Quotes About Recovery

...Her entire life has been devoted to healing the deepest, most invasive unseeable scar that one can ever have.

You can't build your life around hurts from the past" -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys

Life damages us, every one. We can't escape that damage.

The spiritual life becomes very simple when you're sick.

Rosie Grier was the springboard to the return of my life.

The greatest achievement of my life is enduring a disease that nearly killed me. I came out of it a better person. It's my one great accomplishment - more so than anything else I've done.

I actually got stabbed at my friend's bachelor party. In real life.

I just don't see me going through that rehab and coming back to pitch at this point in my life.

We learn to face the reality and the pain of our loss, to say good-bye to the dead loved one, to restore ourselves, and to reinvest in life once again.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

Something good was happening. My life was rising from the ashes, and the sight of it left me feeling something like hopeful.

Whenever I talk to survivors [of a domestic abuse relationship] who have lived through that and are on the other side and their whole perspective on life is a complete 180, I'm just so inspired.

I am better now. Word of honour: I am better now.

When you have been to the lowest part of your life, you have no choice but to sit back and just think about things. You just pay attention to so much more.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

Stop drinking was the best thing I've done in my entire life. I'm so happy I did that.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

He'll survive," he answered her. "Just as he's survived everything else in his life. But he'll never be the same.

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

Scars are but evidence of life and wounds we choose to allow the healing of. We may not make the same mistakes again.

When something tragic has happened, you can try to move on and put something tragic behind you, but it rarely works. It's in you when something like that happens. It's physically a part of your life.

Life for the unwell is discontinuous and unpredictable. Things just come out of nowhere. People try but mostly do a lousy job of taking care of you.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.