Quotes About Recovery

If I put faith in medication, if I can smile a crooked smile, if I can talk on television, if I can walk an empty mile.

Finally, she'd found a group on Corellia that had helped her deal with her addiction, helped her realize why she felt so empty, so driven. It took me months of hard digging into myself, she said. Months to figure out why I wanted to hurt myself. I finally got it through my head that just because my mother hated and despised me for not being what she wanted me to be, I didn't have to hate myself. I didn't have to destroy myself in some twisted attempt to please her.

THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN WHO HAD ARRIVED AT the Northeast Center angry and belligerent, as inclined to take a swing at you as not. He began showing up in Bill's studio and started to paint. Bill watched him become an artist, and gradually he stopped being at the mercy of his rages. He got well enough to leave the center and move to a group home. This is what he said to Bill before he left: "What is art, anyway, except not pounding on walls.

Good things happen slowly, said a doctor in the ICU months ago, and bad things happen fast. Those were comforting words, and they comfort me today. Recovery is a long, slow process. There are good days and bad days for both of us.

This is the status of the Bible in modern life: it is a sublime answer, but we do not know the question any more. Unless we recover the question, there is no hope of understanding the Bible.

some half-million pounds of First World War scrap is still collected from French and Belgian fields each year.

It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.

There is a great deal of ruin in a nation.

You cannot buy time when it has been stolen from you.

Sometimes we get our hearts broken, only to have the right person come along to mend them

I will probably always cry myself to sleep, but knowing this, someday the tears won't be sad, or filled with regret. Maybe they will be joyful...

They came back To widows, To fatherless children, To screams, to sobbing. The men came back As little clay jars Full of sharp cinders.

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

Many people after a horrific few months or years of breakdown, will say: "I don't know how I'd ever have gotten well if I hadn't fallen ill".

Unemployment in America became, almost overnight, a thing of the past as the Federal government pumped billions of dollars into defense.

When you can laugh about something, you know it is healed.

Un pasado doloroso se cura prestando atención a las bendiciones del mismo.

Entering the room, Kylo Ren moved to join them. "Finding the flaw in your training methods won't help recover the droid." Although his mask concealed his facial expression, the rage simmering below his calm demeanor was almost palpable. "And yet, there are larger concerns," Hux insisted. It was evident from both Hux's tone and body language that he held no love for the newcomer. The feeling was mutual; neither took pains to hide his contempt.

Anytime you find another alcoholic standing in front of you," he had said, "looking you in the eye and talking about sobriety, consider that God is there, speaking through him or her to you. Or anytime you're sitting in a meeting, consider that God is there. For now, think of God as an acronym for 'Group of Drunks.

In many respects, recovery was, by nature, iconoclastic—a smashing of old and rigid ideas to allow for new life-giving perspectives.

A recovery old-timer had told me: "Time takes time. Don't be in any rush to get this thing. Let it filter in slow. What's the hurry?

God didn't get you sober to fuck you over.

There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses, right?

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.