Recovery Quotes - Page 26

• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Tired, Health, Sick World

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Get off the cross, we need the wood.

  Tori Amos

  Jesus, Needs, Woods

  Song: Big Wheel, Album: American Doll Posse, 2007

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• Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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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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• You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

  Dan Millman

  Inspirational, Depression, Anxious Thoughts

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• Do not let your fire go out.

  Ayn Rand

  Fire, Overcoming Addiction, Sobriety

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

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• Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  Bill Cosby

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

  Samuel L. Jackson

  Daughter, Names, Wife

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be done.

  Dan Millman

  Tasks, Done, Littles

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• But still, like air, I'll rise

  Maya Angelou

  Air, Backstabbing, Kill Me

  Maya Angelou (2011). “And Still I Rise: A Book of Poems”, p.47, Random House

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• When the student is ready the teacher will appear.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Education, Wisdom

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• Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

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• The more these readjustments are delayed ... the longer the depression will have to last, and the longer complete recovery is postponed.

  Murray Rothbard

  Liberty, Lasts, Economics

  Murray N. Rothbard (2009). “Man, Economy, and State, Scholar's Edition”, p.1001, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

  Carrie Fisher

  Addiction, Heaven, Sometimes

  "Wishful Drinking". Book by Carrie Fisher, ew.com. December 2, 2008.

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• If things go wrong, don't go with them.

  Roger Babson

  Life, Motivational, Addiction

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  As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Katharine Hepburn (1992). “Me: Stories of My Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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• I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.

  Annie Dillard

  New Beginnings, Addiction, New Day New Beginning

  Annie Dillard (2011). “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek”, p.4, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.

  Natalie Goldberg

  Strong, Real, New Beginnings

  Natalie Goldberg (2016). “Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit.

  David Ryan

  Long, Addiction, Enough

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• I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.

  Edward Gibbon

  Taken, Future, Pride

  'Memoirs of My Life' (1796) ch. 8 (on the completion of 'Decline and Fall')

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• Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.

  Florence Nightingale

  Healing, Mean, Color

  "Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not".

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• Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.

  George Vaillant

  Lost Love, Grieving, Past

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• If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

  Michael Elmore-Meegan

  Wall, Wings, Anorexia

  "All Will be Well". Book by Michael Meegan, 2004.

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• If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

  Vavasor Powell

  Prayer, Temptation, Sin

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