Quotes About Recovery

Effective grieving, however, turns the love you've been giving another toward yourself.

I have woven a parachute out of everything broken. WILLIAM STAFFORD

The end of love is a crossroads, and there will be those who go on to live lesser lives in the aftermath of heartbreak. My hope is that you are not one of them.

It's often said that a traumatic experience early in life marks a person forever, pulls her out of line, saying, "Stay there. Don't move." JEFFREY EUGENIDES

It's clear that love is the container in which broken hearts are rebuilt.

The truth was, sooner or later life broke everyone. We were all broken pieces. The trick was to gather up our remaining fragments and move forward. "Life

More than five million seniors have already saved money on their prescription drugs, and almost 33 million have benefited from free preventive services. The president cracked down hard on Medicare and health care fraud, recovering a record-breaking $10.7 billion over the last three years, protecting our seniors. That's what change looks like.

Ladies didn't wake up on the floor, covered in cat.

The three cords to my rope were the religious (worship and prayer), the psychological (psychotherapy), and the physical (medical treatments, hospitalization, and exercise).

The sick individual cannot simply shrug it off, pull out of it, or slow down mentally. While God certainly can pick up the pieces and put them together in a new way, this can happen only if the depressed brain makes it through an episode to see again life among the living.

She pined for Rick and the brief but happy life they had once shared, before his drinking had ruined everything.

She had been shot once, point-blank in the chest, from five, maybe six feet away.

been give a second chance, Nurse, an' I'm grabbing it wi' both hands.' And presently, when the tea was finished and the biscuits crunched down, Rose snuggled under the covers, careful to keep her injured arm away from her body, and was soon fast asleep –

did emerge from hospital

If Holland recovers consciousness, tell him we'll get him to a healer just as soon as we can," I told them. "You may not want to let him see his arm lying there, though. That's an awfully startling thing to see when you just come to your senses." - Ysolde

And I don't tell Saff the truth: that my body knows more than my brain does, too, that that's why I starve it.

Our injuries will heal as long as we're alive. But the scars will remain..." - Allen Walker

Even though the wounds will heal the scars will remain." Allen Walker

No pill can help me deal with the problem of not wanting to take pills; likewise, no amount of psychotherapy alone can prevent my manias and depressions. I need both. It is an odd thing, owing life to pills, one's own quirks and tenacities, and this unique, strange, and ultimately profound relationship called psychotherapy

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

After all, if I could fix an old coat, then surely, I could find a way to sew myself back together.

He'd first seen her as a battered broken thing and his empathy had quickly become desire. She would wake, he'd believed, and she would need him. But it was clear now that she needed no one.

I may have lost my mind for a time, but grief makes everyone crazy.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.