Recovery Quotes - Page 6

• I'm always looking for context in which people tell stories. In "Fight Club" it's these support groups for dying people, and then in "Choke" it's 12-step recovery groups. In one novel it's artists' colonies, in another novel it's a diary form that submariners' wives typically keep so that when their husband comes back from serving on a submarine they have an accounting of their spouse's time. So I'm always looking for, number one, a non-fiction context - because you can tell a more outrageous story if you use a non-fiction form.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Husband, Fighting, Artist

  "Chuck Palahnuik On 'Choke'". Interview with Cole Smithey, www.colesmithey.com. September 24, 2008.

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• Don't ever let anyone tell you that history doesn't repeat. For 70 years, liberals have been spinning the yarn that FDR's New Deal, despite all the evidence that it exacerbated and prolonged the Great Depression, quickened our economic recovery. Indeed, I remember scratching my head when one of my college history professors in the 1970s tried to convince us of that theory and its corollary - an even better howler - that FDR was actually a conservative, because if he hadn't implemented his socialist programs, the republic would have died right there.

  David Limbaugh

  College, Convince Us, Years

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• One of the small consolations of old age, if you are lucky, can be at least a partial recovery of innocence.

  Lawrence Fagg

  Age, Lucky, Innocence

  Lawrence W. Fagg (2009). “Pauses: Reflections on Science, Spirituality, and the Fine Art of Living”, p.7, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• I'll give you a simple formula for straightening out the problems of the United States. First, you tax the churches. You take the tax off of capital gains and the tax off of savings. You decriminalize all and tax them same way as you do alcohol. You decriminalize . You make gambling legal. That will put the budget back on the road to recovery, and you'll have plenty of tax revenue coming in for all of your social programs, and to run the army.

  Frank Zappa

  Running, Army, Simple

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• It's my job as President and Congress’s job to maker sure that there’s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we’ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package…

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Independent, People

  "Interview with President Barack Obama". "NBC Today Show" with Matt Lauer, archives.nbclearn.com. February 2, 2009.

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• I felt that if people understood the struggle of recovery, then some of the stigma of addiction might be reduced because the audience would understand in a palpable way that addiction is a disease that tells the afflicted, despite years or even decades of heartbreaking evidence to the contrary, that using will make things better.

  Brian Lindstrom

  Struggle, Years, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I felt like any individual's recovery was more important than the film I was making. And I actually felt that my presence was a form of witness that communicated to the people I was following that their lives mattered.

  Brian Lindstrom

  People, Important, Film

  Source: therumpus.net

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• There are plenty of people who don't want change - the Labour Party, some of their militant trade union friends like Unite busy causing strikes at the very beginning of a fragile recovery.

  George Osborne

  Party, People, Unions

  Source: blog.moneysavingexpert.com

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• Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

  Simon Weston

  Addiction, Problem, Bits

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Since the Second World War, rates of common mental illness (depression and anxiety) have been increasing in the industrialized nations, whereas rates of recovery from severe mental illness have not improved despite the availability of apparently effective therapies such as antipsychotic drugs.

  Richard Bentall

  War, Availability, Anxiety

  Source: www.psychologytoday.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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• 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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• I've failed so many times in my life that my recovery time has improved. I'm better at redirecting my attention. I've trained in Radical Aliveness and Core Energetics over the past couple of years and that has allowed me to see how much we project our failures onto others. It has taught me to accept myself. There is real power in owning your truth.

  Damon Runyon

  Couple, Real, Past

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• With my recovery programme, I have to do a daily inventory of how my day has been. I am terribly dyslexic and have attention deficit disorder, so I have to carry a tape recorder everywhere I go.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Tape, Attention, Inventory

  Interview with David Furnish, www.gq-magazine.co.uk. October 2004.

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• The more years I go, the more experience I have, the more that nutrition and eating the right foods is important for recovery and things like that.

  Stephen Curry

  Years, Important, Nutrition

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.

  Mallory Ortberg

  Addiction, Needs, Facts

  "Telltale Hurt" by Mallory Ortberg, www.slate.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I do think that this represents a kind of shift towards myth, a recovery of myth, largely through the popularity of writers like Philip Pullman. Somehow myths have returned as a serious subject. It used to be scorned...really scorned. It was part of a nursery tradition, and it was also rather tainted - but not in an immovable way - by the association with right-wing ideologies after the World Wars.

  Marina Warner

  War, Thinking, Wings

  Source: therumpus.net

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• With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Get Well, Healthy, Morbidity

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no recovery from alcoholism, it is an incurable disease. And it also is a disease that tells you, you don't have a disease.

  Malachy McCourt

  Disease, Incurable Disease, Alcoholism

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• We are all damaged goods in recovery.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Damaged Goods, Goods

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• Disease is a dynamic process. It has a beginning - slow or sudden - develops, reaches in many cases an acme, and ends in recovery or death.

  Henry E. Sigerist

  Disease, Ends, Process

  Civilisation and Disease p. 196. Phoenix Books, New York (1962)

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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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• I was riding my bicycle and I was hit by a Jeep. And the damage that was done to my body was gradually diagnosed, instead of immediately, so the recovery process for me was probably unnecessarily long: It took nearly two years for me to say that I could successfully walk. It was scary. And in a way, when you're faced with something like that, it forces you to change, and very quickly. I think that unconsciously, I felt called to a challenge-a challenge to regain something.

  Melody Gardot

  Thinking, Long, Scary

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

  Barack Obama

  Party, Mean, Giving

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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