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Quotes About Recovery

Sometimes the strongest person needs to become the weakest so they can regain their thoughts and strength to be able to pick themselves back up and move on.
~ Unknown
These scars here upon my wrist help me know that I can get through this.
~ Unknown
Sometimes when you are broken hearted you either grow stronger or you never recover from it.
~ Unknown
You can break down and cry, but you have to get back up and start living again, because life goes on.
~ Unknown
A heart is a muscle..and what do muscles do when they are torn? They grow back STRONGER
~ Ritu Ghatourey
My eyes hurt from all the crying, my body is shaking from the pain, my heads banging form the stress but guess what after all that I know I don't need you and I don't want you anymore, I'll find someone who can treat me right, I gave you my heart but I'll take it back now, my heart might be broken but I'll come back from it.
~ Unknown
This time, it's over. I'm keeping my heart. I'm going to be strong and not fall apart, everything will get better. I'll no longer cry.
~ Unknown
Strength isn't about how much you can handle before you break, it's about how much you can handle after you break.
~ Unknown
I thought I was over him, done with him.. But then there he was, and I couldn't breathe.
~ Unknown
That moment when you think you're over your ex until you run into him.
~ Unknown
I want to move on. You have no idea how badly I want to get past everything and start over. But our old memories creep back into my mind and it occurs to me; I'll never be over you.
~ Unknown
The best feeling in the whole world is watching things finally fall into place after watching them fall apart for so long.
~ Unknown
One must have courage enough to deal with major life changes which helps to recover from the blows of life altering moments.
~ Unknown
No matter how far you are in the wrong direction, there's always a chance to turn your life around.
~ Unknown
It might hurt when you move on, but then it will heal. And with each passing day, you will get stronger and life will get better.
~ Unknown
Nightmares end, but they don't have to end who you are. Look at your friends and family and tell me things aren't going to get better. I dare you.
~ Unknown
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.
~ Unknown
In order for us to live our lives to the fullest it is best to cope with the pain in our lives that we encounter due to heartbreak.
~ Unknown
I lay on the ground after, breathing with effort. I would be left in peace. Peace. I would have laughed if I were not so ill.
~ Madeline Miller
But Machaon saw how well the shoulder healed, with no infection and little pain, and next time there was an arrow wound he called me over and passed me a sharp blade, looking at me expectantly.
~ Madeline Miller
He had a jagged scar on one leg, a seam that stitched his dark brown flesh from heel to knee, wrapping around the muscles of the calf and burying itself in the shadow beneath the tunic. It looked like it had been a knife, I thought, or something like it, ripping upwards and leaving behind feathered edges, whose softness belied the violence that must have caused it.
~ Madeline Miller
Losses are not retrievable. They are not setbacks. In the blankness left, perhaps other things come, a new thing, a different shape for the last thing's recollection.
~ Unknown
She put her head down on the table and cried all the tears that she knew she should have cried in the past year and a half. But they weren't ready then, they were now.
~ Maeve Binchy
I have sometimes found myself wondering if the same principle applies in other realms— if seeing a particularly astonishing shade of blue, for example, or letting a particularly potent person inside you, could alter you irrevocably, just to have seen or felt it. In which case, how does one know when, or how, to refuse? How to recover?
~ Maggie Nelson