Quotes About Recovery

I was clipped from behind, and my leg got caught between my opponent's legs. As we fell, my leg snapped. It was a spiral fracture. They had to put in a plate and five screws. It was a devastating moment: one minute I was on cloud nine, and then I was out for the season.

My '24' death obviously sent Jack Bauer into a huge downward spiral.

I realized I had to work on all aspects of my recovery, the spiritual, mental and physical.

My spiritual system is 12-step programs. That's the only one I've ever had. I didn't have one before that.

Where people are now in terms of the economic crisis, they're looking at what we think is the bottom, and I think that's when people look to film and to spirituality.

What this does for me emotionally, psychologically and spiritually - to look in the mirror and not be ashamed - has been very important in not relapsing.

When I broke my neck, I was told that I came within a millimeter of dying or being paralyzed from the neck down. When it happened, I was numb on one side. In spite of how serious they were telling me it was, I never took it seriously. I kept saying it's going to be OK, I trained too hard to get hurt. Which is silly.

After Team B.A.D. split and the Brand Extension, I got injured and took some time off.

He was the only person caught in the collapse, and afterward, most of his work was recovered too, and it is still spoken of, when it is noted, with high regard, though seldom played.

Being a spokesperson for cancer awareness has been a passion of mine. It helps me in my recovery but also helps others.

Many stroke survivors look back on their attack as a stroke of luck. Of course, by luck they mean horrible paralysis.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.

I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

Nothing positive at all in my life came from my marriage, I can tell you that.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

Some patients, though conscious that their condition is perilous, recover their health simply through their contentment with the goodness of the physician.

Grief is like a physical pain which must be allowed to subside somewhat on its own before medical treatment is applied.

God heales, and the Physitian hath the thankes.

Depression is a treatable medical illness like cancer and heart disease.

You'll be fine, just some minor burns and hypothermia, which was kind of hard to explain.

Like a medical procedure,' Ruth said. 'Intricate surgery is needed to patch up the planet.