Quotes About Recovery

I reached out and placed my hand on the book and thought maybe someday I wouldn't need the bruises or the scars anymore. Maybe someday it would be all right for the scars to go away.

Truth, like surgery, may hurt, but it cures.

Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.

Das Leben geht immer weiter, auch unter Ruinen. Die Ruinen sind unwichtig, aber das Leben ist wichtig. Das Leben mit einem Grashalm in der Stadtmitte zwischen tausend zerstörten Steinblöcken. Es geht immer weiter.

Er ist wieder gesund, er spürt Arbeitslust in sich, er glaubt an seine Zukunft. Und man kann nicht an die eigene Zukunft glauben, ohne an die Seinen, den näheren Kreis, das ganze Volk, ohne an die Menschheit zu denken. Er glaubt an das Weiterbestehen, an das Wiederhochkommen Europas, weil er an das eigene Wiederhochkommen glaubt.

Who is to emerge from the flood if we go under in it?

Take a break from dating. This can be for as long as you need. But give yourself time to heal. I like to use the Wite-Out example. Unless you allow the Wite-Out to dry on the paper, writing over it will just cause a smudge and uncover what is still underneath. Wait until you heal before getting back out there.

Remember, nothing is forever. The darkness passes. The illness subsides.

Crises, especially severe crises, have a purgative effect. In the business world, insolvent businesses that adopted a bad strategy close down, and bad loans are written off. Then lenders can lend with a new confidence again. This is the process that Joseph Schumpeter celebrated as creative destruction.

One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.

It is time to revive and recover the third article of the Creed; to live corporately and communally in a world of expressive individualism. . . . We need to show how the Holy Spirit calls, gathers, enlightens and sanctifies people one by one through the gospel, and then draws them into communion in his holy church.

Denial and minimizing is often seen in genuine PTSD and, hence, should be a target of detection and measurement.

But I'm very thankful that no one is slamming my head against the wall anymore.

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.

Alcohol whipped me. Alcohol and I had many, many marvelous times together. We laughed, we talked, we danced at the party together; then one day I woke up and the band had gone home and I was lying in the broken glass with a shirt full of puke and I said, 'Hey, man, the ball game's up'.

Still, national politics meant little to him: about as much as paper airplanes would mean to the survivor of a plane crash.

Nearly every crisis seems to be the worst one, but after it's over, it isn't so bad.

Cade grayed out a few times. Next thing he knew, he was back at an aid station. "We'll fix you up, Captain," a doc said through a surgical mask. "You're gonna be just fine." "You tell him, Hawkeye," another doctor said. Cade grayed out again.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.

Twelve Step programs counsel "Look back, but don't stare." Wonder why? Because it's fucking painful!

The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum.

Disease is a process. Healing is a process.