Quotes About Recovery

I turned only halfway, gave him half my attention. Half of myself. "Are you ever going to be happy again?

Calf love doesn't usually survive amputation, Your Majesty.

I think: it's the holidays. There are parties. I'm young. I've spent the past two years going to oncologists. I'm going to put on my party shoes. And I do go to one party, and I leave when people start to dance around a pole. Later I start dating the man whose party it was, and he remembers being glad I came, and casually tells me how he flirted his head off that night. I'm not in your country, I think. I haven't lived in your country for a while.

Without answers, at my most desperate, I came to feel (in some unarticulated way) that if I could just tell the right story about what was happening, I could make myself better. If only I could figure out what the story was, like the child in a fantasy novel who must discover her secret name, I could become myself again.

Longevity is not whether or not you break, it is how well you recover and repair when you do.

Sometimes it is good to fall down so that we can see whether we honourably get up or disgracefully turn into a miserable reptile!

Wars can destroy everything but hope!

People help themselves by trying to help others, and this is the process that helps alcoholics get sober and stay that way. Love and tolerance of others, as stated on page 84 of the text of Alcoholics Anonymous, is the "code" of living that is suggested to AA members.

We have lived for too long in the dreary region of homo economicus, our lives shadowed by principles of self-interest, utilitarian 'necessities,' instrumental moralities. But we are permitted to hope; to revive those great and optimistic words of Breton: 'Perhaps the imagination is on the verge of recovering its rights.' We must welcome, as did the Surrealists, the re-entry into modern life of homo ludens, the imaginative man at play, the intuitive visionary.

Doctor Moran told you to get your rest," Jim said doubtfully. "The good doctor can go and ... attempt the anatomically impossible," Ryan said dryly.

But mostly there was the ease that came from not having to pretend you had ever recovered. The world wanted you to go on. The world needed you to go on. But the Mumble Jumbles understood that the loss soundtrack was always playing in the background. Sometimes it was on mute, and sometimes it was blasting away on ten, making you deaf.

Seriously. I doubted I could ever fully trust anyone ever again. He took that away from me. Trust.

I've wept enough in my life. I have no tears left.

I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

If she allowed herself to give in to the whole sadness of it, she'd never ever be able to operate like a normal person again.

Recuerdo amor. Es lo que tengo que seguir recordándome. Es gracioso cómo puedes olvidarlo todo, excepto el amor de las personas que te han querido. Tal vez por eso a los humanos nos cuesta tanto recuperarnos de las historias de amor. No es el dolor lo que tratan de superar, es el amor.

Di le preguntaba algo sobre ellos me decía solamente que ya no quedaba nadie y que si se permitía experimentar toda la tristeza que eso le provocaba, nunca podría volver a funcionar como una persona normal.

Si le preguntaba algo sobre ellos me decía solamente que ya no quedaba nadie y que si se permitía experimentar toda la tristeza que eso le provocaba, nunca podría volver a funcionar como una persona normal.

It's what depression does to a person; it changes them completely.

Recuerdo amor. Es lo que tengo que seguir recordándome. Es gracioso cómo puedes olvidarlo todo, excepto el amor de las personas que te han querido. Tal vez por eso a los humanos nos cuesta tanto recuperarnos de las historias de amor. No es el dolor lo que tratan de superar, es el amo.

I stand before you a totally healthy person.

If love was a disease, I'd been cured.

You're not weak at all. Wounded, but that's nothing to be ashamed of.

I did survive. I still am. And it won't happen again.