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Quotes About Recovery

The doctors tied me back together with twine... They tied me back together, but they didn't use double knots
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
when I wasn't stoned the only thing that helped me breathe was a book
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
scars may look stronger than unwounded skin, but they're not once broken, we're hurt again, or worse
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
She got too tired and went to sleep. Somehow, I dragged myself out of the dark and asked for help.
~ Laurie Halse Anderson
A good doctor, and in a special sense the psychologist, makes it quite deliberately, slightly harder for the patient to recover too easily. You do this to see if his psyche has any real bounce in it, for the secret of healing is in the patient and not the doctor.
~ Lawrence Durrell
I feel a sense of sadness and joy. Mostly sadness though about what I've experienced and sadness about what others have experienced in reference to the stroke.
~ Luther Vandross
I've been on Prozac for 12 years and I'm off it now. I know what it feels like to be excited and sad again. I haven't felt like this in 12 years; I'm like a giddy little kid.
~ Jonathan Davis
When you feel like you've had it up to here, and you're mad enough to scream, but you're sad enough to tear, that's rock bottom.
~ Eminem
Very sad, very upset, very glad I did not have to hear about this though Twitter. Probably going to be taking some time off it for a while.
~ Mara Wilson
When you can't remember why you're hurt, that's when you're healed.
~ Jane Fonda
The sad fact is that the vast majority of drunks stay drunks. There's a small minority of us who reach that fork in the road where one side says 'live' and the other says 'drink'.
~ John Larroquette
Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.
~ Sharon Olds
When you're going through a breakup, you should just let yourself feel everything so you can get over it as opposed to pretending everything's okay and dragging it out.
~ Hannah Simone
Everybody's damaged by something.
~ Emma Donoghue, Room
We are like Humpty Dumpty and all these king's horses and all these king's men cannot put us back together again
~ Gale Forman
Coming back to life' is perhaps the toughest battle we keep fighting forever. U never know when will ur life throw u down from Zenith to Nadir and then the journey restarts again...
~ Reetwika Banerjee
I am walking today because of chiropractic care I received years ago. I predict a great future for the science of chiropractic.
~ Jeane Dixon
Addiction is the primary way people escape the modern world. Unfortunately, it is destroying the modern world.
~ Christyl Rivers
She hoped he could move on one day and find happiness. He had the luxury to try. She hoped he would su
~ Kiersten Fay, Demon Possession
....All of the medicine hurts.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.
~ Bob Newhart
Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.
~ Kristin Hannah
Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.
~ Jean Giraudoux
Just breathing and smiling can make us very happy, because when we breathe consciously we recover ourselves completely and encounter life in the present moment.
~ Nhat Hanh