Quotes About Recovery

Substance abuse is a disease which doesn't go away overnight. I'm working hard to overcome it. I did fail my recent drug test. I'm prepared to face the consequences.

When the storm has passed, put your energy into rebuilding your life, don't waste time looking back.

I don't think anyone can give you advice when you've got a broken heart.

Healing wasnt always the best thing. Sometimes a hole was better left open. Sometimes it healed too thick and too well and left separate pieces fused and incompetent. And it was harder to reopen after that.

Advice after injury is like medicine after death

I'm not there yet, but I can definitely feel myself getting over him. Soon...

Dear girls with a broken heart, There are guys out there with glue guns.

Your relationship ended, not your life. Get over it.

Jane Morgan had ruined him. Ridden him hard and put him up wet. He might never recover. Mentally he was even worse off. Who was this girl?

I had no idea that the simple act of running a sharp blade across my wrist would change everything so completely. I wasn't after happiness anymore. I just wanted to survive.

Relief was what I was looking for that day, and I didn't care how I got it. What I wanted - what I needed - was a pain that I could see and deal with. I couldn't cope with the mess inside of me any longer, and cutting myself seemed to be the best solution. I knew that it would work. What I didn't know was that I was about t engage in a behavior that was not just dangerous but highly, highly addictive.

We forget in order to survive our childhoods, when we are totally dependent on our parents' goodwill; but to recover from such childhoods, we must begin by remembering-the bad and the good.

If a mother has an unhealthy need to dominate her children-which she demonstrates by bullying, terrifying, neglecting, suffocating, indulging, humiliating, overprotecting or abusing them- those children must come to the recognition that such treatment is wrong in order to begin the long process of recovery and ultimate understanding.

Happiness" alone does not guarantee mental health and well-being. A tempering dose of disappointment- an occasional taste of frustration and learning that you do recover from it- goes a long way toward producing long-term contentment. Indeed the ability to ride out the bad times without feeling doomed is essential to survival. When happiness is not taken for granted, and when one is acquainted with its opposite it is more easily savored and has more lasting effects.

A person soon forgets about God as soon as he recovers from sickness.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

been shot four times.

Remember the height from which you have fallen!

But what I wanted to say is this: After the period of melancholy is over you will be stronger than before, you will recover your health, & you will find the scenery round you so beautiful that you will want nothing but paint

I knew well enough that one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

Against all expectations, the symptoms of Van Gogh's mental illness are conspicuous by their almost complete absence from his letters. Much as he chose not to paint before he had fully recovered from one of his attacks, so he refrained from writing at times of crisis. Throughout his life, admittedly, his letters bear witness to a man possessed, frequently agitated, enraged, dejected, obsessed, but never deranged, or emotionally or intellectually unstable.

All the same, I'm sure that if one is brave then recovery comes from within, through complete acceptance of suffering and death, and through the surrender of one's will and love of self. But that's no good to me, I like to paint, to see people and things and everything that makes our life—artificial, if you like. Yes, real life would be something else, but I don't think I belong to that category of souls who are ready to live, and also ready to suffer, at any moment.

É a primeira vez depois de muitos meses que eu pego um livro nas mãos. Isto me diz muito e me cura consideravelmente.

Non mi meraviglierebbe chela tua malattia fosse una conseguenza di questo odioso inverno che è durato un'eternità. Allora dovresti prendere le mie stesse medicine: cioè quanto più aria primaverile puoi; coricati molto presto, perché è necessario dormire, abbi cura dei cibi, mangia legumi freschi e non bere vini cattivi o altri pessimi alcolici. Infine pochissime donne e moltissima pazienza.