#recovery

"Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive."

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

"We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy."

"Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace."

"So often survivors have had their experiences denied, trivialized, or distorted. Writing is an important avenue for healing because it gives you the opportunity to define your own reality. You can say: This did happen to me. It was that bad. It was the fault & responsibility of the adult. I was—and am—innocent.” The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass & Laura Davis"

"Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too."

"Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously."

"Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope."

"I am a work in progress."

"A single day is enough to make us a little larger or, another time, a little smaller."

"You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been."

"A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew."

"The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it."

"We can be redeemed only to the extent to which we see ourselves."

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."

"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."

"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."

"Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth."

"Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…"

"Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps"