Quotes About Recovery

If we don't forgive, we stay emotionally handcuffed to the person who hurt us.

Forgiveness is a scalpel that removes emotional scars.

I haven't sought self-forgiveness because I feel I was preyed upon and not responsible for the many bad things that happened to me.

Forgiveness is the finding again of a lost possession.

That daily life is really good one appreciates when one wakes from a horrible dream or when one takes the first outing after a sickness. Why not realize it now?

The time has come to recover the valiant courage of our forefathers, who understood that faith and freedom are inseparable, and that they are worth fighting for.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

When my soul was in the lost-and-found You came along to claim it.

I failed eating, failed drinking, failed not cutting myself into shreds. Failed friendship. Failed sisterhood and daughterhood. Failed mirrors and scales and phone calls. Good thing I'm stable.

Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

I called a detox center - just to see how much it would cost: $13,000 for three weeks! My friends, if you can come up with thirteen grand, you don't have a problem yet.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

I had to stop drinkin, cuz I got tired of waking up in my car driving ninety.

To get over my divorce, I got a prescription to live at the Playboy Mansion for a while.

I used to have a drug problem, but now I have enough money.

I have been laid up with intentional flu.

Please guard my pieces while I am making it whole again.

What used to make you happy is gone, but if you don't give up, you'll find someone or something else that will make you happy again.

Never be afraid to fall apart because it is an opportunity to rebuild yourself the way you wish you had been all along.

I am forever engaged in a silent battle in my head over whether or not to lift the fork to my mouth, and when I talk myself into doing so, I taste only shame. I have an eating disorder.

A healthier way of thinking and acting is to allow yourself to receive the help and love you need.

Sometimes the relationship you need to rescue is the one with yourself.

The easy part about having a crush is the fall, the hard part is to pull yourself back up when you have been hurt and the other person doesn't even know it.

When faith is kneeling by his bed of death, And innocence is closing up his eyes, Now if thou would'st, when all have given him over, From death to life, thou might'st him yet recover