Quotes on Recovery

I have no problem with religion, and I grew up with a strong curiosity about spiritual matters, but my searching took me away from church and community worship to the internal journey. Before my recovery began, I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter.

My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.

The recovery of spiritual sight and the healing of physical blindness have much in common. Some of those whose bodily eyes were blind received their sight at once, like the man who heard and immediately saw and was healed. Others recovered their sight gradually as in the case of the man, who, before he was completely cured, said, “I see men as trees, walking”. It is the same with those whose spiritual eyes were healed.

A clear lesson of history is that a 'sine qua non' for sustained economic recovery following a financial crisis is a thoroughgoing repair of the financial system.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.

What could you do better for your children and your children's children than to record the story of your life, your triumphs over adversity, your recovery after a fall, your progress when all seemed black, your rejoicing when you had finally achieved? Some of what you write may be humdrum dates and places, but there will also be rich passages that will be quoted by your posterity.

Without restoring an ethos of social responsibility, there can be no meaningful and sustained economic recovery.

You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you’ll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no . . . anything. There’s no chance at all of recovery. You’ll just — exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever . . . lost.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.

You can't fix yourself out of a mental health issue. You can't wake up and say, 'Today I'm not being depressed!' It's a process to get well, but there is recovery.

Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.

Hope Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering 'it will be happier'.

The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery.

While my speech is getting better every day, throughout my recovery, I have been able to sing to some extent.

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.