Quotes About Recovery

He felt like a man whose fever had broken, flush with the euphoria of the first, tenuous return of strength—still weak, but buoyant with the hope of an eventual return to wholeness. The sickness in his soul, however, laid a jealous claim on him.

You know how cats are. They'll heal themselves if you keep them locked up. In a couple of months his bones mended. But the fear didn't; it stayed in that cat's bones. He wasn't cocky no more. Now he jumps when I go by him with the wheelbarrow. Fear like that stays inside you forever if you don't find a way to get rid of it.

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures. ...We tell the story to get them back, to capture the traces of footfalls through the snow.

Like a starfish, the heart endures its amputation.

Death is a divorce nobody asked for; to live through it is to find a way to disengage from what you thought you couldn't stand to lose.

You got sober. You started work at the Globe. You started therapy. You got Clementine" (my first Samoyed). Here she gave me the side-eye and smiled. "And me, I might add.

I'm afraid that if I stop drinking, I'll be dreary, and anxious all the time, and dull," I had told him. "Well, you might be," he had said matter-of-factly. "The only thing you can know for sure is that you'll be a whole lot less drunk." After a while, a whole lot less drunk was what I aspired to be.

You're not tough. You're broken.

I can't forget. I can't really forgive. But I can live. Live with it.

I don't know exactly what you're feeling, but I know it hurts.' She tightened her hug a little. 'Trust me, it might get worse, but in the end, it gets better. It finally gets good. I swear.

We all acquire two types of scars; one is visible for all to see and the other resides deep within us. Both possess pain but others can only determine if the external scars have healed. The emotional scars within are usually more painful and can linger for years.

Rebooting is a wonder drug — it fixes almost everything.

Man can get used to anything, even feeling better.

No storm is forever.

the mere passage of hours is not enough to resolve a grief.

There are certain people who drain us, demean us, and distract us from other healthy relationships. Long after they're gone, we're still fighting with them in our minds and trying to get them out of our hearts. They keep us awake. They steal our joy. They demolish our peace. They make us (if we're honest with ourselves) weaker spiritually. They even invade times of worship and pervert them into seasons of fretting.

Less can be more. Sometimes the highest form of action is inaction. Athletes require rest and recovery time.

As mentioned earlier, when Targets call for help, there is a good chance that much time has passed. Targets often wait too long to seek help, thinking the problems are their fault.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

You can lose a game but, I see guys every week including myself, you lose a game, it's a tough loss, you're down, two weeks later you forgot about it. You know it's amazing how down you were, but all of the sudden you're like it never happened.

I think I'm undergoing a Lyra-2-type paranoia onslaught, but I'll be okay again in a minute.

Resorting to connecting the dots this morning because it was a long night & he needs to do something really simple to get started again.

This used to be a mean monster until he got sick one winter with the flu & stayed in bed & watched too much Little House on the Prairie & now the littlest thing & he starts to cry.

I was addicted to the Hokey Pokey, but I turned myself around!