Quotes About Recovery

The recent past always presents itself as if destroyed by catastrophes.

In 1952, I had gone to England on a literary pilgrimage, but what I also saw, even at that distance from the blitz, were bombed-out ruins and an enervated society, while the continent was still, psychologically, in the grip of its recent atrocities.

My husband and I had recently been in a car accident, and I came out of that experience with more clarity about my career and the energy to continue to pursue it hard, no matter what the challenges.

I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

A government can't cut its way out of a recession any more than you can dig yourself out of a hole.

We have not recovered all that we lost in the Bush recession. That's why we need to continue to move forward.

The job market improved impressively under Barack Obama's presidency after the Great Recession, when millions of jobs vanished seemingly overnight.

I think poverty is the biggest challenge for Los Angeles and for many of our cities that have come back from the recession.

I'm astonished at how quickly the Great Recession came and went.

Aggressive government spending during the Great Recession was absolutely necessary.

Whenever there is a recession, the first sector that bounces back is technology services.

I want to reclaim who I am.

When I got the sack from Huddersfield it hurt me badly. I became reclusive, I never went to a match, don't think I left the house for five months.

I get messages from people telling me all the time through Twitter or Instagram about how my path has inspired their path. It's good for them, for people who have a certain amount of mental problems, suffering from depression or anxiety, being able to have someone who recognises them and helps them.

I saw a picture of myself when I came out of the hospital. I didn't recognize myself.

I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.

At one point, I even thought, 'Oh, I'll take diet pills.' I tried it for one day, and I thought my heart was going to explode. It's awful, and I would never, ever recommend it.

CBT really helped me, and I would recommend it to anyone.

I had to have shoulder reconstruction.

Ten days after my 'one-step' reconstruction, I was on the beach with my daughter.

At 18, I finally came into a relationship with a record label. My family got back on its feet. I was happy.

We were so busy that right before we recorded the follow-up single to 'Lovin' Feelin' I had a nervous breakdown. I just folded. I had to stay in bed for a couple of months and rest.

'Hairdresser Blues' was written when I was deep in a ten-year depression that I escaped shortly after recording that album. I don't like that album.

Yes, I would say I had quite a rough time from 1992 to 1996. After the highs of the Eighties, work became slow from around 1987 to around 1997. I was running a small recording studio in Shepherd's Bush but wasn't making a great deal from it.