Quotes About Recovery

My plant-based diet is the No. 1 reason that my diabetes was put into remission.

It's a performer's worst nightmare: to hurt yourself on stage and not be able to remove yourself from the stage.

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

I perform in opera houses in the centres of big cities. We live in 20 acres of forest. You need that space to recover and renew.

There's so much focus and interest about what happens during war, but very little about what happens when people return to homes and communities that have been destroyed. There's a renewal that happens, but it's a very difficult one.

India has always come out of crises renewed and on a higher growth path.

I'm a recovering jersey wearer who can't bear to get rid of the blaze-orange Knicks warmup top that makes me look like James Carville on a highway repair crew.

I was broken beyond repair.

There is a direct correlation between gardening and mental health, not just to maintain good mental health but to repair it as well - that's anything in the gamut from depression to serious brain damage, schizophrenia or autism.

If you constantly pound your muscles, they'll never have time to repair.

There's nothing, repeat, nothing to be ashamed of when you're going through a depression. If you get help, the chances of your licking it are really good. But, you have to get yourself onto a safe path.

Every time I break up with a guy, I play 'Kerosene' in my car on repeat.

There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family. And I think there's even a place for humor in that.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

Both hips have had a form of hip replacement.

I have had a partial kneecap replacement, an irritable bowel and three stents in my heart.

I've had 10 major operations. Four back surgeries. A hip replacement. A broken neck... But I consider myself lucky. I keep thinking after all these surgeries, my luck is going to run out.

Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.

I've had an ACL replaced in my left knee, ACL replaced in my right knee, 50 percent of my meniscus taken out of my right knee, lower back fusion, C-6, C-7 fused in my neck, C-5, C-4 disk replacement, C-4, C-3 fused. I have 26, 27 concussions, hundreds of stitches. I've been through the grinder.

I stopped drinking before I became a comic; one was a replacement for the other.

You get to a stage where you replay every scenario in your head, but you have to stop; otherwise, you drive yourself insane.

I'm glad that he's got all this behind him. And I'm pretty sure that there's a lot of people - and there are certain people that don't report the news accurate for their own personal fame and gain. And they know who they are.

What I've learned is that people have a desire to talk after the first line of reporters go away, and they are no longer speaking out of shock.

You know, we think about addiction as a morally reprehensible choice, but addicts act crazy because, in a way, that they are.