Recovery Quote by Kris Kidd Download Open image ““I’m not bilingual, but I am fluent in therapists’ jargon.”” — Kris Kidd ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Recovery Therapy
“For me, therapy is partly translation therapy, the talking cure a second-language cure. My going to a shrink is, among other things, a rite… — Eva Hoffman Copy Share Image
That's what I mean by being bilingual: comfortable in your skin, comfortable with all parts of who you are. — Henry Louis Gates Copy Share Image
“Therapists. Always asking the same questions over and over in slightly different ways. They are, like, the Ultimate Thesauruses.” — Corey Ann Haydu Copy Share Image
“A person can speak many languages and still struggle to say what they feel.” — Yurii Ivchenko Copy Share Image
“All I require of a translator is that he or she be a more gifted writer than I am, and in at least two… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Being bilingual is like having a wife and a mistress. One can never be sure of either. — Natalie Clifford Barney Copy Share Image
“Just because someone doesn’t have a grasp of English doesn’t mean they don’t have a grasp on disparagement.” — Finn Murphy Copy Share Image
“The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.” — Joe Queenan Copy Share Image
The idyllic mayhem of two cultures colliding just doesn't seem as funny anymore. — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“There is stability in self-destruction, in prolonging sadness as a means of escaping abstractions like happiness. Rock bottom is a surprisingly comfortable place to… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Two sad eyes and one skanky smile, I practically pulse with the promise of promiscuity. I'm easy to catch, but too slippery to hold… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Dead Prez is playing on the car’s stereo, telling me that it’s bigger than Hip-Hop, but I beg to differ.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“I drink Coke-zero while I score coke from an honors student in Huntington Beach.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“There's a weight in the room now, a remembrance of childhood. It sinks like a stone, or a heart, or my weight on a… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“...stars are dying all the time. Some explode. Some collapse and cave in on themselves. Those ones become black holes. Others get sucked up… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“The homeless dudes on Alameda all have legs any runway model would kill for, and sometimes I think of giving them money, but— I… — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“I’ll see my nakedness as an advantage, attempt use my body as leverage. That will work for a little while.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
“Repression is dangerous. It makes anvils of memories and drops them from impossible heights when you least expect it.” — Kris Kidd Copy Share Image
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self. — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Rigid traditions capture souls prisons of spiritual thought man’s religion has captured a god grown too small and very weak.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
“Good morning,” one of the soldiers said. “I’m Captain Joseph Walker and this is Sergeant James Vanetten. We are members of the One-Hundred-and-First Airborne… — Shafter Bailey Copy Share Image
“The sole reason I stand to open it up now is that lots of people who are in pain just like I was, and… — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
“My brother trolled recovery and support groups, searching for women with dependency issues, the way I frequented bookstores with the hope of finding a… — Richard J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard.… — Jerry Spinelli Copy Share Image
Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking… — John Bradshaw Copy Share Image
Efforts to ease regulations and reform the nation's tax system have helped put this self-sustaining recovery on track, The numbers prove our policies have… — Shinzo Abe Copy Share Image
“Self care is any action you purposefully take to improve your physical, emotional or spiritual well being. Too often, we do not make time… — Eleanor Brownn Copy Share Image
Memoirs are going to be problematic sells for a while, though, because even if memoir means "based in memory," right now, in the collective… — Debra Monroe Copy Share Image
“Only then can I fly. Only then can I be free - when I let go of me.” — David W Earle Copy Share Image
