Quotes About Recovery From Illness

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

Cornelia Meigs

#2. 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

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

Fennel Hudson

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

Shannon Perry

#5. This day and your life are God's gift to you - so give thanks and be joyful always.

James M. Beggs

#6. Your grammar is a reflection of your image. Good or bad, you have made an impression. And like all impressions, you are in total control.

Jeffrey Gitomer

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

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

Bernie Siegel

#11. 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

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

Omar J. Dames Sr.

#13. 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

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

Maya Banks

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

Susannah Cahalan

#16. a fatal recovery from a promising illness

Thomas Boston

#17. 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

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

Ann Marlowe

#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. What you think, you see. Your expectations create your reality.

Kelly Corbet

#22. 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

#23. The three main extra-rational activities in modern life are religion, war, and love. all these are extra-rational, but love is not anti-rational, that is to say, a reasonable man may reasonably rejoice in its existence

Bertrand Russell

#24. The gospel is so simple that small children can understand it, and it is so profound that studies by the wisest theologians will never exhaust its riches.

Charles Hodge

#25. Democracy is born in dirt, nourished by the digging up and turning over as much of it as can be brought within reach of a television camera or subpoena.

Lewis H. Lapham

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

Gillian Marchenko

#27. 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

#28. AND NOW I KNOW THAT YOUR MORAL COMPASS IS PERFECTLY ALIGNED, THAT YOU SEE CLEARLY WHEN THINGS ARE WRONG, AND YOU DO EVERYTHING YOU CAN TO STOP IT.

Kiera Cass

#29. 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

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Most of them benefit businesses, things like research and development tax credits. But people will also benefit, too, from things like - the earned income tax credit and the child tax credit have been made permanent. They predominantly help lower-income families.

Susan Davis

#33. 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

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

Carolyn Spring

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

Steven Kassels

#36. So you see, once a person drops the scales of prejudiced certainty and doubts appear, there is no telling how far a heart can open.

Louise Erdrich

#37. For like a rugged tree you are hard and sound at the core.

H. Rider Haggard

#38. 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

#39. Reading kicks God's balls in the ass!

Johnny Ryan

#40. 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