Quotes About Recovery

When you read enough stories about people who have been through different levels of trauma, and it doesn't matter what the history is, trauma is trauma, there's always this freeing of the spirit.

Academics have given up trying to recover an honest picture of the past and have decided that their history-writing should be simply an instrument of moral hand-wringing.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

Home is where you hang your hangover.

I can't walk, so I can't go home. No need to talk, cause I'm all alone. If I stay here they're gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.

Go home all you boys who fought with me and help build up the shattered fortunes of our old state

Don't take your bad shots home with you.

People give pain, are callous and insensitive, empty and cruel...but place heals the hurt, soothes the outrage, fills the terrible vacuum that these human beings make.

I ask myself: would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm, and instead of shock treatments received rest and quiet and the good medication?

It's not easy to find a topic. Talking of home is painful. Talking of the present unbearable.

We just bought a new house, so my wife's been doing all the moving and other stuff, so I would like to go home and just sit and enjoy all that for a couple months before I gotta start playing again

Even if our home burns down we can rebuild it. But the things that we got for nothing, we can never replace.

Everything is sore right now. Everything. I look like I'm doing okay but I can't wait to get home.

I began writing after my child was seriously hurt in a day care center accident, and I wanted to come home to be with her during her recovery.

Home was always the place she went to when she had to start over.

I will get America working again and see rising take-home pay again.

I lost an arm on my last trip home.

There's this thing called freebasing. It's not free, it costs you your home. It should be called 'homebasing'.

I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.

Honesty with ourselves & others gets us sober, but it is tolerance that keeps us that way.

Just as surely as distress must follow self-deceit, healing must follow self-honesty.

I have fallen, I have sunk so low. I have messed up, better I should know.

Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that now are in honor.

The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.