Quotes About Recovery

The most important thing in illness is never to lose heart.

When we have for so long been judged by everyone we meet, just to look into the eyes of another who does not judge us can be extraordinarily healing.

People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

The acknowledgment of our weakness is the first step in repairing our loss.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

Rest, rest, rest, rest, rest. Nutrition is obviously very important, but rest is equally important. At rest is when your body is trying to recover.

So, to prevent fatigue and worry, the first rule is: Rest often. Rest before you get tired.

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play.

Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?

If you lose 50%, it takes 100% to get back to where you started-and that takes something you can never get back: time.

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

Time will bring healing.

The thing is, if I don't have sobriety, I don't have anything.

If you are still being hurt by an event that happened to you at twelve, it is the thought that is hurting you now.

When you hit bottom, the only place left to go is up.

You know, the mind is a remarkable thing. Just because you can't see the wound doesn't mean it isn't hurting. It scars all the time, but it heals.

If it is possible to die of grief then why on earth can't someone be healed by happiness?

The word that came to me now was "defiant." Because a person had to be defiant to be able to stand amid the wreckage of her life and instead of shaking a fist, pick up a hammer.

After being impaled by a javelin, while officiating- I'm doing fine now, just resting and hanging around.

Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

You destroy my life then feed me inspirational philosophy.