Quotes About Recovery

But now you can't find me or reach me or hurt me ever again and once I tell the words I am going to kick you off my porch and learn to breathe again.

Disconnecting from my young self was a way of putting distance between the tragedy of those years and a future that seemed inaccessible.

It gradually dawned on him that he needed time and an ocean of love to heal the wounds of the past.

People who are sick, or who have been sick, or have come close to death have a lot to say - and they want you to hear it.

When I got out of prison, I was basically no longer human,' Miriam says.

Was this my afternoon away from the funny farm where I lived during the rest of the week?

Self-abuse is shockingly common, especially among people who have been conditioned to believe that they are to blame when things go wrong.

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When you're young and healthy you can recover quickly from a defeat. But betrayal is different—it paralyzes you.

Depression is such a crippling, debilitating illness.

My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.

The reasoning, as far as I could see, being that the young would recover and have work left in them, while the old were not worth saving.

When you're fully healed," she said sternly, then spoiled it with a silvery, velvet-coated laugh. "Oh, Lucivar, the dragons who live on the Fyreborn Islands are going to love you. You not only have wings, you're big enough to wave whomp.

I can heal the scars on your body, but I can't heal the scars of the soul. Not yours, not mine. You have to learn to live with them. You have to choose to live beyond them.

I went mad, a god hurt me, I fell.

A funny thing happens when the world turns, as it turned for us on the night we burned the British embassy down. You wake up the next morning and carry on.

After three more years, she was released from the asylum, rattling with pills – a much reduced, soon to be terminally ill woman who was invisible, on the street, to those who passed her by.

Pen-bereavement is a serious matter.

She says everyone around her drank or took drugs. She fell into the same pattern and gradually succumbed to despair.

issue hit home—when their own children started using intravenous drugs and got infected.

says addicts are rendered comatose for the first two weeks, pumped full of sedatives to keep them quiet while they undergo detox,

His sisters were not happy, laughing girls. Dorie watched the world with wary suspicion and had not uttered a sound in the four months since he'd recovered them. And Cassie carried a knife strapped to her thigh. A child of fourteen. Those facts alone spoke volumes.

Wounding, at best, only temporarily releases pain.

Wounded people may not get over their wounds easily or quickly. Wounds can be hard just to brush aside because the wounder says, "I'm sorry.