Quotes About Recovery

Arthur, I…I'd just been released from a mental institution.' She looks up at me from under he lashes, gauging my reaction while seeming to dread it. I just stop my jaw from dropping. 'Mental institution?' I'd been sick the last quarter of my sophomore year, so my mom made me go to a clinic in Atlanta.' This girl's been heaven-sent for me! I, too, had been sick. Until I'd tested my concoctions on myself, eventually discovering a cure.

They come in injured and mangled, we put them back together, then they stand in my halls making demands. A thankless lot to be sure.

Maybe time didn't heal wounds exactly, but it gave you a kind of armor, or a new perspective. A way to remember with a smile instead of a sob.

It was a terrible thing to do undergo, but during the year I stood there I had time to think that the greatest loss I had known was the loss of my heart.

there is a relationship between the mind and the body that can both create a physical condition and enable us to recover from it

The fact is he [John F.Kennedy] always had to have somebody around besides Jackie [Kennedy]. Whatever their relationship, he wanted company. I think it gets back to all those years in a hospital bed.

Drugs became an obsession, like Culture Club had been, like religion later became although I'm through with that now.

...Jesus Christ might simply have returned to his carpentry following the use of modern psychiatric treatments.

I think that there are many different ways of getting and staying sober. Like religion, I just don't think that one way is the only way.

In the places that call me out, I know I'll recover my wordless childhood trust in the largeness of life and its willingness to take me in.

Denial makes it easier to keep an addiction progressing smoothly along and, being a lie, it's just better form.

I actually have a great deal of respect for antidepressants; I think they can be enormously mighty tools toward recovery.

I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.

disrespectful words cannot entirely be eaten, ever. Respect is a kind of Humpty Dumpty. All the king's horses can't put it all the way up again.

Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self-esteem. They're no good at all.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

A lot of people get the wrong impression, think there's something romantic or tragic about hitting bottom.

So, " Cooper said conversationally. "You got hit with a shotgun blast. What's that like?"...She turned back to Cooper. "Well...um...it hurt. Like really big bee stings on crack.

Those who are heartless, once cared too much.

To all the broken-hearted and anyone feeling sad, may your hearts heal and may you feel happy in your lives.Flutter as the butterflies do.

For me, singing sad songs often has a way of healing a situation. It gets the hurt out in the open into the light, out of the darkness.

Does pain go away and leave no trace, then?' 'You sometimes even feel sentimental for it.

Healing is as incremental and mysterious as the damage ... what took time, takes time.

find yourself suffering from some "medical condition