Quotes About Recovery

Trust is the easiest thing in the world to lose, and the hardest thing in the world to get back.

Ultimately, there can be no complete healing until we have restored our primal trust in life.

My bulimia was my addiction. Hurting myself was my addiction... The music is what saved me. That's the only thing I can trust.

Im okay Im okay now. But you really need to listen to me 'cause im telling you the truth I mean this im okay Trust me... Im not okay ...Well okay im not okay. Im not o-f cking-kay

My heart and my trust were in the process of collapsing. And that collapse created a vacuum in my chest.

The difference between the truth and a lie is that both of them can hurt, but only one will take the time to heal you afterward.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

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There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away.

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

Once you start laughing, you start healing.

Sometimes limbs must be re-broken to set properly, her heart too needed to shatter anew before it could truly heal.

I see you are well," she said. "No lingering ill effects from your prolonged soaking at Château Vaudrieu." "I'm a little groggy but otherwise fine." She nodded, seeming not at all worried. But that she was here, waiting for him to wake up, was evidence enough of her concern.

I wonder now how we got by when you weren't here." "I have no doubt the devastation was widespread, the suffering universal." "Indeed, it was the Dark Ages in the annals of Mrs. Dawlish's house. Ignorance was thick on the ground, and unenlkghtenment befogged all the windows.

Saltwater gargles. Lemon and honey. A drop of ipecac on the tongue. Hot milk at bedtime.

One took slippery elm and let it lie in milk until it became soft. This applied to the burns enabled to sleep better at night.

I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

You know you're over it .... if you don't need to laugh it off and still have a smile on your face.

There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion.

It's so curious: one can resist tears and 'behave' very well in the hardest hours of grief. But then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips from a drawer... and everything collapses.

All she knows is that someone fell, and that everything beautiful began after.

Shame was one of those things that had to be excised like a cancer, but it was a hard thing to remove when it was wrapped around your heart.

personal torture instructor...I mean physical therapist.