Recovery Quotes

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

Suddenly, she doesn't want to die. She has no real reason not to, no sudden revelation, except that ...

What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more tha...

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vis...

Death wins nothing here,gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to...

Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it wa...

Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to re...

Hope drowned in shadowsemerges fiercely splendid––boldly angelic.

Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, the...

Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tem...

History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made ...

You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forg...

I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that y...

You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news i...

You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town

And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing o...

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this wo...

There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of...

ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire a...

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

I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could...

Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattere...

Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capaci...

Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what wo...

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed libra...

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with despe...

One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't g...

For several days, I slept. Whether this was a necessary part of physical recovery, or a stubborn ret...

Do you have any idea why you might be feeling better?”“No, not really,” I said curtly. Better wasn’t...

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

Living like an empty shell is not really living, no matter how many years it might go on

Anyhow, even though I might go out on a date with a boy, emotionally I just wouldn't be able to conc...

But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each ot...

He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house,...

Recovery begins from the darkest moment.

The question is not how to get cured, but how to live.

It was not my strength that wanted nursing, it was my imagination that wanted soothing.

Its front porch had a beautiful view of the water and invisible screening to keep the jellybugs and ...

There would be a general reclaiming of fallen buttons and misplaced spectacles, of neighbors and kin...

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at...

You gwyne to have considerable trouble in yo' life, en considerable joy. Sometimes you gwyne to git ...

We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves.

If I walk along a shore towards a ship which has run aground, and the funnel or masts merge into the...

In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will ...

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . ...

A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller.

The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have reboun...

The world has long ceased to be the author of your anguish.

Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in...

The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand ...

Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm...

What was so painful about Amy’s death is that I know that there is something I could have done. I co...

The job numbers are positive. We've had more jobs created now than were lost during the recession. W...

This time I read the title of the painting: Girl Interrupted at Her Music. Interrupted at her music:...