Quotes About Recovery

Muggles was back.

Nothing can fix a broken heart except love. Love always repairs those fractures we get in our heart.

I'd clawed my way back to the land of the living. Because of Vero. She needed me.

turned out, a giant well of emptiness had always existed inside me. A void so deep and black and ugly, I wasn't just empty, I was hollowed out by the losses in my life. Until there were days I didn't dare go outside because I worried the wind would blow me away. The pills became my

And I take all that sadness back inside me, cleaning the floor, sweeping up the shredded bits of wax, because I don't want

The gift of gratitude, we say in AA. It took me a long time to find it, and I'm still not the best at remembering it, but every now and then, I almost understand.

when she'd feared they hadn't rescued a woman after all, but only a shell of one.

Thank you," I say, and I mean it. Ten days, ten months, ten years, you never know when the next craving is going to hit, and in those moments, a single connection can make all the difference.

What's it going to take for you to trust me?" "You're an addict. You really have to ask that?

Who has suffered? The families of the dead, no doubt. But a greater loss was inflicted on Pakistan because, as I said, we lost the pillars of our society.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

In the wake of my spiritual experience there came a vision of a society of alcoholics.

In short, we need to recover the courage we celebrate in our heroes, and in particular, the courage to tolerate, for the sake of a free society, a level of risk we hardly ever imagined in the past.

John Coltrane was an addict; Billie Holiday was an addict; Eugene O'Neill was an addict. What would America be without addicts and post-addicts who make such grand contributions to our society?

does a sick society get so used to its illness that it can't remember being well? what if the memory is too dangerous for the people who like things the way they are?

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

You have seen after Katrina just what failures there are in American Society.

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Life is warning you to get rid of an addiction every time you are emotionally uncomfortable in any way.

I have a spiritual advisor I call up, when I just feel lost. Lately, I've been talking to God. I developed this dialogue in rehab, this dialogue with God, and every day I talk to God.

For anyone going through a divorce or any other painful challenge, the first and most important recommendation I can make is to find some kind of spiritual and emotional support.

I was spiritually bankrupt, and when that happens, it's like a spiritual cancer afflicts you.

When people are facing a severe illness or a major surgery, that may be one of the most significant opportunities for spiritual transformation that they will encounter.

A heart's wound heals quicker than a soul's scratch.