Quotes About Recovery Mental Health

#1. I'm broken, but I have to learn how to live. I feel stuck together with scotch tape, like after any breath everything could come apart. If it does, if it all comes undone, I think I'll fall down and never rise again.

Anna White

#2. From the country with limited hope to grow your own business and express your own personality, Russia has become the land of significant opportunity.

Roustam Tariko

#3. Details are all that matters; God dwells in these and you never get to see Him if you don't struggle to get them right.

Stephen Jay Gould

#4. Tracy is more a help to me than I am to her.

Michael J. Fox

#5. You keep only what you give ... to Him.

Yasmin Mogahed

#6. Somewhere I read that anorexia recovery is more painful for the sufferer than actively engaging in the eating disordered behaviours

Nancy Tucker

#7. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.

Ellen Bass

#8. But no matter how much evil I see, I think it's important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.

Robert Uttaro

#9. I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Anna White

#10. 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

Geoff Shepherd

#11. 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

#12. An engaging examination of a painful subject, with a focus on healing and forgiveness. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

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

Jamie Tworkowski

#14. It's worth burning myself out like a match
so long as others receive the light and warmth I dispatch.

Shannon Perry

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

Shannon Perry

#16. Today is nothing but a snapshot of a place I've been, but not the place I'll always be.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#17. 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

#18. Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.

T-Pain

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

Steven Kassels

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

Carolyn Spring

#21. Some of the most effective segments are interviews with various staff members, including Aila, who works for the center's legal department. She explains the difficulties of rape prosecution, concluding that "only the survivor" can truly define justice. - Kirkus Review

Robert Uttaro

#22. At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

Baz Luhrmann

#23. Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

Richard Rossi

#24. An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!

Maggie Reese