Quotes About Recovery

Losers are more like the rest of us. They make mistakes they can't take back.

We all take losses and it's about getting up and coming back.

I'm not in a position physically to take in five years of losses and downtime.

When I was young I lost everything.

I've lost audiences, I've recovered them.

So often we have this image of what drug addiction looks like, and it's not fun. Our loved ones who go down that path are in pain.

I'm back to doing everything I used to, loving life as ever.

There's always gonna be some pain, I think, because my body's going to be like, 'Where are your lower legs?'

In 2018 I really hurt my back, my lower back, and it's been a couple of years where we finally found out that I have an extra vertebra in my back.

I suppose I hit my lowest point in the early to mid-80s, which is when things really spun out of control for me.

I'm grateful for the doctors that'll be scooping out these lungs and giving me some more life to work with. I'm grateful for the chance to keep being a person.

It's hard for me to hear about the things that I believed during my madness.

I've learned a lot about pain management.

I think body management is going to be essential if I want to play everything, almost everything.

In March 2008, when I was 24 years old, a man I had been dating arranged for an accomplice to throw sulphuric acid in my face.

After the pain, the pleasure.

Five weeks in the hospital fled as if down a sinkhole into the middle of the earth. ... Can waiting by definition slow, flash by? ... Time becomes even more elastic than usual--minutes can stretch for ages and days suddenly snap together. [p. 97]

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

I needed a lost language. One in which I could communicate with the lost.

Una mente fatigada tiende a tomar derroteros infructuosos; no hay nada que una buena noche de sueño no pueda reparar.

Another great luxury is letting myself cry - I always feel marvellously peaceful after that. But it is difficult to arrange times for it, as my face takes so long to recover; it isn't safe in the mornings if I am to look normal when I meeter father at lunch, and the afternoons are no better, as Thomas is home by five. It would be all right in bed at night but such a waste, as that is my happiest time. Days when father goes over to read in the Scoatney library are good crying days.

Acknowledge that people bound by the chains of true addictions often need more help than self-help, and that may include you. Seek that help and welcome it. Talk to your bishop. Follow his counsel. Ask for a priesthood blessing. Use the Church's Family Services offerings or seek other suitable professional help. Pray without ceasing. Ask for angels to help you. . . .

I am an alcoholic. I'm the first to admit that. I can't drink at all. One drink is too many and a thousand's not enough.

I was behind in school, there were papers to write and exams were coming up but still I was young; the grass was green and the air was heavy with the sound of bees and I had just come back from the brink of Death itself, back to the sun and air. Now I was free; and my life, which I had thought was lost, stretched out indescribably precious and sweet before me.