Get Well Quotes - Page 2

• Let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes.

  Walt Whitman

  Encouragement, Soul, Leaves Of Grass

  Walt Whitman (2016). “Song of Myself: With a Complete Commentary”, p.172, University of Iowa Press

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• 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

  Motivational, Believe, Inspiration

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• Some people see scars, and it is wounding they remember. To me they are proof of the fact that there is healing.

  Linda Hogan

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Pain

  Linda Hogan (1997). “Solar Storms”, p.126, Simon and Schuster

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• We are all wounded. But wounds are necessary for his healing light to enter into our beings. Without wounds and failure and frustrations and defeats, there will be no opening for his brilliance to tickle in and invade our lives. Failures in life are courses with very high tuition fees, so I don't cut classes and miss my lessons: on humility, on patience, on hope, on asking others for help, on listening to God, on trying again and again and again.

  Bo Sanchez

  Healing, Humility, Cutting

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  It has been said, 'time heals all wounds.' I do not agree. The wounds remain. In time, the mind, protecting its sanity, covers them with scar tissue and the pain lessens. But it is never gone.

  Rose Kennedy

  Time, Pain, Healing

  Stanley Weintraub, Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, John McDonald Burke, Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward (1974). “Whistler”

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• If God sends us on strong paths, we are provided strong shoes.

  Corrie Ten Boom

  Being Strong, Shoes, Christian Inspirational

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• If I had my way I'd make health catching instead of disease.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Get Well Soon, Health, Disease

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• You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Recovery, Sick, Wells

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.148, Penguin

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• To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

  William Cowper

  Recovery, Keys, Views

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

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• Would you believe that I once entered a beauty contest? I must have been out of my mind. I not only came in last, I got 361 get-well cards.

  Phyllis Diller

  Believe, Mind, Cards

  "Phyllis Diller's File Of 53,000 Jokes". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. March 11, 2017.

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• In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

  Philip Neri

  Men, Giving, Sick

  St Philip Neri (2009). “The Maxims and Sayings of St Philip Neri”, p.60, St Athanasius Press

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• By the time a man gets well into his seventies his continued existence is a mere miracle.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Miracle, Existence

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• Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

  Anne Sexton

  Ties, Comfort, Body

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The natural healing force within each one of us is the greatest force in getting well.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Healing, Health

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

  Jodi Picoult

  Sick, Wells, Ifs

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

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• The art of being sick is not the same as the art of getting well.

  Tony Snow

  Art, Sick, Wells

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• Scars are but evidence of life.

  Marcia Lynn McClure

  Scar, Evidence

  Marcia Lynn McClure (2012). “The Whispered Kiss”, p.127, Distractions Ink

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• The first place we lose the battle is in our own thinking. If you think it is permanent then it's permanent. If you think you've reached your limits then you have. If you think you will never get well then you won't. You have to change your thinking. You need to see everything that's holding you back, every obstacle, every limitation as only temporary.

  Joel Osteen

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

  Allegra Kent

  Body, Muscles

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• The country can't get well if the people are sick. And the people are sick.

  Bill Maher

  Country, People, Sick

  Interview with Larry King on "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. September 14, 2010.

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• You must eliminate from your thoughts all doubt and uncertainty that you will get well; that you will succeed; that you will gain your point and get what you want. You may have some uncertainty as to methods, but you must have none as to ultimate results. You may not feel certain that you will succeed today, or next week, but you must feel certain that you will succeed sometime.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Next Week, Doubt, May

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• The patient, treated on the fashionable theory, sometimes gets well in spite of the medicine.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Medicine, Patient, Sometimes

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson”, p.107

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• Yes, you can be a dreamer and a doer too, if you will remove one word from your vocabulary: impossible.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, Dream, Procrastination

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• 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

  Friendship, Best Friend, Growing Up

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• 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

  Cards You're Dealt, Healthy, Mind

  "No kidding" by Chris Roberts, www.theguardian.com. April 8, 2005.

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