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Quotes About Recovery

When you involved in an accident and someone asks "are you alright?" Yes fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.
~ Billy Connolly
One of the things that's often forgotten about drug rehabilitation, it's not a destiny. It's a journey.
~ Peter Hobson
It became sort of a snowball effect, with guys trying to deal in their own way with 9/11, whether it was drinking or whatever.
~ Denis Leary
Kipling: Where's your sense of humor? Rebis: We're working on reconstructing it.
~ Grant Morrison
Billions of years before twelve step groups, God committed shotgun suicide. Today wall scrapings share His gratitude stories.
~ Brian Spellman
Who knew death could lead to an eating disorder?
~ Corey Redekop, Husk
I can still feel my legs, thanks for asking. My back's not even hurt that badly. Only as though I was just hit by a train.
~ Jayde Scott, A Job From Hell
But then, even with cuts, bruises and blood all over him, he looked like his jackass self again."- Alex Gold
~ R.J. Morse, R.J. Brookes
Doing that hunt scene was really quite demanding. I actually broke a rib during that scene. And then all the scenes after that became quite challenging, just breathing and laughing.
~ Guy Pearce
The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.
~ Edward Mazria
Payne nailing him in the face woke him up. George brought him back his independence. But Beth handed him his crown.
~ J.R. Ward
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
~ Bikram Choudhury
I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.
~ Ann Richards
God heals, and the doctor takes the fees.
~ Benjamin Franklin
There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with.
~ Harry Crews
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.
~ Patricia Deegan
Where there is ruin, there is hope for a treasure.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.
~ Patricia Deegan
Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
~ George S. Patton Jr.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
~ Kahlil Gibran
When you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging.
~ Tammara Webber
I keep telling people: Don't make me the poster boy for AA because I don't know a lot about sobriety, but I do know a lot about drinking.
~ Billy Joel
I had concussions as a kid playing football and basketball, and know what it feels like and to have someone say 'Just rub some dirt on it, and get back in there.'
~ Billy Corgan
I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove I'm still a nutcase.
~ Steve-O