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Quotes About Recovery

My thoughts, I think, will soon be sound.My mind, I hope, will soon be found.
~ Tahereh Mafi, Destroy Me
A small step toward recovery is giant progress.
~ Mark Cortes
The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.
~ Phoebe Stone
Bad moments don't last forever, things do get better.
~ Shailee J-N
Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality.
~ C.S. Lewis
Why is it beautiful that humanity keeps coming back? So does herpes.
~ Isaac Marion, Warm Bodies
Humor heals the heckler.
~ Gerald C. Meyers
Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town.
~ George Carlin
A sense of humor is the best indicator that you will recover; it is often the best indicator that people will love you. Sustain that and you have hope.
~ Andrew Solomon
Hats off to drug abusers everywhere.
~ Jerry Coleman
My father always used to say, "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," - 'til the accident.
~ Jimmy Carr
I joined gamblers anon., they gave me 2 to 1 I wouldn't make it! I joined AA, there was a two drink minimum!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Humor was an antiseptic that cleaned the deepest of personal wounds.
~ Sherman Alexie
Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered.
~ Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
~ Steven Wright
By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.
~ Jon Stewart
Well, my brother says 'Hello.' So, hooray for speech therapy.
~ Emo Philips
Children are often the silent victims of drug abuse.
~ Rick Larsen
Seeing is believing to most families who have lived with a drinker.
~ Bill W.
I used to do a lot of drugs. I didn't stop because I didn't enjoy them; I stopped because I couldn't handle the commitment.
~ Marc Maron
Man. Being mostly dead is hard on a guy.
~ Jim Butcher, Cold Days
A tax cut is really one of the anecdotes to coming out of an economic illness.
~ George W. Bush
What humor allows you to do is to let the past go with less pain. It's a healing element. It releases some of the pain from the shotgun wound.
~ James McBride
I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.
~ Jim Norton