Quotes About Recovery

I was fully burnt out - and in some ways I think that was good, because I was just fully numb.

Well, sometimes you need the fields to lie fallow in order to gain nutrients.

What's more important than your nutrition? What's more important than workin' out? It begins with gettin' a good night's sleep.

Don't forget my new kidney is a foreign object. My body attacks it. So I have to take these anti-rejection drugs to stop my body winning.

Below seven hours of sleep, there are objective impairments in the body. Eight hours are recommended.

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

I think the best time to learn things is when you're hurt. Just sitting back and observing to see how you can be effective in certain parts of the games is important.

A codependent person is one who has let another person's behavior affect him or her and who is obsessed with controlling that person's behavior.

I was a mad obsessive cricket player as a student. Then during one local match I nearly lost my eye.

I had asthma when I was a kid, asthma so bad that it would turn into pneumonia and I almost died several times. Nobody knew why back then, but now it's obvious.

Injuries obviously change the way you approach the game.

My mom obviously had a problem.

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.

There have not been many occasions when I have bowled pain free and generally you are not 100 percent.

It was a beautiful stretch of water, either to a fisherman or a photographer, although each would have focused his equipment on a different point. It was a barely submerged waterfall. The reef of rock was about two feet under the water, so the whole river rose into one wave, shook itself into spray, then fell back on itself and turned blue. After it recovered from the shock, it came back to see how it had fallen.

Brenda was six when she fell out of the apple tree.

a cut cannot heal, unless you leave it alone. I'll open mine daily, leaving bones exposed

There ain't no feelin' in the world like takin' on somebody wilted and near bout gone, and you do what you can, and then all a-sudden the pore thang starts to put out new growth and git well.

So I'm not crazy?" "No. Your brain is doing exactly what you would expect it to do considering what you lived through.

We need to understand that victims of trauma are more prone to all forms of addiction because their baseline of stress is different.

Until you heal the wounds of your past, you will continue to bleed. The wounds will bleed through and stain your life.

power to destroy, they also have the power to heal.

We cannot get away from the fact that it is impossible for us to be very different from our convictions. It is hard for a physician to keep a patient alive who believes he is going to die and that nothing can save him. The bodily conditions follow his faith.

The soldiers called the bullets Lazarus pills: when possible, they could be picked up and used again.