Quotes About Recovery

Like breaking a leg, a serious injury to the psyche often gets us benched while the regular game of life goes on. It may seem strange that forgiving ourselves for having such perfectly human reactions is harder than forgiving whatever caused them.

Because when we lose someone we've allowed to be our whole life, we find that we have very little left to sustain us. Not only have we distanced ourselves from God, but we've lost something of ourselves in the process.

Previously traumatized wild elephants appeared to regain a degree of faith in new humans once the matriarch has established trust with just one new human. But it must be the matriarch.

To say I drank my way into marriage isn't much of an exaggeration, and it's none at all to say I drank my way out of it.

You show up at these meetings to stay sober and you walk out with a fucking education.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

When there is a world recession, at some stage the world or major countries will come out of it, and people will spend money again. How can you use your time now to develop something which will be needed when the recession ends?

Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. —Mike Tyson

the symbolic dimensions of disaster and recovery cannot be separated from political history. Even as buildings and memorials become the touchstones of memory and identity, they are also implicated in larger social, cultural, and political processes.

Humiliation scars deeper than the lash.

My health is very much improved.

Smoking saved me. The chemicals couldn't get past the charcoal in my lungs.

Today it's just a wound. It takes a long time before you realize it's become a scar.

I've reinvented myself many times over, picked up my broken wings and flapped till I could hop around again. I'm flying again now, in my bedroom, writing, looking out my window. I had no idea, until I began putting pen to paper, that so many memories were inside me waiting to be rediscovered. I'm very lucky. I may even come to know myself.

in a snap the world can fall dwon around you and leave you, for years and years, trying to get back to a place where once upon a time you were happy.

She smiled at him, not knowing how to say - you saved me. Instead, she said, "You must get well." Book 2, p188

The love she had felt for him in the past was still there within her, covered over now like a bandaged wound, not yet healed underneath and perhaps still easily reopened.

Your recovery is going to be painstaking, like the way the ants are building the tunnels, one grain at a time. But you will get there. I just know it.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

Look what was sown by the stars At night across the fields I am not defined by scars But by the incredible ability to heal

All cannot be lost when there is still so much being found

It takes years for the land to recuperate from a fire, but even in the darkest of ashes eventually something can grow.

Sometimes the things you've lost can be found again in unexpected places.

Tra la la, Fiddle dee dee, Hope you get well soon. Ho ho ho, hee hee hee, Have a heart-shaped balloon.