Quotes About Recovery

I have since learned that forgiveness does not protect us from past, present and future abuse.

When we have been betrayed in our most basic human relationship—and that trust is never restored—how can we learn to trust ourselves to respond appropriately to betrayal?

On April 30 Lucy cheerfully reported that, after three days' illness, she was on the mend. Although she had no mirror, she could feel twenty pockmarks on her face. 'I am almost glad you do not see it.," she wrote, "I don't believe I should get one kiss and yet the doctor tells me it is very becoming.

This was excellent news. It had only been a few weeks since her attack so I hoped there would still be scars.

needed comforting after discovering my boyfriend of two years, Todd, had stuck his salami in someone else's sandwich. I referred to him now as my ex-boyfriend 'The Toad.

I know you feel that everything's been taken away from you. But you'll get things back. It just won't be quite like before. But it'll still be good.

After three weeks on Zoloft and Lexapro, I felt like a new person. But not a person anyone would ever want to get to know.

The only cure for grief, someone had once told her, was love.

Getting over what you did to me is not why I get out of bed anymore.

It just goes to show—killing your demons doesn't really end the torment. Real monsters leave behind damage. You can slay the beast a million times over—but the scars they inflict last forever.

That dead feeling hits hard and permeates the first year. It comes back to test you often in the following years, but if you get through the first year, then you know about it. It will never have the power to defeat you again.

the artist and the alcoholic have parallel paths. They both go into the darkness, but the alcoholic gets stuck there. The artist (if she is not also addicted) goes into the darkness and is transformed by the experience and comes out more alive.

Divorce was very sad, obviously, but now I've gotten over it.

It's similar to the run-walk-run method for endurance running where you don't wait to be too tired to run before you take a walk break. By resting even before the point of mental fatigue, you extend your ability to focus intensely on the task at hand … including reading.

There are so many things I can never get back. So much pain. So many tears. So, so much. ...but even so...I'm tired of always looking down and missing what's important.

Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!

Maybe he should stop with the pot. But then he wouldn't be able to get stoned anymore, and that was hardly a solution.

All these wounds that I can't get unwound

I remember thinking, "How does anyone survive something like this? And if they do, what kind of person comes out the other end?" I didn't know, but throughout that dark time of grief, sorrow, desolation, and complete despair, something in me seemed determined to carry on. Something would come up.

America was founded by intellectuals, from which it has taken us two centuries and a communications revolution to recover.

Put yourself in the shoes of an eighteenth-century country doctor. You're treating a very ill patient. You've tried everything, yet nothing seems to work. So, in desperation, you put together a mixture of herbs and potions. Your patient takes the mixture and recovers. Eureka! Your medicine works, you've found a miracle cure. What you don't see, in your enthusiasm, is that the patient was getting better anyway.

For the rest of your life you honestly believe it was your mixture which caused the recovery.

This is where he had ended up, lying on his back, trying to forget himself.

Every junkie's like a setting sun.