Recovery Quotes

Everything is, the way it is, for a reason. Or it isn't. Or neither. Or both. It's so hard to tell. It's so hard to tell you're a mile away by the Luke in your eye.

~ Alistair Mcharg

I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I’d drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That’s when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.

~ Dina Kucera

We've been there and come back. When you fall in the pit, people are supposed to help you up. But you have to get up on your own. We'll take your arms, but you have to get your legs underneath you and stand.

~ Bucky Sinister

We take action when we have the honesty to admit that things are still broken, despite our best efforts otherwise. We take action when we hold ourselves continually open to new techniques, remaining resolutely receptive to new sources of support and new feeds of information. We take action when we are willing, in each new moment, to try again.

~ Shannon Cutts

They got drunk and high on a regular basis, but this is a vestige of youth that you either quit while you're young or you become an addict if you don't die. If you are the Old Guy In The Punk House, move out. You have a substance abuse problem.

~ Bucky Sinister

Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.

~ Russell Brand

All humans at some time experience injustice, assault, disqualification, invasion and betrayal. No person is completely shielded. We need not trace our family trees very far back or study for long what life was like for our forbears to uncover humanity's abusiveness. The inherited scars of our multigenerational families exist in our family systems as we know them today. The abuse of the past often exists as the shame of today, and the shame is perpetuated through our patterns of interaction.

~ Merle A. Fossum

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

~ George S. Mcgovern

Clinicians have told me that our emotional is arrested at the age that an eating disorder takes control of our lives. After we recover, we pick up emotionally where we left off at that age.

~ Jenni Schaefer

Myth: US housing market is in recovery. Fact: Big banks have been hiding their bloated home inventory, seized by virtue of home foreclosures.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to lead you home.

~ Nick Lake

Anorexia cannot be cured by treating the physical symptoms alone, it is the mind which must be treated.

~ Lynn Crilly

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: What can I do today to make my life better? What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?

~ Bucky Sinister

In truth, Serenus, I have for a long time been silently asking myself to what I should liken such a condition of mind, and I can find nothing that so closely approaches it as the state of those who, after being released from a long and serious illness, are sometimes touched with fits of fever and slight disorders, and, freed from the last traces of them, are nevertheless disquieted with mistrust, and, though now quite well, stretch out their wrist to a physician and complain unjustly of any trace of heat in their body. It is not, Serenus, that these are not quite well in body, but that they are not quite used to being well; just as even a tranquil sea will show some ripple, particularly when it has just subsided after a storm. What you need, therefore, is not any of those harsher measures which we have already left behind, the necessity of opposing yourself at this point, of being angry with yourself at that, of sternly urging yourself on at another, but that which comes last -confidence in yourself and the belief that you are on the right path, and have not been led astray by the many cross- tracks of those who are roaming in every direction, some of whom are wandering very near the path itself. But what you desire is something great and supreme and very near to being a god - to be unshaken.

~ Seneca

Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?

~ Dan Wells

The good news, however, is that, also contrary to popular belief, full and lasting recovery from an eating disorder is possible.

~ Lynn Crilly

He still heard his mother's voice--Davey--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others--his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in.

~ Jerry Spinelli

Eradication of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

Expunction of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.

~ Kierra C.t. Banks

I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.

~ Kris Kidd

You are the writer, producer, and director of your own mind programs.

~ Elizabeth Bohorquez

Now I’msober and Irealize, Ididn’t drink toescape the world,I drank to escapemyself

~ Phil Volatile

There is no one way to recover and heal from any trauma. Each survivor chooses their own path or stumbles across it.

~ Laurie Matthew

Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?

~ Rebecca Rosenblum

I want to just go back to being the person I was before, but you can't stop being the person you've become. You just have to keep going forward.

~ Rebecca Rosenblum

if you are always drinking, you should probably never drive

~ Dmitry Dyatlov

Seen like that, he was just a shadow; darkness, a nothingness, before real power. The men of this world, epics included, would pass from time. I might be a worm to him, but he was a worm himself in the grand scheme of the universe.

~ Brandon Sanderson

That’s the only thing you can do with a mess. Start cleaning it up, a little at a time.

~ Lisa Wingate

Healing hurt.

~ Ryan Graudin

Like daffodils in the early days of spring, my neurons were resprouting receptors as the winter of the illness ebbed.

~ Susannah Cahalan

My mom doesn't say anything. I don't say anything. Neither of us knows yet what you should say when rape victims blame themselves: 'It was not your fault.' It was not your fault, even if you were drunk, even if you were wearing a low-cut minidress, even if you were out walking alone at night, even if you were on a date with the rapist and kind of liked him but didn't want to have sex with him.

~ Joanna Connors

At this very moment, you may be saying to yourself that you have any number of admirable qualities. You are a loyal friend, a caring person, someone who is smart, dependable, fun to be around. That’s wonderful, and I’m happy for you, but let me ask you this: are you being any of those things to yourself?

~ Phillip Mcgraw

Another question I am frequently asked is, What do you mean by recovery? It has taken me a while to answer that one. I had been depending on other people's definitions of recovery until I developed one that worked for me (just as you must come to one that makes sense for you.) Mine is simple. For me, it is about fre

~ Mike Lew

As long as everything stayed the same, it seemed possible for him to come back. As long as everything was the way he had left it, his place was open for him. But if things changed beyond a certain point, his place in my life began to close, he could not reenter it, or if he did, he would have to enter in a new way.

~ Lydia Davis

Why lie, Robert? Why lie? You know that lying is the alcoholics kryptonite, you can’t afford it, the reasonable voice in his head screamed.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

~ Emma Woolf

Many of us learned that keeping busy…kept us at a distance from our feelings...Some of us took the ways we busied ourselves—becoming overachievers & workaholics—as self esteem…But whenever our inner feeling did not match our outer surface, we were doing ourselves a disservice…If stopping to rest meant being barraged with this discrepancy, no wonder we were reluctant to cease our obsessive activity.

~ Maureen Brady

A suicide is tragic because nothing interrupted it.

~ Emma Woolf

Basically, when it comes to women, both aging and eating are somehow shameful.

~ Emma Woolf

Everything was so broken, but it would heal. Saxonia will heal. Hollownot will heal. Everything will heal.I was broken. I will heal.It is certainty that destroys the souls of men.

~ J.m. Mcdermott