Quotes About Recovery

This is the part where they try to make you remember," said Sadie. She looked at my wrists. "Is it working?" Without realizing it, I'd pushed one sleeve of my pajamas up and was rubbing the gauze that circled my wrist. I stopped, and let the sleeve fall back where it was.

One of the best T-shirts I ever saw,said: i was happy once,but i'm better now.

How come someone always saves the people who try to kill themselves and then makes them tell everyone how sorry they are for ruining their evenings? I keep feeling like everyone wants me to apologize for something. But I'm not going to. I don't have anything to apologize for. They're the ones who screwed everything up. Not me. I didn't ask to be saved.

l'enfer vécu et habité rend légitime et désirable un monde où l'on tâcherait d'éviter le retour de ce qui, de près ou de loin, peut lui ressembler.

You should have died

But when He became incarnate, and was made man, He commenced afresh the long line of human beings, and furnished us, in a brief, comprehensive manner, with salvation; so that what we had lost in Adam—namely to be according to the image and likeness of God—that we might recover in Jesus Christ

And grief, for anyone who has ever experienced it, is exactly like a predator. It steals first your happiness, and then—if you allow it—everything else.

Once you've taken the knife out of your heart, it makes for a wonderful story.

Sometimes people had to hit rock bottom to get to the Rock at the bottom.

It felt as if things were literally slipping through my fingers. Things were just streaming away from me. I lost my sense of humor. I'm still looking for that.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

Since Wilken was never able to master the trauma in his life, he is still caught up in the compulsion to repeat it,

He was sodomised in prison and contracted a venereal disease. After this he suffered from impotency and the .22 rifle became a substitute for his penis. He said when he was with a woman his body became dead and he could not get an erection, but the moment he held the gun in his hands, his whole body became warm and alive.

when a man is sexually abused as a child, he will take it out on others, while a woman will tend to take it out on herself.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

You are come off now with a whole skin.

Come back sound, wind and limb.

Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly." —Luke 11:28–30 msg

Dwelling upon what once hurt you will only bring new surprises, new losses, more disappointments—new reasons to be hurt.

Because that's the thing about grief no one ever tells you: it's greedy. You don't notice at first because you're still in shock, and there's so much to do, from obtaining death certificates to canceling utility contracts, but hour by hour, day by day, it eats up every last scrap of energy you have, leaving you spent and empty.

Gonna have to give myself a mental enema when we get back to the TARDIS.

As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I'm recovering from tuberculosis.

Stab the body and it heals, but injure the heart and the wound lasts a lifetime.