#recovery

Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. ↗

— China Miéville

#injury #inspirational #recovery #scar #scars

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. ↗

— Tammy Duckworth

#died #during #experience #had #i

Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else. ↗

— Tim Cowlishaw

#alcoholism-addiction-recovery #help-self #inspirational-success-failure #inspirational

She needed to recover. His father had died in January; it was only the end of May. They needed to stick to the routine they'd established during the intervening months. in that way, their life would return to its original shape, like a spring stretched in bad times but contracting eventually into happiness. That the world could come permanently unsprung had never occurred to him. (223) ↗

— David Wroblewski

#happiness #recovery #life

Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic. ↗

— Aberjhani

#angels #courage #faith #haiku #haikus

Resiliency is the essence of a global positive framework... ↗

— Asa Don Brown

#psychologist #psychology #ptsd #recovery #research

There's no recovery on Main Street, I can tell you that for sure. And in a re - in an economy like this, we don't need to be raising anybody's taxes. ↗

— Haley Barbour

#economy #i #i can #like #main

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us . . . to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves, to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ↗

— Oswald Spengler

#memoir #recovery #suicide #surviving #transformation

I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#already #discovery #i #i think #inner

The president's grand experiment in trickle-down government has held back rather than sped economic recovery. He seems to sincerely believe we can build a middle class out of government jobs paid for with borrowed dollars. ↗

— Mitch Daniels

#believe #borrowed #build #class #dollars