Quotes About Recovery

I pointed to the wound. It's missing, I said. My grandmother smiled, and that was all it took for me to stop seeing the scar, and to recognize her again. Yes, she said. But see how much of me is left?

How can you be a survivor, when you can't even remember the war?

The thing that most people didn't understand, if they weren't in his line if work, was that a rape victim and a victim of a fatal accident were both gone forever. The difference was that the rape victim still had to go through the motions of being alive.

There is a fine line between seeing something that's lost as missing, and seeing it as something that might be found.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

You get through it, you just never get over it

Why are you doing this to yourself? When something bad happens, why do you have to pick at it until it bleeds all over again?

There was, really, nothing you could use as a blueprint for your life, except your past. There was no starting over. There was only picking up the pieces someone had left behind.

Even though the injury has faded, I still see it the way it was right after the accident: raw and red, a jagged lightning bold splitting the symmetry of my face. In this, I suppose I'm like a girl with an eating disorder, who weighs ninety-eight pounds but sees a fat person staring back at her from the mirror. It isn't even a scar to me, really. It's a map of where my life went wrong.

you don't ever recover from losing someone you love—even the ones you leave behind because you're better off without them.

if you don't get sick, you won't get well.

If you play and work hard then rest hard.

Let go of toxic control, in order to regain healthy control.

Work alternated with needful rest is the salvation of man or woman.

I also had to work through the violation of my date rape, my unhealthy relationships with men, my anger toward the people involved in the scandal, and those who exploited me afterwards.

When times are hard it doesn't mean life is over. It just means that we have to reorganize our life and goals.

I still miss my ex-husband, but my aim is improving.

Being cheated on takes a tole on your thought process...In every relationship after that you will think from a 'what if' perspective.

1st time being cheated on that I know of. Worst day of my life.

I used to care so much. I used to fight for this. I tried my hardest to hold on and keep you but you didn't want this as much as I did. I didn't lose you. Let's be honest, you lost me.

Betrayal is one of the worst kind of pain that we'll receive in our journey towards building a better world.

No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap.

The most damaging aspect of abuse is the trauma to our hearts and souls from being betrayed by the people that we love and trust.

I hate life. My friends betrayed me. I'm having trouble starting over?