Quotes About Recovery

Don't yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie)

That which doesn't kill you will just require many stitches. -Caillen

I was struggling with drugs, I had a lot on my plate, and you know, I was using unhealthy ways to kind of self-medicate and deal with a lot of heavy duty stuff in my life.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens.

There was three or four years of my life where I hated myself and you know, would have quite happily ended it.

After my marriage ended, I had an urge to skip that part of my life completely in terms of poetry, not publish anything at all about it.

One bad day could turn into a bad year if you're not careful. Or, a bad rest of your life if you're not careful. Because of one day!

Still when I lost her, I lost sight of any landmark that might have led me someplace happier, to some more populated or congenial life.

On my discharge, I had the challenge of putting my life back together but Vietnam stuck in the inner recesses of my mind.

We want the same effect as if someone's house burned here. We want to give them a normal life as soon as possible.

I'm working and it's great. Life's great. Believe me on that. So what if I had a stroke? I'm getting on with things.

She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.

life before the monster

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.

life's best balm - Forgetfulness!

No matter how well prepared you are in life, you're gonna fall down a hole, and if you can fix the frayed ends of things, then you're better off.

Stryker was a company that allowed me, when I had my knee replaced and I got the Stryker GetAroundKnee put in, to get my career back and get my life back.

I've definitely had times in my life where I've been depressed and not able to do anything at all.

There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.