Quotes About Recovery

One of the biggest gifts you can give the world is a healed life.

In my community there were two groups of people, There were the ones who did not die and the ones who came back to life.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

I've had so many injuries in my life that it's ridiculous.

There have been times in my life that I've had a ton of vices, and my demons have run amok for years and years and years.

I can't believe I survived, not only my life, but I am still playing football 'cause half of those eight or nine years I don't even remember.

I've been vegan since I got out of the hospital... It's another eye opener. It changed my life in a number of ways.

I think drugs and alcohol aren't a wrestling problem, it's a life problem, it's a people problem.

The doctors told me I'd be fine if I play only golf and tennis doubles for the rest of my life. But I dive. I dogsled. I trek. I guess I'll have surgery.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that makes you stare at your shoes for six hours.

The best thing you can learn from the worst times of your life is that it always gets better. It may take a month, a year, a decade, but it will get better if you leave yourself open to it.

I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.

I'd like my life back.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

Yes, life in Chechnya so far looks more like a life after a natural disaster.

No matter how much you screw up your life, you can fix it.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

Time heals many wounds but this loss becomes the defining sadness of your life.

I think my body went through a lot, went through the wringer. In terms of being inside the ring, getting hit, but also outside the ring, living a crazy life.