Ann Aguirre Quotes

Wounds cannot be cured without searching.

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

In the beds which the piety of the public has prepared on every side, stricken men await the verdict of fate.

The history of a soldier's wound beguiles the pain of it.

A hospital ought to be a house of healing, not a monument to paperwork and bureaucracy.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

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.

Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated.

Human sickness is so severe that few can bear to look at it...but those who do will become well.

No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all.

Injuries make you stronger.

I had always been a quick healer.

In one way, I want to heal people.

I'm trying to stay focused - trying to open up again - and the music really did a lot of greatness for me and meeting a lot of people that really had concern and compassion for me.

I broke my back, I broke my ankle. I didn't cry then.

It's an emotional time for you when you get injured. You're going through so much. You have a lot of time to think to yourself.

You're sitting at home in a cast or a boot and it's tough, because all you've got is negative thoughts going through your head. Once you start to move and run a little bit, the confidence comes back, and then it's just a matter of time before you come back to be yourself.

There were a lot of hard times, and having to have a team of people help me out of the bed, having to use a bedpan is a really tough thing to swallow. But looking back, I'm proud of my scars and what myself and my Marines went through in Marjah.

All I treat at the hospital is trauma survivors.

It's nice not having to do that kind of stuff, getting surgeries and all that. It gives you an opportunity to get better. That's what the offseason's for.

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

I remember after the surgery, the next day, my mom was like, you know, 'Don't get your bandage dirty. Don't go outside and throw the ball.' But I came back inside with a football in my hand with a bloody bandage, but I knew I felt better. And I was just happy to play.

I've had more than 200 stitches taken in my head.

When you are injured you have to keep a positive mindset and keep moving forward.

I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing.