Quotes About Recovery

Well, they set spiders and snakes on me for a bit and blew me up and there was this really scary cake, but it's mostly all right now, I think. Except I don't ever want any more cake. Look!

Makepeace felt something in her chest wrench, and wondered if it was her heart breaking. She waited to see how that would feel. Perhaps hearts broke like eggs, and spilt, and stopped working. But all she felt was numb. 'Perhaps my heart already broke and never grew back.

She felt like an amputee, reaching out reflexively with an arm she no longer had.

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.

One of the most conspicuous modes of escape is alcoholism, which is now a national catastrophe.

Some of the most heart-breaking letters I receive are from people who tell how alcohol or drugs have ravaged their lives and destroyed their families.

There is hope for the alcoholic: God is able to deliver from this as well as any other addiction.

Unless the church quickly recovers the authoritative biblical message, we may witness the spectacle of millions of Christians going outside the institutional church to find spiritual food.

Grief which is not dealt with properly can cause us to lose our perspective on life.

I've crashed my car three times.

undo : if you're bleeding undo : if you're sweating undo : if you're crying, darling undo : undo

Leaving an abusive partner is a very difficult thing to do. It frequently feels like you are failing, or destroying your family, or not trying to work things out, or not giving your partner "a second chance." It hurts, and it's scary.

The Lost Weekend was the only book, out of five books, that I wrote sober, without stimulus or sedative.

The alternative to work isn't just idleness. To be ludic is not to be quaaludic. As much as I treasure the pleasure of torpor, it's never more rewarding than when it punctuates other pleasures and pastimes. Nor am I promoting the managed time-disciplined safety-valve called "leisure"; far from it. Leisure is nonwork for the sake of work. Leisure is the time spent recovering from work and in the frenzied but hopeless attempt to forget about work.

Isn't that how it always is? Just when you think you've lost something so precious, you can't ever recover from it . . . and then, if you keep your eyes and heart open, you find that the loss has made room for something else of great value, something you would never have found otherwise?

A loose feather can't be put back...but a broken wing can sometimes heal.

I had the chance to make every possible mistake and figure out a way to recover from it. Once you realize there is life after mistakes, you gain a self-confidence that never goes away.

Everybody, sooner or later, will have to go under the knife. Let's hope they make out as well as I did.

I called it the Hotel in the Quarry, because something inside me had been broken and crushed and carted away.

Hospital patients recovering from heart surgery have been found to need less pain medication when there are nature scenes at the foot of their beds; an image that includes water is even more effective than an image of an enclosed forest in reducing anxiety during the post-operative period.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

I'm not sure a professional psychologist would agree, but something in me understands that until we deal with our most traumatic traumas, there's a part of us that stays at the age at which we encountered them.

Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience

He used to be a German, but he completely recovered.