Quotes About Recovery

There comes a point where you have to stop trying to repair yourself and accept the fact that you're broken.

one of my first achievements was to blow up the warehouse all of us called home.

He felt like an addict who, after abusing a narcotic for years, somehow found himself sober

Where was this taken?" Jardin recovered enough to speak. "Near Lawrenceville.

I clawed my eyes open and rolled off my bed. For some reason, someone had moved the floor several feet lower than I had expected, and I fell and crashed with a thud.

When men's fowls and dogs are lost, they know to seek for them again, but they lose their mind and do not know to seek for it.

Ya no creo en las catástrofes, puesto que la última ha fracasado. Ya no creo en la desgracia, ni en la muerte. La humanidad entera se encuentra en el estado mental del niño que le ha perdido el miedo al coco.

There can scarcely be anything worse than surviving something which shatters your mind and leaves you obsessed with revenge.

But the spark vanished, there was no longed-for recognition, no dawning sign of recovery. The love she had learnt in tending him was an enclosed love, muted and maimed, already mourning. They would never communicate now.

I will not attempt to describe how I got through the next few days. There are desolations of the spirit which can only be hinted at. I sat there huge-eyed in the wreck of myself.

How we tracked him, you most of all of course, and lost him and found him.

We are all mad sometimes, but it passes. The consequences do not pass.

Yet the love is there, the love is there — only it's as if it's so wounded it has curled up and gone into a black hole.

don't let jesus in. AA is just one obsession replaced with another

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Johnny wis a junky as well as a dealer. Ye hud tae go a wee bit further up the ladder before ye found a dealer whae didnae use. We called Johnny 'Mother Superior' because ay the length ay time he'd hud his habit.

No pasa nada..., se pondrá bien..., saben lo que hacen..., se pondrá bien.» Y sé que no es cierto, pero abrazo a Janey y pienso en lo mucho que puede llegar a cambiar una vida en lo que tarda uno en meterse un pico.

Was he an alcoholic? What was that? Someone who drinks all the time? Who can't say no to a drink? Who drinks in secret? Somebody who anticipates the next drink before he's finished with the one in front of him?

Everytime ye go to jail, the probability ay ye ever becoming free fae that kind of life decreases. It's the same every time ye go back tae smack. Ye decrease yir chances of ay ever bein able tae dae withoot it.

Lo he dejado varias veces. Dejarlo y volver a picarse es como ir a la cárcel. Cada vez que vas a la cárcel, disminuye la probabilidad de que alguna vez estés libre de ese tipo de vida. Es igual cada vez que vuelves al caballo. Disminuyes tus posibilidades de ser capaz de prescindir de él algún día.

Wiedzia? dawniej, ?e mo?na z?ama? r?k? lub nog? i wyzdrowie?; do tej pory nie wiedzia? jednak, ?e mo?na wyzdrowie? po ataku szale?stwa.

There is no pleasure like the absence of pain – immediately after pain.

It wasn't the bomb that defeated us, but our own shell shock.

Le había costado mucho recuperarse del amor frustrado y temía que si oyera su voz por un instante volvería a naufragar en la misma pasión obstinada de antes.