Quotes About Recovery

What was broken will never be the same again

It isn't the light you want to recover, it's the certainty that there is only darkness

I only started to get better once I accepted that I had a problem.

when the past dredges up a memory capable of opening old wounds, suddenly other wounds appear and make the soul bleed more deeply, until you have to kneel down and cry.

Don't try to get yourself smoked; this will come soon enough. A 30-minute practice is about right. When done, you should feel energized rather than wiped out. You should hardly be sore the day after.

Do not be afraid to push into slight overtraining and then back off with lighter workouts. As a Lithuanian saying goes, "A river with a dam has more power.

You are to do nothing else during this practice—only lift the kettlebell and move for active recovery. There is no chatting, looking at members of the opposite sex, watching TV, fooling around with your phone (absolutely no phone), taking a drink of water, or going to the bathroom. Just training. Your session is barely half an hour long; stay focused.

It's an extraordinary thing—every time I see you, you appear to be recovering from some debauch. Don't you ever stop drinking? How about when you are asleep?

Things falling apart is a kind of testing and also a kind of healing.

In My Stroke of Insight, the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's book about her recovery from a massive stroke, she explains the physiological mechanism behind emotion: an emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course.

In My Stroke of Insight, the brain scientist Jill Bolte Taylor's book about her recovery from a massive stroke, she explains the physiological mechanism behind emotion: an emotion like anger that's an automatic response lasts just ninety seconds from the moment it's triggered until it runs its course. One and a half minutes, that's all. When it lasts any longer, which it usually does, it's because we've chosen to rekindle it.

There are times when you just have to let it all out. All the anger, all the pain.

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, and always attempting a legal argument for release.

If your heart is broken, make art with the pieces.

We make art out of our loss.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

Because all the sick do not recover, therefore medicine is not an art.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

The country is so wounded, bleeding, and hurt right now. The country needs to be healed-it's not going to be healed from the top, politically. How are we going to heal? Art is the healing force.

Im inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

I am what I am again: a writer. I have metabolized the injury into art.

It is not easy to recover an art when once lost.

An art that heals and protects its subject is a geography of scars.