Quotes About Recovery

Russia's Vladimir Putin appeared in public for the first time after a mysterious 10-day absence. Putin said it took him that long to recover from the finale of 'The Bachelor.'

I have been sober for the longest time. Oh, it's over a decade now. No joke.

If you ask me if I think I will be sober in 24 hours time I can say yes, but in two years I can't tell you. I could be dead.

I was on as many as seven medications at one time, doctors didn't know what to do with me.

I was never in a mental institution for a long time. I was in psych wards.

Yes, a dark time passed over this land, but now there is something like light.

Sometimes when you're fighting, fighting, fighting, the mind needs some time off and you regroup and get back to normal.

The world is full of broken people. Splints, casts, miracle drugs, and time can't mend fractured hearts, wounded hearts, wounded minds, torn spirits.

only grieving can heal grief; the passage of time will lessen the acuteness, but time alone, without the direct experience of grief, will not heal it.

But the loss of any friend takes a long time to heal.

Oh time...time, pass so that I forget! Oh time, Great Healer, pass over me and let me forget.

Jail was a result of me not taking time for myself. So I was forced to take some time for myself.

It took me a very long time to heal. It was a shock to my system.

This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.

For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them.

You have an utterly sincere glance when you look around after you are shipwrecked. You weep a long time on an island when you realize what's happened to you.

I had a little bit of a vocal strain at a certain period of time that made me lay off the singing, and while I was lying off the singing, I was pursuing the acting.

I tell myself time heals. It really does.

We spend too much time hiding illness.

For every wound, the ointment of time.

Sure. My ego's had enough time to recover a modicum of dignity. Let's make sure we crush it again before I mistake myself for a god. -Acheron

I feel really good when I haven't felt good for a long time and then suddenly I feel okay again. Nothing feels better than this.

Did it [cocaine] for about eight years. Not a terribly long time to be an addict I guess, but it is longer than World War II.

Give yourself time to get better.