Quotes About Recovery

scar tissue was the strongest tissue in the human body.

We are all broken, we human creatures, and to pretend we're not is to inhibit healing.

There's something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon's knife.

Just as there are some wounds the greatest physicians cannot heal, so there are wounds of the soul that no human being can heal.

To heal would be to open the wound,examine it and forgive

Anna Kelly was sitting beside Emmet's bed. She wore a white cardigan over a pale blue dress. Her blonde hair, like Clio's, was shiny and the colour of corn. Stevie hadn't realised that she was such an attractive little thing. 'Well, well. Lucky Emmet. His own little Florence Nightingale,' he said admiringly.

Being strong, bracing yourself against hurt, can get in the way of actual healing; the real work.

addictive behavior is often a search for safety rather than an attempt to rebel or a selfish turn inward

if punishment worked to fight addiction, the condition itself couldn't exist.

addiction is the psychiatric disorder with the highest odds of recovery, not

While, like anything else that is learned, addiction may get more engrained with time, people actually have increased odds of recovery as they age, not reduced chances.

And she knew nothing whatever of what all too recently he had gone through, his fall in the Calle Nicaragua, his aplomb, coolness, even bravery there—the Burke's Irish whiskey! What a world.

If you stumble, you get back up. If you fall off the wagon, you have the next go at it. And then the next. And the next. And the next.

When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.

If you lose money in business, you can still cover up the loss. If you lose time, the only thing you have by your side is wreckage.

I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost.

When setbacks arise - and they will from time to time - regroup, recharge, refocus and refine.

Use the ruins of your failure to build a bridge to success.

Emotional pain, physical damage, financial weakness are the reasons to stop for a while and not forever.

When you are sorrowful, look again.

Before an affliction is digested, consolation ever comes too soon; and after it is digested, it comes too late.

I have become a pupil of the AA movement rather than the teacher.

Injuries are our best teachers.