Quotes About Recovery

I lost everything. When I was 28 years old, I lost my home, my job, my partner. I had many people die in my life. I felt like a total victim.

The most miraculous moments of my life were not when my daughter and son were born, but when the second or third Prozac pill shot down my throat and catapulted me into a world called sane.

I have spent much of my adult life flinching with pain as I tried to pull out the threads that bound the shadows of my past to me.

The thing that I'm most proud of in my life is that if a stranger came up to me and said, 'I can't stop drinking. I can't stop drinking. Can you help me?' I can say, 'Yes, I can help you.'

I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

When I came out in the public about my struggles with alcohol and drugs, that's probably the most vulnerable I have ever been in my entire life.

While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

There were definitely times I couldn't shower for a full week because I could barely stand, it felt like having all your life sucked out of you.

If I could tell you only one thing about my life, it would be this: When I was 7 years old, the mailman ran over my head.

Taub Therapy gives patients hope that they can recapture the life they had before suffering a stroke or TBI.

Life breaks us all but in the end we are stronger in the broken places.

Like so many addicts, I'd thought that if I could only sort out my life, I could then sort out my drinking. It was a revelation to see that it would be simpler the other way around

What do you do when your entire identity is destroyed in an instant? How do you cope when your whole life story turns out to bw wrong?

He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend: Eternity mourns that. 'Tis an ill cure For life's worst ills to have no time to feel them.

Rock bottom can be a solid foundation from which you can rebuild your life on.

I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.

A whole life can be shaped by an old trauma, remembered or not.

The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.

Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.

Apparently even the most awful tragedies, and the people they'd ruined, got a little stale after a while.

I unfortunately had a lot of medical procedures throughout my life, so I decided to paint all of my surgeries as a way to heal and as a way to grow.

Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life.

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.

Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.