Quotes About Recovery

He unwittingly takes a false step and plunges into the abyss.

Drugs and alcohol were ruling my life. I made a lot of bad decisions while I was drinking alcohol. The first thing I stopped was cigarettes and tobacco.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

I was 11 when I was molested. It was like a nuclear explosion going off in my life, destroying everything.

I think I ran so hard and so fast, in a lot of ways, from my life and I kind of took a fall. It was like - what do they call it? - post-traumatic stress syndrome.

I was completely nuts for most of my life.

It's just after I walked away from my addictions and the things that I struggled with, that's when I chose Jesus Christ and now he helps me and guides me through the rest of my life.

You can successfully take a jab at your ex without having everyone criticize you for it.

If my life were a song the title would be 'The Comeback Kid.'

I failed at the biggest things there are in life. I failed in my health, I failed in my marriage, I failed in everything, and I've picked myself up and gone on.

Nobody goes through life without having their heart broken and one day you'll wake up and it'll be okay.

Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

It is like a piece of my soul had been lost, empty, and it is now filled with the light of a million stars.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.

Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.

I have emerged from the tunnel of grief into the light. Life is better. Not the same, but good and getting better all the time.

Maybe you think you can wake up 50 percent, just enough to get beyond the "crazy" stage but not all the way to "wisdom." However, it's not the message of the Buddha or the intention of Buddhism to provide a partial recovery from confusion. The message of the Buddha is that you're awake now and that you can, if you apply yourself, realize it.

The bullet hole opened wide and my heart rolled out of my rib cage and down into a flower bed.

It shattered something inside me that hadn't been broken before.

Divorce shreds the muscles of our hearts so that they will hardly beat without a struggle.

I lie there and wait, and remind myself over and over that it doesn't last forever. That there will be another day and after that, yet another day. One of those days, I'll get up and eat breakfast and feel okay.

Do not think about guys who have broken your heart six ways. It is mentally deranged to chase after heartbreak.

He asked about Dad and about Gran- as if talking about something could make it better. As if wounds needed attention.