Don't overestimate your emotions because emotional injuries can disturb you, but it can not defeat you.

— Amit Kalantri

Don't worry, Sean. You're still hot even in the hospital gown," Sandra said." Don't lie out of pity, Sandy. No one can look hot in these," Flora scolded. A gleam came to life in her hazel eyes. "Wait, are these the type that opens in the back? In that case would you get up and close the blinds over there for us?

— rainbowbrook

Emotionally, I was just a mess. But it’s such a long recovery period that you have to come to terms with it. You can’t cry the whole time until you get back on the field.

— Michael Sokolove

Enjoy without injury, live without loss.

— Amit Kalantri

Everyone born is on the field of life’s game, but not everyone does wear the jersey of vision! Some people are fair players and others are injury causers; you joke with the latter, and they hit you down in pain and blood stains!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Everything is temporary, almost like a passing phase, some laughter Some pain. What we would do, If we had the chance to explore What we had taken for Granted the very day before, Some would say I'm selfish, To hold a little sadness in my eyes, But they don't feel the sorrow When I can't do, all that helps me feel alive. I can express my emotions, but I can't run wild and free, My mind and soul would handle it but hell upon my hip, ankle and knees, This disorder came about, as a friendship said its last goodbyes, Soon this is what I got given for all the years I stood by? I finally stand still to question it, life it is in fact? What the fuck is the purpose of it all if you get stabbed in the back? And after the anger fills the air, the regret takes it places, I never wanted to be that girl, Horrid, sad and faded... So I took with a grain of salt, my new-found reality, I am not of my pain, the disability doesn't define me. I find away to adjust, also with the absence of my friend, I trust the choices I make, allow my heart to mend. I pick up the pieces retrain my leg, I find where I left off And I start all over again, You see what happens... When a warrior gets tested; They grow from the ashes Powerful and invested. So I thank all this heartache, As I put it to a rest, I move forward with my life And I'll build a damn good nest.

— Nikki Rowe

Every tree in the forest has a story to tell. Some of them were burnt, but they endured the fire and got revived; some of them were cut, their barks injured, some people pick up their leaves to make medicines for their sicknesses, birds used their leaves to make their nests, etc. Upon all these, the tree is still tree!

— Israelmore Ayivor

Forgiveness is not something you do for someone else; it's something you do for yourself. To forgive is not to condone, it is to refuse to continue feeling bad about an injury.

— Jim Beaver

Healing restores to wholeness that which has been injured or fragmented.

— Sharon Weil

I am facing a challenge, I am not facing defeat. Remember this.

— Nikki Rowe