Quotes About Recovery

Hurt leads to bitterness, bitterness to anger. Travel too far that road and the way is lost.

A newt?" "I got better.

The 12-step chocoholics program: Never be more than 12 steps away from chocolate!

from the late Joe Aldrich: "Only wounded soldiers can serve in God's army.

The officers had a ghoul pool, in which they bet on how many bodies eventually would be recovered. The estimates ranged from five to twenty-four. Everyone was low. Taking a cue from a movie just opening in Chicago theaters, they got themselves T-shirts emblazoned with "The Body Snatchers, No. 803640," the six digits referring to the case number, with large numerals "27," signifying the body count, on the other side. (That number also proved low.)

Our meditations waver and recover us, waver and reel us in to our bodies like fish willing at last to take on the joy of being fish, in or out of the water. When we gather at last at the summit and sit with him we know we have moved the mountain to its top as much as it carried us deeply into each step.

She knew from her own experience what a great labour it was, binding up again all the mess of self, which in your extremity you had unbound.

Take a sad song and make it better.

You can call the depression hotline.

Grief is a normal healthy response to loss

The intersection of multiple forms of oppression complicates the experience of trauma and the trauma recovery process (Holzman, 1996).

He had, in fact, cracked his knee-cap. But refusing to have a doctor

He who licks his wounds cannot be affectionate

Compassion for myself is the most powerful healer of them all.

I do not laugh; I do not cry; I'm sweating out the will to die. My past is sliding down the drain; I soon will be myself again.

Time didn't heal all wounds. I think time tricked people into thinking they were okay.

The proper task of the Savior is that he is a savior; indeed, for this he came into the world: to seek and save what was lost.

But to me it sounds like a man waking from a paralysis to discover, in rapid succession, that he can walk, that he can run, that he can run fast.

I've had malaria damn near eight times.

I was a very sickly boy when I was young; nearly died when I was 7. I had a life-threatening attack of meningitis, and that put me in a coma for a few months. It took me four years to get my memory back.

Time is not a great healer. It is an indifferent and perfunctory one. Sometimes it does not heal at all. And sometimes when it seems to, no healing has been necessary.

I feel great. I had a blood clot. It was a bad deal. But when I look at my friends with hip replacements, knee replacements, shoulder replacements, neck surgeries, back surgeries, I'll take the blood clot.

I greatly appreciate that people would like to see me have one more match or comeback or, 'Daniel Bryan got cleared, so why can't you?' I will never be cleared. Mine is a completely different injury. He had neck issues, but it wasn't his neck issues that retired him, actually. It was the concussion issues.

I got hurt when I was 19. They thought I broke my neck. I couldn't move my hands or feet, and I had a very bad experience.