Quotes About Recovery

Noah's flood is not yet subsided; two thirds of the fair world it yet covers.

When you're at the bottom, there's no place to go but up," said

The other day I noticed that my Muse, who had long been ailing, silent and morose, was showing signs of actual illness. Now, though it is by no means one of my habits to coddle the dogs, cats and other familiars of my household, yet my Muse had so pitiful an appearance that I determined to send for the doctor, but not before I had seen her to bed with a hot bottle, a good supper, and such other comforts as the Muses are accustomed to value.

Why did she have to happen? Just when I was doing so good without her.

We might get our country back," said the construction man, stirred. "I feel like I lost it. I feel like I been lost in it all this time." "I've been lost too," said the gas-station operator. "I've been trying to find somebody I can understand to vote for.

A scar had been beaten into his mind which would only heal by experience.

una persona es, entre todo lo demás, una cosa material, que se rompe fácilmente pero que no es fácil recomponer.

She felt like a hospital patient who longs for her kindly visitor to leave so she can resume being ill.

There's only one thing I'm afraid of—that we'll be broken forever, since someone who's been broken forever will never rise again. So tell them: 'Beware of losing forever.

Two years? That's entirely too long. If you want, we can take care of that. After two years it's pure therapy.

How are you? Perfectly fine, he said. Are your ribs broken? Probably not. Cracked at most. We fought very carefully. Did this settle anything? It made me feel better, he said, sitting up. Did you see me kick him in the kidneys? I saw.

Shifting in the hospital bed had blown her closet door wide open.

I do what I can to make young people understand that drugs can destroy their lives. I'm the perfect example of what people can accomplish when they have regained a sane body and spirit.

My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.

Not a day goes past when I don't think how grateful I am I survived, that I recovered and that I feel like a young woman again.

Oh my god, this makes me laugh so much: I once saw this young woman fall in a bar in Chicago, and she got up and she's like, 'These dang Sketcher Shape-ups!'

A relationship can be deeply damaging without anyone leaving marks on you. So many people - especially young women - end up trying to maintain those emotionally abusive relationships because we don't think it's that bad and that we are really some of the lucky ones because we haven't experienced 'real' abuse.

When I was younger and did a stand-up gig, it would take me two weeks to recover. Sometimes I'd get so panicked that I would stutter.

When I was younger you think you know it all and after games you probably just go for some food or sit on your PlayStation. Now I take it a lot more seriously and recover properly because I know I need to give myself the best possible chance to be as fresh and as fit as I can for the next game.

If I have a problem, stuff's going through my head, I feel like using, I usually go and talk to my dad... I decided to get sober a lot younger than he did. He first tried to get sober when he was like 32, I believe.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

I endured quite a few injuries when I was younger and had my first surgery on my foot when I was 15. But I love dancing. 'Anna Karenina' was great for me as it meant I could combine the two and I actually went back and did some classes.

I think I'm better than I was in my younger days, because I'm exploring deep lyrical material, and I've been sober for a while now.

My dad had just come back from Vietnam, and I think he had PTSD that he never treated, in that sort of macho-denial way. So they were divorced by the time I was 2, and my mom tried to raise me and my younger sister by herself. That proved very taxing, so there was a lot of moving around.