1,260 Quotes About Recovery

For the sake of peace she choose silence.... now daggers have been sharpened for the upcoming violence

We make sense of violent events by choosing to deny that they happened—or by blaming the victim. This is true even if the victim is yourself.

She wasn't a black hole, she decided. She was a volcano. And like a volcano, she couldn't run away from herself. She'd have to stay there and tend to that wasteland. She could plant a forest inside herself.

I once lay in a hospital myselfpraying to keep myself aliveand I’ve lain on several grounds tooand I know for a factit’s not very differentpraying to get to stay aliveand praying to want tostay alive.

I didn’t love my life but now I do. I’m sure I will fall out of love with it again at some point but I’m confident I will go to therapy and work it out and fall back in love with it.

The self sustaining beauty that pushes the fears and uplifts to dream, to hope and to begin again. What defines it is its act of endurance, through the grueling seasons of life.....

My mother crawled out of her deep, dark tunnel, but perhaps this phrasing is too imprecise, the image of crawling too forceful to encapsulate the relentless but quiet work of fighting depression. Perhaps it is more correct to say that her darkness lifted, the tunnel shallowed, so that it felt as though her problems were on the surface of the Earth again, not down in its molten core.

From the point of view of a perfectionist, it’s a frustrating lifestyle.

The feeling you have that 'there's something else' is real. What happens when you don't follow the compulsion? What is on the other side of my need [...]? The only way to find out is to not do it, and that is a novel act of faith.