Recovery Quotes - Page 11

• The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous.

  Calvin Johnson

  Volunteer, Support, Effort

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• Mr. Vice President, the most fiscally conservative thing this government has ever done, is to invest massively in the green part of the recovery. Because those green dollars are the hardest working dollars in the history of American politics. That same dollar that is being used to cut energy bills, is also cutting global warming gas emissions, is also cutting unemployment, is also cutting poverty, through retrofits it's also raising the value of homes, is also by cleaning the air, cutting asthma rates.

  Van Jones

  Home, Cutting, Government

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• It is when our budding hopes are nipped beyond recovery by some rough wind, that we are the most disposed to picture to ourselves what flowers they might have borne, if they had flourished . . .

  Charles Dickens

  Get Well, Flower, Wind

  Charles Dickens (1859). “Dombey and Son”, p.142

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• He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Get Well, Past, Mad

  Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1855). “The History of Don Quixote de la Mancha: With Illus. by Schoff”, p.234

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• A plane is a bad place for an all-out sleep, but a good place to begin rest and recovery from the trip to the faraway places you've been, a decompression chamber between Here and There. Though a plane is not the ideal place really to think, to reassess or reevaluate things, it is a great place to have the illusion of doing so, and often the illusion will suffice.

  Shana Alexander

  Get Well, Sleep, Thinking

  Shana Alexander (1970). “The feminine eye”, McCall Pub. Co

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• To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

  William Cowper

  Get Well, Keys, Views

  William Cowper (1851). “The Works of William Cowper: His Life, Letters, and Poems. Now First Completed by the Introduction of Cowper's Private Correspondence”, p.15

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• 'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.

  Len Dawson

  Cancer, Chance, Glands

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• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

  Publilius Syrus

  Success, New Beginnings, Greatness

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• A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Humble, Pride, Catholic

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• Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.

  Antonis Samaras

  Goal, Firsts, Recessions

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• There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the true glory.

  Francis Drake

  New Beginnings, Yield, Addiction

  Dispatch to Sir Francis Walsingham, 17 May 1587, in 'Navy Records Society' vol. 11 (1898) p.134

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• Usually, sprinting is my main source of energy and recovery time because that's how I move.

  Nonito Donaire

  Moving, Energy, Source

  "Nonito Donaire: 95 Percent Right Now, But inside the Ring I Will be 120 Percent". Interview with King J, bleacherreport.com. February 18, 2011.

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• The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Simple, People

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• We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

  Stephen J. Pasierb

  Addiction, Results, Treatment

  "For Young People Addicted to Painkillers, the Path Less Taken — Why?" by Stephen J. Pasierb, A. Thomas McLellan, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 21, 2013.

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• The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

  Phil Valentine

  Addiction, Knows

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• You are in recovery if you say you are.

  Phil Valentine

  Addiction, Ifs

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• The more psychotherapy, the smaller the recovery rate.

  Hans Eysenck

  Rate, Psychotherapy, Inverse

  Hans J. Eysenck, Glenn D. Wilson (2013). “The Experimental Study of Freudian Theories (Psychology Revivals)”, p.370, Routledge

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• Eloquent testimony to the recovery powers of wild animals frequently becomes apparent from the study of skeletons housed in museums.

  Louis Leakey

  Animal, Skeletons, Museums

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• My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

  Martin Sheen

  Accomplishment, Addiction, Drug

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• I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

  Matthew Perry

  Fun, Focus, Sobriety

  "Matthew Perry: the one where Chandler writes a West End play" by Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. February 1, 2016.

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• It's never about the screwup - it's always about the recovery. That's the thing about it... if it comes out a little rare you call it carpaccio. It comes out a little overcooked, you shred it up and put in on a sandwich.

  Tyler Florence

  Sandwiches, Littles, Ifs

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• Important as economic unification is for the recovery of Germany and of Europe, the German people must recognize that the basic cause of their suffering and distress is the war which the Nazi dictatorship brought upon the world.

  James F. Byrnes

  War, Europe, People

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• I look upon a good physician, not so properly as a servant to nature, as one, that is a counsellor and friendly assistant, who, in his patient's body, furthers those motions and other things, that he judges conducive to the welfare and recovery of it; but as to those, that he perceives likely to be hurtful, either by increasing the disease, or otherwise endangering the patient, he thinks it is his part to oppose or hinder, though nature do manifestly enough seem to endeavour the exercising or carrying on those hurtful motions.

  Robert Boyle

  Exercise, Science, Thinking

  Robert Boyle, Edward B. Davis, Michael Hunter (1996). “Robert Boyle: A Free Enquiry Into the Vulgarly Received Notion of Nature”, p.137, Cambridge University Press

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• The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

  Patricia Deegan

  Inspirational, Goal, Becoming

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• If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Addiction, Quitting, Lifetime

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press

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