Quotes About Recovery

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

Life goes on but the scars remain.

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

We know that permanent sobriety can be attained only by a most revolutionary change in the life and outlook of the individual.

And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.

When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

Cutting pain was a different flavor of hurt. It made it easier not to think about having my body and my family and my life stolen, made it easier not to care... -Wintergirls

You get a concussion. It could take 30, 40 days until that starts to come to life where you're in agony. Ask any doctor.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

Yield and you need not break. Bent, you can straighten. Emptied, you can hold. Torn, you can mend.

Knowing that an economy is in decline is not enough. We must know why the economy is failing to achieve economic growth if we are to take steps to establish or reestablish it.

Once you can open yourself up to the idea that your defectiveness is not a fact, the healing process can begin to work.

However, when there is a major setback, the counterattack collapses. When this happens, they often fall apart and become very depressed.

Resilience is not what happens to you. It's how you react to, respond to, and recover from what happens to you.

narcissistic CEOs led firms to bounce back more successfully during the post-crisis recovery.42

Isolation concentrates every struggle. The longer we keep our heartaches tucked away in the dark, the more menacing they become. Pulling them into the light among trusted people who love you is, I swear, 50 percent of the recovery process.

chronic homelessness, most having experienced at least one year on the street. The marks of such homelessness go much deeper than can be solved solely by the acquisition of a home.

One week later, he lies in the hospital room, his breath moving deliberately in and out of his body. He feels as if he has been in this small room forever, that his home life is a blurry dream he cannot really remember. He moves his feet in circles, first the left, then the right. Their swelling has not stopped., and he knows that soon he will be unable to move them at all.

No," he said, "I have no sensation there." That was true, and it was the blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

blessing of scars: the deeper they were, the more you couldn't feel anything in them at all.

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

A broken man learned to savor what he could when he had the opportunity.

These include longer hospital stay; longer and more painful recovery; higher risk of infection, organ damage, adhesions, hemorrhage, embolism, and hysterectomy; more blood loss; higher chance of rehospitalization; higher chance of a complication with the next pregnancy; less initial contact with the baby; less success breastfeeding; higher risk of respiratory problems for the baby; and twice the risk of the most catastrophic complication of all: maternal death.51