Quotes About Recovery

I'm fine. I have bad dreams but I never saw Mister Duck again. I play video games. I got my thousand-yard stare. I carry a lot of scars. I like the way that sounds. I carry a lot of scars.

My present fortune is a compensation for my former misfortune.

I wish I could pick you up sometimes, turn you upside down, shake all the bad things out of your head, and put you back up the right way again.

Africa had a way of coming back and simply covering everything up again.

Alexander McCall Smith

Mr. J.L.B. Matekoni sighed. "People are always falling ill, Mma. That is the way we are." He paused. "I'm sorry, of course. It is not very pleasant being unwell, but it is always happening

For all evils there are two remedies—time and silence.

There are men who have suffered and who have not only gone on living, but even built a new fortune on the ruins of their former happiness. From the depths into which their enemies have plunged them, they have risen again with such vigor and glory that they have dominated their former conquerors and cast them down in their turn.

While she was still unconscious,

Tell me what you fear and I will tell you what has happened to you.

Why is it that when we lose something big, we begin to lose everything else along with it?

I guess you could say my mind was injured and that's why I didn't play.

In other words, Kat has a very high ACE Score of 5. And yet if you had met Kat at twenty or thirty, it's unlikely that you would have recognized the link between her childhood trauma and the many adult health—and life—hurdles that would later challenge her.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

Youth is a disease from which we all recover.

Old pain doesn't completely die. Time may soothe it, stoke over it until it looks like it has healed, but it never dies properly. It stays with you, it lives in the cracks of your soul, waiting for moments when you feel true pain

The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people seem to think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and sudden acquisition of wealth.

Don't give up! Your therapist author Dossie specializes in healing old wounds for trauma survivors and is happy to announce that many people find ways to deal with their history of violation, take care of themselves when painful memories show up, succeed in reclaiming ownership of their bodies, and enjoy a free and happy sexuality.

Drug abuse is a medical disease that requires medical professionals.

I always enjoy the day after a hangover. Each time it happens, it's my own little victory over the demon drink.

Within two years, white-tailed deer, wild turkeys, and wood ducks all started to make startling comebacks.

there are certain tragedies from which we never recover. We may eventually adjust to the sense of loss that pervades every waking hour of the day. We may accept the desperate sadness that colors all perception. We may even learn to live with the loss. But it doesn't mean we will ever fully cauterize the wound or shut away the pain in some steel-tight box and consider it vanquished.

There were moments when I felt seriously unhinged; when I was convinced that I would never, ever recover from what had happened, when it was absolutely clear to me that life from this point on would be constant agony ...

Another curious thing about the slow progression out of depression: you begin to crave routine.