Quotes About Recovery

FEAR stands for face everything and recover – Old AA saying

It's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

Nothing is ever lost, Sarah. Nothing that can't be found.

It was really amazing the number of hard hits from which a mind could recover.

There was a beautiful feeling of calm in my groin, a sense of peace so remarkable it was almost ecstasy——anyone who' suffered bad pain and then recovered will know what I'm talking about.

Dan thought of another AA aphorism: We're powerless over people, places, and things. Like most alkie nuggets, it was seventy percent true and thirty percent rah-rah bullshit.

Many already leaving Sobriety City on the Alcohol Express

The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinary lengths to which God has gone to realize His will.

Having a breakdown was like breaking a vase and then gluing it back together. You could never trust yourself to handle that vase again with any surety. You couldn't put a flower in it because flowers need water and water might dissolve the glue. Am I crazy, then?

My old resentments were mostly gone, but not entirely. Fright and loss leave a residue.

Time had passed, and time probably did heal all wounds, but God, some of them healed so slowly. And the difference between I have and I had was such a gulf.

Some nightmares never completely ended.

Writing's about getting up, getting well, and getting over. Getting happy, okay? Getting happy.

She's held onto her sobriety better than she held into her husband.

The road to recovery led through the Land of Pain, that was all.

We drank because we're drunks. We never get better. We get a daily reprieve based on our spiritual condition, and that's it.

There's no way you can prepare for a broken heart.

And then I noticed the dandelions.

If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop diggin

Making our worst decisions in life, can destroy us, but God is trying to Rebuild us

Time and sunshine healed a sore, but the process was slow, and new boils appeared if I didn't stay dry.

Time may heal all wounds, but confidence once shattered may never be fully restored.

Writing heals the quandaries of life.

I should be grateful to the knife that's curing me for being so sharp.