sufferings, if given a chance.

The most precious resource for businesspeople is not their time. It's their energy. Manage it well.

I was cured all right.

You haven't been through one thing that God cannot heal you from.

Recovering from suffering is not like recovering from a disease. Many people don’t come out healed; they come out different. They crash through the logic of individual utility and behave paradoxically. Instead of recoiling from the sorts of loving commitments that almost always involve suffering, they throw themselves more deeply into them. Even while experiencing the worst and most lacerating consequences, some people double down on vulnerability. They hurl themselves deeper and gratefully into their art, loved ones and commitments.

An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.