1,260 Quotes About Recovery

STAY POSITIVE (your body hears everything you think)

We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.

The darkness in me could not stand the light any longer. It wanted to escape, vanish without a trace to a place where it could not be seen. But I could not let it happen; I could not let it run, I’m giving it no choice. It was going to ride itself out and face the truth it doesn’t want to know. It was to face itself in the mirror of hope, of despair. I gave the darkness no choice. It was to turn back into the light.

And I know I’d rather be happy and bland than tortured and interesting. Yet, sometimes it still makes me angry, that I don’t have the option to destroy myself anymore.

People who have never dealt with mental illness will never understand know how legitimately triumphant it feels to decide to take a shower and then actually do it.

Recovery is a verb, not a noun. You have to be an active participant in order to continuously improve.

The word 'survivor' carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women. It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be 'at risk' of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.

This book is dedicated to those who have died as a result of mind control and/or ritual abuse, and those who have lived when they would rather have died.

I'd never known that I could feel this broken and whole at once.