Recovering Quotes

• I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Two, Addiction, Abuse

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• Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get.

  Judy Collins

  Suicide, Needs, Helping

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• On recovering my senses, I hastened to quit a place where I hoped there was nothing further to detain me. I first filled my pockets with gold, then fastened the strings of the purse round my neck, and concealed it in my bosom.

  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Afterlife, Gold, Purses

  Theodor Storm, Adelbert von Chamisso, Adalbert Stifter (2005). “Famous German Novellas of the 19th Century”, p.42, Mondial

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• I think I have a duty as a recovering guy to help, to make my knowledge of what I went through accessible.

  Charlie Sheen

  Thinking, Guy, Helping

  "Playboy Interview: Charlie Sheen". Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

  Judy Collins

  Depression, Suicide, Meditation

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• I see myself as a recovering journalist.

  Annalena McAfee

  Journalist

  "Annalena McAfee: 'I see myself as a recovering journalist'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2011.

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• I've been unfortunate enough to be working, and recovering from a few injuries now and again.

  Jason Statham

  Injury, Enough, Unfortunate

  Interview with Steve Head, www.ign.com. June 06, 2003.

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  Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Patience, Love Yourself, Recovery

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  No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  Quoted in Vidette-Messenger (Valparaiso, Ind.), 7 June 1941 See Channing 1

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• When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

  Luke Davies

  Recovery, Overcoming Addiction, Alcohol

  "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Liars, Lying, Recovery

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• Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

  Emile Coue

  Positive, Stress, Overcoming Addiction

  De la Suggestion et de Ses Applications (1915)

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• Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspirational, Depression, Patience

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• If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

  Jay Sidhu

  Inspiration, Recovery, Addiction

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• No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

  Barnaby Keeney

  Inspiration, Recovery, Successful

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• The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Travel, Women, Real

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• A little patience, and we shall see the reign of witches pass over, their spells dissolve, and the people, recovering their true sight, restore their government to its true principles.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Government, Sight, People

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.102, Modern Library

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• I am a recovering alcoholic.

  Patrick J. Kennedy

  Alcoholics, Recovering Alcoholics

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Lonely, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet.

  Helen Keller

  Strength, Being Strong, Encouragement

  Helen Keller (1957). “The Open Door”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday

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