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Quotes About Recovery

Even a few minutes of meditation in the morning and evening can allow your lymph to flow to the more urgent needs of your cardiovascular system, for recovery and prevention. Meditation and mindfulness practice have been documented to lower stress levels, and decrease cholesterol and blood pressure directly. As
~ Gerald M. Lemole
Our long national nightmare is over.
~ Gerald R. Ford
Well, they say trauma etches the neurons, and I was traumatized by my appalling behavior." Typical, Theo thought. He'd been accused, yet she was traumatized.
~ Geraldine Brooks
Through our own recovered innocence we discern the innocence of our neighbours.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I've just learned about his illness; let's hope it's nothing trivial.
~ Irvin S. Cobb
When you have robbed a man of everything, he is no longer in your power. He is free again.
~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.
~ Henry David Thoreau
I reckon being ill is one of the greatest pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.
~ Samuel Butler
When people asked, I used to tell them how sick I was. The more I talked about being sick, the worse I got. Finally, I started saying, "I'm getting better." It took a while, but then I started to feel better, too.
~ Michael Hirsch
The point of therapy is get unhooked, not to thrash around on how you got hooked.
~ Maryanne Walters
I believe that this neglected, wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
~ John Bradshaw
If I die, I forgive you: if I recover, we shall see.
~ Spanish proverb
It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.
~ Billy Joel
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
~ Christian N. Barnard
I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing other patients.
~ Oscar Levant
Prosperity is just around the corner.
~ Herbert Hoover
A broken heart is what makes life so wonderful five years later, when you see the guy in an elevator and he is fat and smoking a cigar and saying "long-time-no-see." If he hadn't broken your heart, you couldn't have that glorious feeling of relief!
~ Phyllis Battelle
From a fallen tree, make kindling.
~ Spanish proverb
Glee! The great storm is over!
~ Emily Dickinson
Addiction is a monster, and it's a really difficult monster to fight.
~ Stephanie Beatriz, 2019
Addiction is giving up everything for one thing. Recovery is giving up one thing for everything.
~ Author Unknown
If you let go of the things you're addicted to, your pains will let go of you.
~ Terri Guillemets
I was addicted to the hokey pokey, but I turned myself around.
~ Author Unknown
Perhaps this was rock bottom. But then, she had thought that before, and there was always a little farther to fall.
~ Abby Geni, The Wildlands, 2018