Quotes About Recovery

A great many sick persons are allowed to drift into a critical condition when ill—from which many never rally, because they are not fed—not furnished with such nutritive material as their enfeebled powers can digest.

Inevitably, one day you awoke from the shock of sudden death to find one impossible truth staring you coldly in the face. From this day forward, you must relearn living. You must create for yourself a new life in which the person who has died is no longer present.

When I was straight, I had the courage and energy to become an actress. I owe my career to my will to stop using.

It's amazing how coke encompasses everything in your life. Addicts cannot confront life because they only think of their next hit. I ruined life for my parents, my sister and all my friends.

First cuts are deepest

I'm sorry about what you've had to live through," Dr. Walton said quietly. "But we're here to help you overcome your past. We're here to help you live." (260)

History shows that epidemics have been the great resetter of countries' economy and social fabric. Why should it be different with COVID-19?

As both an economist and public-health specialist put it: "Only saving lives will save livelihoods",[23] making it clear that only policy measures that place people's health at their core will enable an economic recovery, adding: "If governments fail to save lives, people afraid of the virus will not resume shopping, traveling, or dining out. This will hinder economic recovery, lockdown or no lockdown.

When I was young, I could bounce back from things like a brand-new rubber ball.

I sit and gaze like this for a long time, recovering through art from the effort of creating it.

One night, Tess finds me sobbing during the health segment of the evening news. Scientists have discovered scarred cells from cardiac arrest fall away over time, and she can't understand how sadly hopeful that is. To me, it means that the human heart has the capacity to heal itself.

Somehow the human heart figures out how to move on. It isn't easy but the alternative is a bit much.

It's going to be ok, you know that now, don't you? I know there will be something else, but I also know that it will be ok. It has to be ok.

There really is no justice in a broken life!

I stand up, trying to shake myself mentally. Get over him, Maggie, I instruct myself. I need to stop. I really do. I want to. I'm going to. I sound like a drug addict. Perhaps there's a twelve-step program for me. Priest Lovers Anonymous.

I was hit by a car, and according to the Hallmark Channel, I'm supposed to come home.

I'm going to email you every week and invite you out for dinner, and you can turn me down as much as you want, but when you're ready, we'll go somewhere fabulous with huge drinks, my treat. And you can tell me about him, or we can talk about bridezillas or gossip or go to a movie. We can talk now if you want, or we can just get down to work." I

Maybe we never get over what happened when we were little.

He was still so beautiful, though I recognized the signs of a hard struggle with alcohol and drugs. He was thinner than I remembered, and a few capillaries were broken in his cheeks. There were a few scars that might've been from skin picking on his face, a classic habit of a junkie.

He's had some drug and alcohol issues, but he's getting clean now." Oh, fuckety fucking McFuckster. Not bad enough that he still had a chip on his shoulder. He was a drug addict, too. And lived just down the road. "Think he's dangerous?

I was a person who had suffered a trauma by giving up my baby, and this recovery process was necessary.

I could grow from that broken place and be better for it. A flower growing through a crack in the pavement, as it were.

The therapy let me grieve and find ways to cope.

Child, the healing of wounds takes time, and there is no better salve than gardening