Quotes About Illness Recovery

#1. I don't quite fit in in like a pure dramatic thing, but I still think of myself sometimes as sort of a dramatic actress.

Leslie Mann

#2. Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least get out of the way so you won't get run over.

Miriam Makeba

#3. That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

Norah Vincent

#4. If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.

Bernie Siegel

#5. This illness made it impossible for me to give my best effort to our audience, but now that it's been identified, I'm looking forward to a complete, quick recovery and to get back out there with John as soon as possible.

Daryl Hall

#6. Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.

Tyler Hamilton

#7. Remember: if the most unique ideas were obvious to everyone, there wouldn't be entrepreneurs. The one thing that every entrepreneurial journey has in common is that there are many, many steps on the road to success.

Tory Burch

#8. Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#9. Recognizing your illness is the first step in your recovery

Maya Banks

#10. I never try and play a bad guy to be bad and to be brutal and to be nasty and vicious, because I think you're going to be very cliche there. You know, you've got to find the truth in that character and what he believes in. It just happens that, you know, he's wrong.

Sean Bean

#11. We need to be focused in corporate America on the long term.

Thomas Perez

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

Susannah Cahalan

#13. a fatal recovery from a promising illness

Thomas Boston

#14. He was the crazy one who had painted himself black and defeated the world.
She was the book thief without the words.
Trust me, though, the words were on their way, and when they arrived, Liesel would hold them in her hands like the clouds, and she would wring them out like rain.

Markus Zusak

#15. I like the idea of helping people help people.

Bryan Adams

#16. We got through it. Haven made excuses for me to friends, and made an appointment with a terrific doctor, who put me on Effexor, 150 milligrams a day, enough to get my brain straightened out.

Tyler Hamilton

#17. The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

Ann Marlowe

#18. The important thing is not the planning of an Index Verborum Prohibitorum of current noble nouns, but rather the examination of their linguistic function.

Theodor Adorno

#19. Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.

Ann Marlowe

#20. The brain is just another organ, vulnerable to illness and capable of recovery.

Sheila Hamilton

#21. Recovery is not so much a dream at it is a plan.

Carolyn Spring

#22. Light existed all along. Of course it did. Who says it didn't because I couldn't see it?

Gillian Marchenko

#23. The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

S.M. Stirling

#24. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.

Olivia Newton-John

#25. Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

Richard Bentall

#26. I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

Jenni Schaefer

#27. Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.

Cornelia Meigs

#28. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#29. Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

Mariel Hemingway

#30. Killing yourself slowly is still killing yourself. Wanting to die is not the same as wanting to come home. Recovery is hard work. Not wanting to die is hard work.

Blythe Baird

#31. So perhaps, it occurs to Billy, this is the whole point of civilization, the eating of beautiful meals and the taking of decorous dumps, in which case he is for it, having had a bellyful of the other way.

Ben Fountain

#32. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#33. The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

#34. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

#35. Mental illness is not a choice, but recovery is." - Anonymous

Omar J. Dames Sr.

#36. I needed some space to lay myself out, so that I could decide which pieces I wanted to pick up.

Fennel Hudson

#37. Rising from the ashes, I am born again,
powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.

Shannon Perry

#38. You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..

Anonymous

#39. I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor ...
I am one with myself.
I AM FREE!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#40. Life is indeed precious and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm that fact.

Edward I. Koch