Quotes About Recovery

The downturn following the collapse of Japan's so-called bubble economy of the 1980s was not as severe as the Great Depression.

It will go away... The stuff in your head. Little by little.

Now I just have these reddish scars there. I guess I always will, although Goody says they'll fade over time. I don't know if I want them to fade. That probably sounds totally freaky, but part of me doesn't want to forget what it felt like, even though it hurt. If I forget about the pain, I might also forget that it was a really stupid idea to do it in the first place.

Let me tell something, seeing your name and psychiatric ward on the same piece of paper isn't the best way to start your day.

Hasta oldu?umuzu bilmemek de iyile?memizi daha zorla?t?r?yor.

Hey, you'll feel better soon. It's all perceptual. Chemical, even. Feeling down, feeling up, it's a cycle. You wake up one morning and the whole thing looks different. Trust me.

One of the most powerful things I'd learned since getting sober is to love and accept life on life's terms. Alcoholics have a hard time doing this; we're little id-driven crybabies, guzzling and complaining about how nothing in this life goes the way we think it should. Accepting and even embracing the world as it is can be radical, and it can have powerful, positive results.

My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.

Humans are storytellers. It is our nature to make up stories, to interpret everything we perceive. Without awareness, we give our personal power to the story and the story writes itself. With awareness, we recover the control of our story. We see we are the authors and if we don't like our story, we change it.

That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love. With these three points, the whole world will heal and will no longer be a mental hospital.

lot of emotional poison from an injustice that comes from her husband.

We need to open the wounds and clean the wounds, use some medicine, and keep the wounds clean until they heal.

The truth is like a scalpel because it is painful to open our wounds and uncover all of the lies. The wounds in our emotional body are covered by the denial system, the system of lies we have created to protect those wounds. When we look at our wounds with eyes of truth, we can finally heal these wounds.

That is the healing. Three simple points: the truth, forgiveness, and self-love.

He had spent a lifetime cleansing his mind of poison. He had searched his heart, found the corruption, and removed it. He had torn away the lies—lies he'd been told and had believed, and lies he had devised and used against himself. This was his mastery—the purification of the mind and the recovery of authenticity. This scene symbolized the mastery of death, the awakening.

Decirte la verdad quizá resulte doloroso, pero no necesitas aferrarte al dolor. La curación está en camino; que las cosas te vayan mejor es sólo cuestión de tiempo.

There's no statute of limits on a wounded heart

No doubt about it, I was a mess. I needed to go and lie down in a darkened room until my body decided to let me off the hook for the abuse I'd subjected it to over the past couple of days.

You can dispose of evil," Abby added, "but you never can reclaim what it has done.

Gerçekten de, iktisadi bunal?mlar, doÄŸal afetler ve savaÅŸlar, kapitalistlerin büyük ölçeklerde varl?k ele geçirmesi için harika f?rsatlara dönüÅŸmüÅŸtür. Felaketlerden sonraki yaÄŸmac? müdahalelere "?ok doktrini" denmektedir.

I, the unfortunate Doctor Polyakov, who became addicted to morphine in February of this year, warn anyone who may suffer the same fate not to attempt to replace morphine with cocaine. Cocaine is a most foul and insidious poison. Yesterday Anna barely managed to revive me with camphor injections and today I am half dead.

A morphine addict has one piece of good fortune, which nobody can take away from him—the capacity to spend his life in total solitude. And solitude means important, significant ideas, it means contemplation, tranquillity, wisdom...

it refused to stay burned.

What hurts us is what heals us.