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Quotes About Recovery

The moment I'm most proud of my career is when I got dropped by the headkick by Carlos Condit. I fell down and I was able to stand up.
~ Georges St-Pierre
What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'
~ Nikki Sixx
Now I can stand up on the stage again like I used to after five years of sitting down while I sang.
~ Etta James
When you bottom out, you have to stand up and get going again.
~ Gerry Cooney
My first breakup happened when I was in standard 9th. I remember being very lost, and for me, it was like the end of the world, and I will never find another girl.
~ Aditya Roy Kapur
I had the bottom rib broken and pushed in and it took an inch or two off. It really hurt when I lay down but if I was standing up or sitting it was OK. It wasn't horrifying.
~ Amanda Lepore
The shaman is not merely a sick man, or a madman; he is a sick man who has healed himself.
~ Terence McKenna
If a man takes one day off, it takes him about three days to get the harness fitted again.
~ E. W. Howe
In 1688 England contracted to the Netherlands the highest debt that one nation can owe to another. Herself not knowing how to recover her liberties, they were restored by men of the United Provinces.
~ George Bancroft
I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.
~ Dusty Baker
If man has one good memory to go by, that may be enough to save him.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
A man came round in hospital after a serious accident. He shouted, "Doctor, doctor, I can't feel my legs!" The doctor replied, "I know you can't, I had to amputate your arms"
~ Tommy Cooper
No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A sound man is good at salvage, at seeing nothing is lost
~ Laozi
People in the hospital ... call me the wellest man on the ward. That's what's going to sustain me. I have these energy reserves that I somehow can't seem to deplete.
~ Andrew McMahon
When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.
~ Anthony Trollope
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
~ Augustus William Hare
Surely again, to heal men's wounds by music's spell.
~ Euripides
To touch a sore is to renew one's grief.
~ Terence
Thing was, after the hurricane, life went on. You had to buy milk, fix the broken windows, play some Warhammer, discuss some girls. Wow!
~ Teresa Toten
An addict needs shame like a man dying of thirst needs salt water.
~ Terrence Real
When an illness knocks you on your ass, you should stay and relax for a while before trying to get back up.
~ Terri Guillemets
For those wounded by civilization, yoga is the most healing salve.
~ Terri Guillemets
Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin
~ Terri Savelle Foy