Quotes About Recovery

Part of us did die. Literally - that tissue on your face, the part they removed. It died. And you can't recover from any kind of death without mourning it.

Death had touched her, hurt her, and left her to deal with its disagreeable aftermath.

Everyone thought that things were getting back to normal. They had no idea that normal didn't exist for me any more. Normal had been smashed on the rocks beneath the bridge.

When you attempt suicide, the counselors try to talk you out of trying it again by asking you about other people, which is good prevention if you care about other people.

... [They] took it upon themselves to start the laborious process of cranking up life again, after death has stopped us all in its tracks.

What kind of miracle ripped out your heart, and left you breathing?

The final tormenting, unanswerable question: what is 'success' in mourning?

But now the other half of "us" was gone and, lying there in my shadowy room, I'd be struck with this realization that I had no clue how to be just me again.

I don't know why I can't let the insults go, but I can't. I'm the product of every hurt that's ever been laid on me.

If it had been a heart attack, the new

An upturned life is righted in the box.

They ought to bury people in hospitals and let sick people get well in the cemeteries.

A chatWith the Grim Reapershould be enough to scareaway any thought of relapse.Wish it were that easy, but not even days conversingwith death can disintegratethe claws of addiction.

He's extremely dehydrated and we'll need to get fluids into him as soon as possible if he's to have a hope of surviving

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.

Typomania is curable but not fatal. Unfortunately.

Giving up an addiction means re-programming that part of your brain that makes you restless and unhappy if a desire is not realized.

If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.

Arms now empty will be filled and hearts now hurting from broken dreams and yearning will be healed.

I think the best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina.

Youth is a malady of which one becomes cured a little every day.