Quotes About Recovery

After all, computers crash, people die, relationships fall apart. The best we can do is breath and reboot.

In common with many who have a brain injury, I initially lost my confidence and felt very vulnerable, as if a protective layer of skin had been stripped away.

I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.

Slowly but surely, we are decreasing unemployment and we are restoring confidence to the future of the Greek economy.

The Australian economy is resilient, but business and consumer confidence is fragile.

I think confidence will come back.

The most essential factor to economic recovery today [1932] is the restoration of confidence.

The importance of a warm up and cool down can't be stressed enough.

Sharing your story is a courageous step towards healing your own heart.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she's still able to recover.

Grief is itself a medicine.

If you're an alcoholic or a drug addict, we flirt with death. We pull ourselves to the brink of destruction and if we're lucky we pull ourselves back. We all have that in us.

Andrew Wood's death changed things for a few weeks. I probably got even heavier into drugs after that.

I've always had bronchitis. I've been administered the Sacrament of Death three times for it

Divorce is probably as painful as death.

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

She's a fighter. She's fine. She's made tremendous strides." True—all the while he has been stoically enduring it she has made tremendous strides by finding it unendurable, by being devastated by it, destroyed by it, and then by denuding herself of it. She doesn't resist the blows the way he does; she receives the blows, falls apart, and when she gets herself up again, decides to make herself over.

All who drink of this treatment recover in a short time, except those whom it does not help, who all die," he wrote. "It is obvious, therefore, that it fails only in incurable cases.

people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them."2

Fear is the universal primal response to suffering. And yet beyond doubt it is also the single greatest "enemy of recovery.

Alcoholics Anonymous discovered long ago that the path toward cure involves more than a quick-fix solution based on increased knowledge. In fact, it involves a change that seems more theological than educational. Somehow the "victim" of addictive behavior must regain an underlying sense of human dignity and choice, a profound reawakening that usually requires much time, attention, and love.

Every hour or so she asks how I'm feeling, and I hear her giving reports on the phone to her friends. "He's doing better today. A little trouper, doesn't complain at all." I like hearing her talk about me, as if I matter.