Quotes About Recovery

Yes, one gets over things. But there are certain memories one can't bit on.

In love, the quickest is always the best cure.

I would say that I probably had an unhealthy love affair with drinking. I grew up as this kind of insecure kid, you know, kind of making my way. And drinking took all of that away.

Love is mental illness going in and mental illness coming out. In between, you do a lot of laundry.

The salutory effect of surviving a heart-attack: One felt that nothing mattered beyond kindness, good manners and humour

It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide attempt)

Total grief is like a minefield. No knowing when one will touch the tripwire.

I'd love to get ideas on overcoming jet lag.

in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!

We get inflamed, I guess, when people come back and try to make something of the case. It's like we heal and then the wound opens again. It was hard enough for me, but Allison lost her sister. It doesn't matter that it was in 1978.

Injury turns you from a giver to a taker. Taking up our resources, our time to care for you. That's why most weapons of war are designed to injure instead of kill. Wounded are more of a drain than the dead.

it's not failure that matters, but how you recover from it.

Although Sharon was found in the ruins of Wichita, there is no way of knowing where her story originally occurred.]

hyper-healing

We must face what we fear; that is the case of the core of the restoration of health.

If pride is what goes before a fall, the shame is what keeps you from getting up after one.

Do you want to get . . . sober? Solvent? Educated? Better? Do you want to get in shape? Over your past? Beyond your upbringing? Do you want to get stronger, healthier, happier? Would you like to leave Bethesda in the rearview mirror? Are you ready for a new day, a new way? Are you ready to get unstuck?

Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.

As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.

I asked for the music, then invited it to enter my body and find the broken and sore places and restore them

And my seven-year-old world humpty-dumptied, never to be put back together again.

You gave me the confidence and independence to fly. I want that back again, Carson. You taught me so much. You gave me the world. The problem is when you left, you took my world with you. And I want it back again. I want to live and not be this hollow shell of myself that I've been since you died.

Recognizing your illness is the first step in your recovery

How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?