Recovery Quotes
530 quotes
"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."
"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."
"Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole."
"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."
"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."
"Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."
"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"
"Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace."
"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."
"We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves."
"History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty."
"Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope."
"Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too."
"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."
"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…"
"But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness."
"The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it."
"Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues"say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over."
"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."
"It's crazy, how similar we are. Here's both of us, working through our stuff, trying to make something positive out of something really bad."
"Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!"
"Depression weighs you down like a rock in a river. You don't stand a chance. You can fight and pray and hope you have the strength to swim, but sometimes, you have to let yourself sink. Because you'll never know true happiness until someone or something pulls you back out of that river--and you'll never believe it until you realize it was you, yourself who saved you."
"No soul sin beyond recovery."
"ligion is the opiate of the masses." "I did masses of opiates religiously."
"No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way."
"Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34."
"You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now."
"Soon, when all is well, you're going to look back on this period of your life and be so glad that you never gave up."
"Hold yourself back, or heal yourself back together. You decide."
"She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him."
"It’s worth burning myself out like a matchso long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch."
"Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can make it one more. You’re doing just fine."
"We are more than our traumaWe are not our diagnosisWe are more than the worst thingsthat have ever happened to us"
"In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara"
Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
"Some stories won't have a happy ending, but there's always hope that the next one will. Hope is everything. Even when there's nothing else. Especially when there's nothing else."
"Dad thinks I'm ready to fly around the country as the Ambassador of Hope, but Mom thinks I'm a frail little bird with broken wings."
"Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper.And now Dad wants me to be the ambassador of hope for his foundation. How can I be the ambassador of hope, when hope doesn't change anything? When unrealized hopes only bring pain and despair?"
"Hope is made of air, and wishes. An empty box wrapped in shiny paper."
"My father is using me as a message of hope. My sister is using me as a message of fear.I don't want to be used by anybody."
"Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there’s still space for sweet things."
"It’s not by accident that people talk of a state of confusion as not being able to see the wood for the trees, or of being out of the woods when some crisis is surmopunted. It is a place of loss, confusion, terror and anger, a place where you can, like Dante, find yourself going down into Hell. But if it’s any comfort, the dark wood isn’t just that. It’s also a place of opportunity and adventure. It is the place in which fortunes can be reversed, hearts mended, hopes reborn."
"With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are."
"May the light be in you forever,May the sun love you and keep you,May the dream make you awaken.For the stars love to shine upon you, And the heavens cry for your loss.May goodness and love flow through you once more,Drink of the light and the love here,Find that we all need you,May your spirit come back across."
"Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain."
"My friend Bailey is looking at me with tears in her eyes and a smile of pure joy. She sees me, the real me, not the broken little bird that my mother sees, or the Ambassador of Hope that my father sees, or the girl who was stupid enough to walk off with a stranger and ruin everyone's lives that my sister sees. Bailey sees me as I want to be: a normal, non-newsworthy, non-broken, non-victimized sixteen-year-old girl."
"My Keeper's house. Right there. Brown shingles, dark red shutters, yellow-and-black police tape wrapped around the massive tree trunks. The attic window looks out over the yard and the world narrows until that attic window is the only thing I can see."
"So many cameras are on me. This press conference is going to be on every news channel and posted on the internet. Thousands, maybe millions of people will see me. And they will all be thinking: Victim. Victim. Victim."
"There is a rise after every fall."
"Self-care is how you take your power back."
"and tonight we held each other, one last time,like a dance to aslow songon an empty floor, underneath a singledisco ballin front of no oneat all"
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