Quotes About Recovery

There were times in my early 20s where I dealt with some anxiety and depression issues. At that time, it just feels like you're under the water, and you can't get out.

Snooker lifted me out of depression.

I went through an extreme depression.

Post-partum depression is real and while I was told about it, I wasn't sure what to expect.

There is a quality of selfishness that is associated with an individual when they are in the depths of addiction.

From the day I got out, it was an evolutionary process. I was sick for, like, two years - that's the best way I can describe what was happening with me. But as time went by and I finished law school, it became clear to me that I needed a platform.

Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life.

Missourians know all too well the destruction tornadoes can bring to schools and communities.

Drugs and alcohol can be so destructive.

I first heard Pantera after getting out of a detention center as a kid.

I was determined to get back to my life. I had to relearn how to do everything. I had to learn how to talk, eat, move my arms.

I was determined to return to Bombay on two legs and not on crutches and dance again.

In college, a loss is pretty devastating. That feeling kind of goes away in an 82-game season. You hate to lose, but you also have a lot more games to make up for it.

Anyone who's ever had a loved one go through addiction will know just how devastating it can be and how tough it is for those around them, as much as it is for the addict.

Before I gave birth to Hope, I had a miscarriage. The pain was so enormous, I had to write myself out of it. I kept a diary and did not feel entirely complete until Hope was born.

If you look at 2009, why did the recovery happen? Recovery happened because somebody in the world's largest economy opened the tap: the U.S., followed by Europe and now Japan.

When I was a little girl, whenever I would get sick, my mom would go and get stacks and stacks of VHS tapes from Blockbuster.

I was a target. There was a guy who took a paint roller extension pole and blasted me in the knee a few times. I had to have surgery to relieve the pain when I got out of prison.

Each time I left prison, I left with the resolve to get my life together, to get a job, to get back on track. And each time, the task became more and more and more daunting.

My scars from abuse made me insecure. And so I had to cover up my scars with tattoos.

Injury taught me I need to learn how to face challenges.

We have lost certainty and predictability in the regulatory and tax climate in America, and this is why we're recovering so slowly.

The clearest way to cut some of this fiscal drag would be to extend the current payroll tax holiday and increase it - as proposed by President Barack Obama. This would cut the fiscal drag by almost half.

The road to recovery is to stimulate small business and innovation by reducing taxation, regulation, and litigation.