Recovery Quotes - Page 5

• I'm learning how to taste everything.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Taste

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• We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Addiction, Moments, Lifetime

  Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

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• If we can have record high unemployment, record job loss, and just an absolutely anemic economic recovery because of Obama's policies, and he's not blamed for it, what makes anybody think he's gonna get blamed when an insurance company starts doubling their premiums?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Jobs, Loss, Thinking

  "Obama Lied, Your Health Insurance Died". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. September 13, 2013.

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• For people that are in recovery, you really need to stick by your boundaries. It's hard because you're sharing this space and this experience with other people who might not need to do those things for themselves.

  Patty Schemel

  Space, People, Might

  Source: collider.com

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• In our recovery package we put new standards of accountability and transparency, which we hope will now apply.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Accountability, Standards, Transparency

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• I think we need to educate our doctors about addiction.

  Matthew Perry

  Thinking, Doctors, Addiction

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• But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

  Rick Perry

  Jobs, African American, Unemployed

  "Texas Gov. Rick Perry Announces Presidential Bid". www.realclearpolitics.com. August 13, 2011.

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• As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.

  Jim Ramstad

  Addiction, Funny Sarcastic, Alcohol

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• When you feel that you have reached the end and that you cannot go one step further, when life seems to be drained of all purpose: What a wonderful opportunity to start all over again, to turn over a new page.

  Eileen Caddy

  Motivational, Positive, New Beginnings

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• This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

  J.R. Ward

  Female, Moments, Awake

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.378, Penguin

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• Whether you sniff it smoke it eat it or shove it up your ass the result is the same: addiction.

  William S. Burroughs

  Addiction, Alcohol, Ass

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• Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Self Esteem

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2014

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• A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

  Vera Nazarian

  Self Esteem, Glasses, Broken

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• All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Mother, Receiving, Care

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• I thought, “I want to die. I want to die more than ever before. There’s no chance now of a recovery. No matter what sort of thing I do, no matter what I do, it’s sure to be a failure, just a final coating applied to my shame. That dream of going on bicycles to see a waterfall framed in summer leaves—it was not for the likes of me. All that can happen now is that one foul, humiliating sin will be piled on another, and my sufferings will become only the more acute. I want to die. I must die. Living itself is the source of sin.

  Osamu Dazai

  Summer, Dream, Suffering

  Osamu Dazai (1973). “No Longer Human”, p.163, New Directions Publishing

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• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Thinking, Play

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1830, Penguin

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• History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Strength, Grief

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

  Marian Keyes

  Real, Addiction, Important

  Marian Keyes (2005). “Rachel's Holiday”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill.

  Rumi

  Get Well, Fall, Healing

  Rumi (2018). “The Spiritual Poems of Rumi”, p.39, Wellfleet

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• And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

  Winston Churchill

  Years, Cups, Firsts

  Winston Churchill (1986). “The Gathering Storm”, p.294, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

  Edward Burgess Butler

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

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• Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Impact, Trying

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