Recovery Quotes - Page 3

• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

  Gary Oldman

  Inspirational, Children, Addiction

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• The spiritual journey, the path of recovery and personal growth, is a detoxification process in which we bring up and out the negative beliefs we have carried with us from the past and that now poison the present.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Past, Journey

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “A Woman's Worth”, p.41, Ballantine Books

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• If you only walk on sunny days you'll never reach your destination.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from May 16, 2011

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• Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

  Epictetus

  Fighting, Over You, Despair

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.354

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• You will never win if you never begin.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Motivational, New Beginnings, Winning

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• Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Real, Rooms, Real Me

  Jenni Schaefer (2003). “Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Character is much easier kept than recovered.

  Thomas Paine

  Life, Integrity, War

  Thomas Paine (1819). “The American Crisis”, p.190

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  My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

  Bono

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

  "Bono Bites Back". Interview with Adam Block, www.motherjones.com. May 1, 1989.

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• You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Positive, Faith

  Mother Jones Magazine, Vol.16, No.3, p.77, May - June 1991.

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• There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

  Bridget of Sweden

  God, Christian, Catholic

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up

  Drake

  Rapper, Rose, Hip Hop

  Song: Furthest Thing, 2013

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  People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.

  Bill Cosby

  Inspirational, Moving On, Forgiveness

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• I don't feel it is right that I'm playing knowing that I'm not 100% and I cannot currently operate at the level I have done in the past. My priority now is to take a break from cricket so that I can focus on my recovery.

  Jonathan Trott

  Past, Knowing, Focus

  "How hard has depression hit cricket?" by Mark Rice-Oxley, www.theguardian.com. November 23, 2013.

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• I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover

  Drake

  Relationship, Happiness, Moving On

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• When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you could n't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that 's just the place and time that the tide'll turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

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• Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.

  Bebe Moore Campbell

  Keys, Soul

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• Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Motivational, Wise, Inspiration

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• There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

  Rob Lowe

  Pain, Past, Light

  Rob Lowe (2014). “Love Life”, p.94, Simon and Schuster

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• Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

  Patrick Carnes

  People, Addiction, Obsession

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• While natural disasters capture headlines and national attention short-term, the work of recovery and rebuilding is long-term.

  Sylvia Mathews Burwell

  Long, Attention, Rebuilding

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• A strong body listens. It obeys. A weak body commands. If your body is weak it tells you what to do. If your body is strong it'll actually listen to you when you tell it to do something. If you build it right you can overcome some of the obstacles of age and recovery.

  Andre Agassi

  Strong, Age, Overcoming

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• The hardest thing you can do is smile when you are ill, in pain, or depressed. But this no-cost remedy is a necessary first half-step if you are to start on the road to recovery.

  Allen Klein

  Smile, Broken Heart, Pain

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• The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.

  Thomas Frank

  Jobs, Cities, Administration

  John Summers, Chris Lehmann, Thomas Frank (2014). “No Future for You: Salvos from the Baffler”, p.110, MIT Press

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• Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Addiction, Ascent, Easy

  Mahatma Gandhi (1984). “Collected Works”

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