Recovering Quotes
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We usually work 14-hour days, and sometimes 16 to 18 days, which doesn't leave much time for anything else - most Sundays are spent recovering.
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I am a recovering alcoholic.
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I'm a recovering optimist.
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In the army you feel violated - there's no private space. Writing was a life-saver, a way of recovering private territory.
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Ruin and recovering are both from within.
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I went to Catholic school in and out. I'm what you call a recovering Catholic. I have many major issues with the church.
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I'm a recovering undercover over-lover.
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Loyalty, Signor Molteni, not love. Penelope is loyal to Ulysses but we do not know how far she loved him...and as you know people can sometimes be absolutely loyal without loving. In certain cases, in fact, loyalty is form of vengeance, of black-mail, of recovering one's self-respect. Loyalty, not love.
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Mary Mackey joins other visionary poets of dpaysement . . . recovering a lost part of herself in the edgy lyricism of the tropics, haunted by fado, forr, and death. The lines are tense with the vulnerability of lovers, strangers, and travelers with no ticket home.
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I hope and pray that mother nature is leaving us alone to get on with the job of cleaning up and recovering from this event.
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Recovering from a gunshot wound is not a vacation. You need to, like, write that on your hand or something.
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You’re recovering from a war, I had said one night. You’re not yourself and won’t be yourself again for a little while longer. The war was being fought internally, of course
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.
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Alcohol is a very patient drug. It will wait for the alcoholic to pick it up one more time.
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Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.
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L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?
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You honor your writing space by recovering, if you are an addict. You honor your writing space by becoming an anxiety expert, a real pro at mindfulness and personal calming. You honor your writing space by affirming that you matter, that your writing life matters, and that your current writing project matters. You honor your writing space by entering it with this mantra: “I am ready to work.” You enter, grow quiet, and vanish into your writing.
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I'm a recovering lawyer. The practice of law has changed. Every agreement is a fight.
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The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.
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Recovering from failure is often easier than building from success.
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Love without trust. The difference between holding a hand and chaining a soul
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When I was younger I felt very disempowered, very disappeared. I felt worthless, like I had no right to exist. I think a good part of my life was spent recovering from that. Pulling myself out of that.
