Quotes About Recovery

Where I'm from, they'll beat your head until it gets back down to normal size.

Right when I was lying on the ground and saw my legs, I didn't think first, 'I'm going to die.' I was thinking, 'I'm not going to run again. I can't play basketball. I'm not going to skate.'

If you are going to be ice skating for three or potentially six months you are probably going to get injured a lot.

In 2001, the hard disk on my laptop crashed, and everything on it was lost. I'd been using the computer for two, almost three years, and had all my work on it - email, which was stored locally; photos; fragments of poems; presentations; sketches; ideas; love letters; everything. I lamented the loss to my friends and got lectured on doing backups.

I ripped all the cartilage out of my hip in a water ski jumping accident. I am a bit accident prone.

After 13 years of hard landings in gymnastics, one ski run had delivered the biggest injury of my career.

Like many men, I am highly skilled in the art of losing things but prefer to outsource the recovery process.

The employer is not going to choose the gang member who's just been released from prison: they're going to choose the person with the skills.

I wanted to use my writing skills to bring attention to the overwhelming needs of the Gulf coast region.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys - I jump out of my skin.

Personally, I've always been ashamed of my body and I've hated being so skinny - I had an eating disorder for so long.

I had to teach myself how to walk again. It was crazy. I couldn't even make a muscle in my leg. I felt like no muscles in my leg. I was already skinny. It was like my leg was dead.

Pot is an insidious drug because it can steal your life away from you, without you even being aware of it. I had a love affair with pot for ten years. Pot was my most devoted partner.

A break up is the closest thing to bereavement

If you haven't been in a war and are wondering how long it takes to get used to losing everything you think you need or love, I can tell you the answer is no time at all.

Do not grieve so much for a husband lost that it wastes away your life.

There's no hurt so great that love can't heal it.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

Yes I was burned but I called it a lesson learned. Mistake overturned so I call it a lesson learned. My soul has returned so I call it a lesson learned...another lesson learned

Or maybe watching you enjoy a carefree summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it's debilitating.

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

... love is too delicate a flower to rise again when one has trampled it under foot.

There's a part of us that is addicted to suffering, that equates love with suffering.