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"Slowly, with many lost days, I come back to life."
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"Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered."
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"One of the first actions we take at Passages is to ruthlessly scrutinize, always under a doctor's supervision and care, the specific necessity of any mind - altering or mood - altering medications that our clients are taking. As soon as any non essential drugs are out of their systems, the feelings they were trying to suppress usually emerge. When that happens, we can see what symptoms the client was masking with drugs or alcohol."
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"Somewhere in the sun-washed space between Southern California's hills of sand and the present desolate volcanic sprawl I was crossing, my legs had strengthened, but " invisibly " so had my will. The wisdom of my body had cultivated vibrantly since those sadness-drunken months after the rape when I'd felt so numbed by the hurt and shame that I didn't move further. No longer."
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"It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it."
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"I found the prospect daunting, but somehow comforting, too, because the counselors insisted it could be done, and, after all, many of them were recovering alcoholics themselves."
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"As with our colleges, so with a hundred 'modern improvements;' there is an illusion about them; there is not always a positive advance. The devil goes on exacting compound interest to the last for his early share and numerous succeeding investments in them. Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which it was already but too easy to arrive at..."
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"I did not find my way out of the darkness until I admitted I was lost."
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"Perhaps that's the best way to recover, to return to the way things were before as quickly as we can. We won the Great Battle, so nothing needs to change."
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"I mean, okay, let's say we're all going to get better. Let's just pretend we will. Fine. Where are we going to go after we get better? What are we going to do with all of our newfound healthy behaviors? Back out into the world that screwed us up and screwed us over. This does not sound promising."
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"That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place."
Change
"Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error."
Mistake
"True nobility is exempt from fear."
Fear
"It is the nature of every person to error, but only the fool perseveres in error."
Nature
"Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end."
Age
"The safety of the people shall be the highest law."
People
"The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed."
Peace
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
Advice
"In time of war the laws are silent."
Time
"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age."
Age
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