Quotes About Recovery

We need to lose less often in the fight against the bad guys. Or, at least, lose more gracefully and recover quickly.

The only lasting trauma is the one we suffer without positive change.

Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit.

They sayin Im back, I agree with that.

Shes crying now but shell laugh again.

Sickness comes on horseback but departs on foot.

I thought about the days i had handed over to a bottle..the nights i can't remember..the mornings i slept thru..all the time spent running from myself.

Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings.

If you keep picking a scab it will bleed and never heal. If you keep dragging the pain of the past up, it will never heal.

The art of living your life has a lot to do with getting over loss. The less the past haunts you, the better.

The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.

I began drinking alcohol at the age of thirteen and gave it up in my fifty sixth year; it was like going straight from puberty to a mid-life crisis.

Words that are saturated with lies or atrocity, do not easily resume life.

It was the lowest point of my life. I just kept thinking, 'What have I done to deserve this?' I didn't see the point in living.

If I, in some small way can help people to see that there is this huge, incredible life on the other side of addiction, you know, I will feel accomplished in my job.

I am living proof that if you catch prostate cancer early, it can be reduced to a temporary inconvenience, and you can go back to a normal life.

Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

I am a woman with chronic schizophrenia. I have spent hundreds of days in psychiatric hospitals. I could have ended up living most of my life on a back ward, but things turned out quite differently.

Healing is not an overnight process; it is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

It was like a miracle. I'm just feeling fabulous. What's incredible is someone has given your life back. I'm out in the garden today. This time last year I was looking out a window at a hospital.

The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.

I've kind of fashioned my life after a Slinky. Bend me in a million shapes, and eventually I'll spring back to what I originally was.

Sleep is an essential part of life-but more important, sleep is a gift.

Sid said that drugs weren't the problem, life was the problem. Drugs were the solution.