Quotes About Recovery

I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper.

His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up.

I have no idea what the record for being effectively dead is, but Fabrice Muamba didn't seem to have broken it.

I'll have got him out of my system." "I hope not." "Really?" "What would there be left of you, if you did?

My friend Simon managed only sixteen of the seventeen League games - he smashed his head on a bookshelf in London a few hours before the Grimsby game on the 28th of Decemebr; his girlfriend had to take his car keys away from him because he kept making dazed attempts to drive from Fulham up to the Abbey.

I'm OK. Really. I can find people. I'll be all right.

A couple months after my heart attack, fifty-seven years after I'd given it up, I started to write again. I did it for myself alone, not for anyone else, and that was the difference. It didn't matter if I found the words, and more than that, I knew it would be impossible to find the right ones.

In 1755 one of the worst natural disasters of the eighteenth century occurred: the Lisbon earthquake that killed more than 20,000 people. This Portuguese city was devastated not just by the earthquake, but also by the tsunami that followed, and then by fires that raged for days.

it is not unusual to sift through ashes and find an unburnt picture

After I binged last night -or was it tonight - I was convinced yet again that there were people coming to get me. It was more than just shadows and voices, more than just fantasies....it was real, and I was scared to my core. My bones were shaking...m heart was pounding...I thought I was going to explode. I'm glad I have you to talk to, to write this down. I tried to keep it all together, but then I gave in to the manes and became one with my insanity.

One day I was handed a few volumes of new literature unlike anything I had ever read before and so captivating as to make me utterly forget my hopeless state. They were the earlier works of Mark Twain and to them might have been due the miraculous recovery which followed. Twenty-five years later, when I met Mr. Clemens and we formed a friendship between us, I told him of the experience and was amazed to see that great man of laughter burst into tears.

Justo en el momento del peligro, pero no antes, a Dios y al médico lo adoramos por igual; una vez pasado el peligro, por igual se lo pagamos: Dios olvidado, y el médico desdeñado.

Justo en el momento del peligro, pero no antes, a Dios y al médico adoramos por igual; una vez pasado el peligro, por igual se lo pagamos: Dios olvidado, y el médico desdeñado.

While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.

We must do away with any shred of denial, minimization, justification, or rationalization. To recover, we must completely and totally understand and accept the truth that addiction creates suffering.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

So we ate some smoke, so what?" "You lost most of your eyebrows." Stunned, she pressed her fingers above her eyes. "Shit! Why didn't you tell me?" "It's a look.

It's life, and it's messy, and it breaks down.

Playing with your mind, that's what she's about." Carrick waved a hand, then tossed the little star that clung to his fingertips out over the water, where it trailed silver light. "Cooking you a meal, making everything, herself included, pretty for you. A more devious female I've never known. You're well shed of her.

Then she remembered what her mother called heart-sleep. That sleep a wounded heart needed to help it heal. She rubbed the ring and medal between her fingers.

Then she remembered what her mother called heart-sleep. That sleep a wounded heart needed to help it heal.

A broken spirit is more debilitating than a broken body.

They broke his mind instead, and that's dangerous

sleep all day. Haven't been sleeping well