#recovery

"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."

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

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

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"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."

"I am a work in progress."

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

"Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears."

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

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

"Instead of saying, "I'm damaged, I'm broken, I have trust issues"say "I'm healing, I'm rediscovering myself, I'm starting over."

"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"

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

"The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."

"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."