850 Inspiring Quotes for Recovering Alcoholics (2023)
Updated: Jul 25, 2023
1. “Where there is life there is hope. ”– Ron Grover
2. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. ” – Confucius
3. “Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off.” — Demi Lovato
4. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell
5. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
6. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. ” – Zen proverb
7. Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!
8. “There’s not a drug on Earth that can make life meaningful.” – Sarah Kane
9. ” I can’t promise that in our relationship you won’t face any problems, but I surely can promise that you won’t face them alone! ” – Rose Hathway
10. “I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.”- Anonymous
11. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” – Michael Jordan
12. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future. ” —Deepak Chopra
13. “Success is the Sum of Small Efforts, Repeated Day In and Day Out” – Robert Collier
14. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” — Audrey Hepburn
15. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will. ” — Mahatma Gandhi
16. “Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn’t end there. ” – Bucky Sinister
17. “When your heart is breaking for someone who is broken, but your words can’t reach them, ask the angels to go where you cannot. To whisper into their heart that their ears can’t hear: “We will not give up on you. Don’t give up on yourself.”
18. “Happiness is not to be found at the bottom of a bottle or from the tip of a needle; it is not to be found admist a cloud of smoke or within a sugar-coated pill. If you look for it in these places, you will find naught but despair.”
19. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” – Henry Ford
20. “It’s simple, not necessarily easy but the rewards are endless.”
21. “She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.”
22. “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.” – Oscar Wild
23. “Too much of a good thing is toxic. ”― Aysha Taryam
24. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
25. “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely ” change is due to wanting power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.”- George Sheehan
26. “Loving an addicted child is like grieving his death and fighting for his life at the same time”. All while hated, helpless, and alone.”- Anonymous
27. I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring. – David Bowie
28. “The roots of addiction can be seen in our search for happiness in something outside of our self, be it drugs, relationships, material possessions. ” ― Lee L Jampolsky
29. “You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.”- Anonymous
30. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
31. “Addiction is a disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc you created or care about the people whose lives you have shattered.”
32. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.”
33. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.” – Anonymous
34. “Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.” – Shigenori Kameoka
35. “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.”
36. “Addiction denied is recovery delayed. ”― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
37. “Failure is a detour, not a dead-end street. ” — Zig Ziglar
38. “Before you can break out of prison, you must realise you are locked up. ”– Anonymous
39. “Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, ‘I’m possible!’” – Audrey Hepburn
40. “When you arise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” ―Marcus Aurelius
41. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
42. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top. ” – Unknown
43. “Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.”- Anonymous
44. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.” – Unknown
45. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
46. “No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions. ” — Patrick J. Kennedy
47. “Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. ” – Steven Alder
48. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” – Albert Einstein
49. “The best way out is always through.” — Robert Frost
50. “My favorite six words in Recovery are: trust God, clean house and help others.” — Matthew Perry
51. “You’re doing incredible work. Don’t give up!”
52. “It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.”
53. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. ” – Vincent Van Gogh
54. ‘There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before. ’
55. ‘Everyone wants happiness. No one wants pain. But you cant have a rainbow without a little rain’
56. “What do I want for my future? What am I currently doing to achieve that? How do I feel about what I’m currently doing?”
57. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
58. “My favorite six words in recovery are: trust God, clean house, and help others.” — Matthew Perry
59. “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown. ” – Chinese proverb
60. “When you can stop, you don't want to. And when you want to stop, you can't. That's addiction.”
61. “You don’t develop courage by being happy in your relationships daily. You develop it by surviving difficult times and challenging adversity.” – Epicurus
62. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. ” — Henry Ford
63. “Someone once told me, ‘I heard you finally got rid of your addiction.’ I smiled and said, ‘No, addiction doesn’t work like that. Once you have it, you will always have it. I just choose not to feed it.”- Anonymous
64. ‘Sometimes when in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, when actually you’ve been planted. ’ – Christine Caine
65. “Every worth act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. ” — Mahatma Gandhi
66. “From the fool and the drunkard you may learn the truth.” — Modern Greek proverb
67. If you find yourself in a hole, the first thing to do is stop digging. – Anonymous
68. “As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.”
69. “First the man takes a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes a man.”
70. “The worst part about anything that’s self-destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.” -Lacey L.
71. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.”Nobody ever said getting clean was easy, and it takes discipline to maintain it long-term. And while the uphill climb may seem impossible at first, the end result is one of the most rewarding accomplishments you’ll ever experience. The reward is regaining your life and reaching your true potential, making the hard work at the beginning totally worth it.
72. “The worst part about anything that’s self-destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.”
73. “Not having the best situation, but seeing the best in your situation is the key to happiness.” (Marie Forleo)
74. “Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov
75. “It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with.” — Fergie
76. “If you’re not moving away from a drink, then you’re moving closer to it”
77. “It is 10 years since I used drugs or alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships, and, generally, a bright outlook… The price of this is constant vigilance because the disease of addiction is not rational.” – Russell Brand
78. “Drugs are just for those who cannot accept or handle reality.”
79. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. “– Jon Kabat-Zinn
80. “I got a message, a little thought, that said, ‘Do you want to live or die?’ I said I wanted to live. And suddenly the relief came and my life has been amazing.” (Anthony Hopkins)
81. “I finally summoned up the courage to say three words that would change my life: “I need help.” Thank you to all the selfless people who have helped me on my journey through sobriety. I am eternally grateful.”
82. “Recovery is not a race. You don't have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.”
83. “I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone. On the other hand, when I got drunk I screamed, went crazy, got all out of hand. One kind of behavior didn’t fit the other. I didn’t care.”
84. “When you can stop, you don’t want to. And when you want to stop, you can’t. That’s addiction.”- Anonymous
85. “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” ~Ayn Rand
86. “You wanna get drunk? Get drunk with an idea, not with alcohol. Get drunk with alcohol, you ruin your life. Get drunk with an idea, you enhance your life.”
87. “You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing to fight.”
88. “It’s okay to bleed on someone who didn’t cut you. Don’t wait until you’re scarred over to ask for help. Healing starts when the wound is still new. ” ― Toni Sorenson
89. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.”- Anonymous
90. “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
91. “The Most Common Way People Give Up Their Power is by Thinking They Don’t Have Any” – Alice Walker
92. “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem.” – Kurt Cobain on the futility of substance abuse.
93. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” – Vincent Van Gogh
94. ‘You’re not going to master the rest of your life in one day. Just relax. Master the day. Then just keep doing that every day’
95. “It is only through one's own efforts to turn toward life on its own terms and to develop a wiser relationship to what's there through mindfulness and compassion that make freedom from addictive patterns possible.” (Noah Levine)
96. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s a rat in a maze. ” — Tess Callahan
97. “My recovery depends on who God is, not who I am.”
98. “Never. We never lose our loved ones. They accompany us; they don’t disappear from our lives. We are merely in different rooms.” – Paulo Coelho
99. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” — Japanese Proverb
100. “It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.”
101. I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them
102. “The Big Book’s chapter We Agnostics draws a line in the sand: God either is or He isn’t. What was our choice to be (Alcoholics Anonymous, 53)? Nature abhors a vacuum and a state of nothing can’t exist in either the material or spiritual world. This kind of binary thinking made sense in the autocratic world of 1939. But in a democratic, pluralist society, all-or-nothing thinking is a cognitive distortion—a philosophical assumption that everything is right or wrong, good or evil, superior or inferior. In this millennium, people can hold opposing views and be equals in the same community. Our Traditions, lovingly and tolerantly, make room for more than one truth. That’s a good thing, because the only problem with the truth is that there are so many versions of it.”
103. “Not until we are lost we begin to find ourselves.” ~Henry David Thoreau
104. “The priority of any addict is to anaesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.” — Russell Brand
105. “Each of us has a unique part to play in the healing of the world. ” – Marianne Williamson
106. “How important is it?”
107. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr. Phil McGraw
108. “If you can’t be available for the basic necessity of being there for your children, then something really needs to shift. It was that next day that I said, ‘All right. It’s time. Let’s give this a shot.’ And then a month went by, a couple months went by, I’m [like], ‘Alright. This feels good. This feels good.'”
109. “No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” (Robin Williams as John Keating in Dead Poets Society)
110. “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
111. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.” — Margaret Thatcher
112. “You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it. ” — Margaret Thatcher
113. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. ’” – Muhammad Ali
114. I know you’re tired, I know you feel like giving up, but you’re not going to. You know why? Because you are strong, and when you’re survived through all the shit your addiction has but you through, you can survive recovery
115. “Addiction, the daily grind, the pressure and judgment we face, from both inside and out, wear us down and make us forget that it’s possible to truly love our life. ” — Adi Jaffe
116. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
117. “Opportunities multiply as they are seized. ” – Sun Tzu
118. “The best way out is always through. ” – Robert Frost
119. I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk. ” ― Craig Ferguson
120. “If it wasn’t for that rehab center, I probably wouldn’t have been here. In terms of recovery, it has been very important for me to be a part of a recovery community, to actively be around my people because they understand me. They get it.” – Macklemore
121. “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop” – Confucius
122. “Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
123. “Recovery is about progression, not perfection.”- Anonymous
124. “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.”
125. “Addictions … started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn’t seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life-decisions. And they were… less intelligent than goldfish. ” – William Gibson
126. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.” – Tess Callahan
127. ‘Cause sometimes you just feel tired. Feel weak, and you want to give up when you feel weak. But you gotta search within yourself. You have gotta find that inner strength. And just pull it out of you, and get that motivation not to give up, and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face.’ – Eminem
128. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” — Babe Ruth
129. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Robert Downey Jr.
130. “Never take life for granted. Savor every sunrise, because no one is promised tomorrow…or even the rest of today.” ― Eleanor Brownn
131. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
132. “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself.” – Theodore T. Hunger
133. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
134. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. ” – Carl Bard
135. “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways – either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.” – Dalai Lama
136. “Every time I draw a clean breath, I’m like a fish out of water.”
137. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. “
138. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step.” -Naeem Callaway
139. “Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.” – Brittany Burgunder
140. “It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing? Would Great Ormond Street be so attractive a cause if its beds were riddled with obnoxious little criminals that had “brought it on themselves?”
141. “Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places”
142. “I realized I only had two choices: I was either going to die, or I was going to live, and which one did I want to do? And then I said, ‘I’ll get help,’ or, ‘I need help. I’ll get help.’ And my life turned around. Ridiculous for a human being to take 16 years to say, ‘I need help.’” – Sir Elton John
143. “Never underestimate a recovering addict. We fight for our lives every day in ways most people will never understand. ” — Unknown
144. “After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world.” — Oscar Wilde, on absinthe
145. “Your addiction rate will go up if you have gambling in this area. ” ― John Warren Kindt
146. “You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again.” — Unknown
147. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” — Helen Keller
148. “Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.” – Toni Sorenson
149. “Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it. ” — Joseph Conrad
150. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” — Carl Bard
151. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery. ”—Demi Lovato
152. “When you rise in the morning, think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love …” ―Marcus Aurelius
153. “Once I was clear-headed, and I hadn’t been clear-headed in so long, I was like, I can never go back. And I’m still thankful. ” – Travis Barker
154. “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.” – Charlotte Whitton
155. “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down. ” – Mary Pickford
156. “Alcohol gives you endless patience for stupidity.”
157. “Overdose awareness is important to save our today and our tomorrow.”
158. ‘You don’t have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step’ – Martin Luther King
159. “When we lose someone we love we must learn not to live without them, but to live with the love they left behind.” – Anonymous
160. “People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs, they are addicted to escaping reality.”
161. “Recovery is about progression, not perfection.” – Unknown
162. “Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.”
163. “As we go through the day we pause, when agitated or doubtful, and ask for the right thought or action.”
164. “May I always remember that the power within me is far greater than any fear before me. May I always have patience, for I am on the right road.”
165. “Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.” – Dr. Seuss
166. “I didn’t even know I was addicted until I tried to stop.” — Unknown
167. “The problem of alcohol is, it’s just too easy. It’s everywhere. At least hard drugs, you have to have a dealer. All I know is, I could feel its presence in an ominous, daunting way that was preventing me from being my higher self.”
168. “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely “¦ change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now. ”– George Sheehan
169. The best way out is always through. – Robert Frost
170. “Change your thoughts, change your life.” ~Lao Tzu
171. “I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it getting high because it’s wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work.” – Anthony Kiedis
172. “The priority of any addict is to anesthetize the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief. ” — Russell Brand
174. “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending. ” – Chico Xavier
175. Recovery is an ongoing process, for both the addict and his or her family. In recovery, there is hope. And hope is a wonderful thing. – Dean Dauphinais
176. “You must do the things you think you cannot do.” — Eleanor Roosevelt
177. “If no sober day was wasted, then nobody could take one from her. Even if today brought a slip, the total would stay the same. All that would happen wag that she would not be adding to it. It was like money in the bank. If you missed a deposit, that didn't mean the sum grew smaller.”
178. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Hermann Hesse
179. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” ~Dr. Seuss
180. “Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” — Robert Downey Jr.
181. “The road to recovery is a simple journey for confused people with a complicated disease”
182. “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life.” –Brené Brown
183. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
184. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new. – Socrates
185. “It is the wine that leads me on, the wild wine that sets the wisest man to sing at the top of his lungs, laugh like a fool — it drives the man to dancing… it even tempts him to blurt out stories better never told.” — Homer, The Odyssey
186. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change. ” – Jamie Lee Curtis
187. “Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow. ” – Susan McMahon
188. “Every recovery from alcoholism began with one sober hour”
189. “Do not take an overdose, whether that relates to wisdom, motives, any tricks, or other objects and subjects that bring you down to only humiliate you. ” ― Ehsan Sehgal
190. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. ” – Albert Einstein
191. “When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.” – Harriet Beecher Stowe
192. “Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.”- Demi Lovato
193. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part of living. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passed out. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change. Today, as every day of sober living, we have a choice. – Ann D. Clark
194. ‘I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it’
195. “Adapt the remedy to the disease.”
196. “Relax. Breathe. It takes time, but there is a great joy to be had in moments of every day. Just remember, you’re learning new steps, a new dance.” — Lisa Frederiksen
197. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there. ” – Theodore Roosevelt
198. “I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake, and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.”- Samuel L. Jackson
199. “You’re worth it.”
200. “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day, begin the task anew.” – Saint Francis de Sales
201. ‘F-E-A-R has two meanings: “Forget Everything And Run” or “Face Everything And Rise. ” The choice is yours. ‘ – Zig Ziglar
202. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear. ” – Mark Twain
203. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
204. “The more you engage in any type of emotion or behavior, the greater your desire for it will become.”
205. “My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That’s who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size.” – Eric Clapton
206. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ” – Helen Keller,
207. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. ” – George Addair
208. “Talking to a drunk person was like talking to an extremely happy, severely brain-damaged three-year-old.” — John Green, Paper Towns
209. “Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.” ~Zen proverb
210. “I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake, and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.” – Samuel L. Jackson
211. “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient. ”– Steve Maraboli
212. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
213. “I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.” – Anonymous
214. “The greatest step towards a life of recovery is the next one.” – Unknown
215. “You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. You were created to be victorious.” — Joel Osteen
216. ‘If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten’ – Tony Robbins
217. “The greatest mistake to make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. ” – Elbert Hubbard
218. “Cause sometimes you just feel tired. Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength. And just pull it out of you, and get that motivation to not give up, and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face.” – Eminem
219. “You are stronger than you think.”A lot of us think there’s no way we’ll ever be able to give up drugs or alcohol, but we underestimate the strength within ourselves. Sure, the easier route may be to give up and go back to our old ways, but we are fully capable of beating this disease once and for all. All it takes is focus, determination, and hard work.
220. “We treat both addiction and co-occurring disorders and accept many health insurance plans. Take a look at our residential program.”
221. “Nothing changes if nothing changes.”
222. “Every time I draw a clean breath, I’m like a fish out of water.” ― Narcotics Anonymous
223. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”– C.S. Lewis
224. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” – Zen proverb
225. “Do not get drunk! Why hasten your death?”
226. “Change your behaviours and your feelings will follow. ”– Susan McManhon
227. ” At the end of the day, you can either focus on what’s tearing you apart or what’s keeping you together. ” – Anonymous
228. “I’ve wanted to feel pleasure to the point of insanity. They call it ‘getting high,’ because it’s wanting to know that higher level, that godlike level. You want to touch the heavens, you want to feel glory and euphoria, but the trick is it takes work.” – Anthony Kiedis
229. “Addicts are addicted to their drugs, and their families are addicted to hope. ” – Fredrik Backman
230. “All deaths are sudden, no matter how gradual the dying may be.” ― Michael McDowell
231. “We either win or we learn. So take the fuck-ups as new ways of getting good information about yourself. ” – Faith G. Harper
232. ” Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. ” – Steve Maraboli
233. “I’ve been sober for 18 years now. It wasn’t like you flick a switch, and you’re sober. It takes a while. You have to learn how to do everything all over again. There is life after addiction, and it’s really good. If I had known, I’d have
234. “Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.” – Mahatma Gandhi
235. I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it
236. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for. ” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
237. The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings. – Henry Ward Beecher
238. It still doesn’t make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions. ” ~ David Sheff
239. “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely … change is due to wanting power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” – George Sheehan
240. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends of being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” – Naeem Callaway
241. “Recovery is hard. Regret is harder. ”– Brittany Burgunder
242. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it. ” – Lou Holtz
243. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. ” – Wayne W. Dyer
244. “The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
245. “Get your loved one the help they need. Our substance use disorder program accepts many health insurance plans, this is our residential program.”
246. “Identify specific and important goals you want to achieve to bring more meaning to your life.”
247. “I dwell in possibility.” – Emily Dickinson
248. “Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with your self-esteem. ” — Kurt Cobain
249. “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.”
250. “Money is an acquired taste. But, once acquired, it becomes an addiction. ” — Helen McCloy
251. “Relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development. ” – Phillipa Perry
252. “My identify shifted when I got into recovery. That’s who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else. It gives me a spiritual anchor.”
253. “It is not I who became addicted. It is my body.” — Jean Cocteau
254. “In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
255. “There is so much to life; my heart breaks watching someone held captive by addiction. ” ― Mike Love
256. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
257. ‘‘If it weren’t for that rehab center, I probably wouldn’t have been here. In terms of recovery, it has been very important for me to be a part of a recovery community and to be around my people because they understand me actively. They get it.” – Macklemore
258. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.” ~Anne Frank
259. “Imagine trying to live without air. Now imagine something worse.” — Amy Reed
260. “I take refuge in the potential of my own recovery, I take refuge in the dharma, I take refuge in the community of fellow recovering addicts.”
261. “That’s all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.” – Ringo Starr
262. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.”
263. “God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.” ~Robert Brault
264. “What is an addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” – Alice Miller
265. “There is a moral stigma to addiction, and it is prospective shame that drives people to resist admitting they have a problem. ” — Olivier Ameisen
266. “The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep telling yourself as to why you can’t achieve it.” – Jordan Belfort
267. “It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it.” – Lou Holtz
268. “The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.”
269. “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and, above all, confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for
270. “Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.”
271. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink. ”– Anonymous
272. The answers are inside if we have a process to be introspective. ” ~ Dr. Herby Bell
273. “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
274. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. ” ~ Anne Lamott
275. “I realized that I only had two choices: I was either going to die or I was going to live, and which one did I want to do? And then I said those words, ‘I’ll get help,’ or, ‘I need help. I’ll get help.’ And my life turned around. Ridiculous for a human being to take 16 years to say, ‘I need help.’” – Sir Elton John
276. “Our wounds are often the openings into the best and most beautiful part of us. ” – David Richo
277. Drugs take you to hell, disguised as heaven. ” – Donald Lyn Frost
278. “Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” – Brian Tracy
279. “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again. ” – Shane Niemeyer
280. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. ”– J. K. Rowling
281. “Where humility had formerly stood for a forced feeding on humble pie, it now begins to mean the nourishing ingredient which can give us serenity.”
282. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”
283. ‘Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die.’ – Stephen King
284. “Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
285. “Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.” – Shannon Perry
286. “No other road, no other way, no day but today. ” – Jonathan Larson
287. “Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ” – Napoleon Bonaparte
288. Believe you can, and you’re halfway there. ” – Theodore Roosevelt
289. “We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely … change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.” – George Sheehan
290. ‘Live less out of habit and more out of intent. ’
291. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ” – Jimmy Dean
292. “Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit. ” — Vince Lombardi
293. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it’s going on when you don’t have strength. ” – Napoleon Bonaparte
294. Common Co-Occurring Disorders
295. “There is no elevator. You have to take the steps.”
296. There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. – Albert Einstein
297. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here now with the power to shape your day and your future. – Steve Maraboli
298. “Recovery: It will be challenging. It will also be worth it. You will relapse, and that’s ok, as long as you keep fighting“
299. “Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.”
300. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. ”– Michael Jordan
301. “I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute. If I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.” – Craig Ferguson
302. “You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again“
303. “Little by little I found the beat again, and after that I found the joy again. I came back to my family with gratitude, and back to my work with relief.”
304. “I’m so proud of you.”
305. “Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.” ~Robert H. Schuller
306. “You are truly inspiring to others who are struggling with addiction.”
307. “The socio-economic impact of gambling addiction is comparable to drug and alcohol addiction. ” ― John Warren
308. “It always seems impossible until it’s done. ”– Nelson Mandela, South African political leader, philanthropist and revolutionary
309. “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” – Hecato
310. “Ask anyone who has been in a love relationship for a while: nothing is perfect.” – Tracy McMillan
311. “When I first started taking prescription pills, I didn’t think I had a problem. I had a good job and lots of friends. After a while though, I lost my job and slowly my friends. The thing is, I barely even noticed or cared. Finally, I got treatment after horrible withdrawals. Now that I am in recovery, I understand how blinding my addiction was.” – Nicole: Registered Nurse
312. “Your Addiction is Not You, But it Feels Like You Because You’ve Spent So Much Intimate Time Together” – Toni Sorenson
313. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.”- Tess Callahan
314. I really mean when I say my biggest fear in early recovery was that I would never have fun again. The beautiful truth is that recovery has given me freedom and the confidence to go out in the world and leave my own mark. – Tom Stoddart
315. ‘One day at a time – The idea of giving up alcohol or drugs for the rest of your life is overwhelming. The good news is that you do not have to do this. You can approach recovery one day at a time. You do not have to worry about what is going to happen tomorrow or next week. You just have to get up each morning and commit to staying sober for the rest of the day – you do nto need to commit to anything more than that. By sticking to one day at a time, the days turn into weeks and the weeks turn into years’
316. “People who have never had an addiction don’t understand how hard it can be.” – Payne Stewart
317. ‘When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways: by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits or using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.’ – Dalai Lama
318. “While all aspects of our life are important, without a balance, you become addicted and like all addictions you lose. ” — Catherine Pulsifer
319. “And that’s what it’s like for me in recovery at times. Afraid to take on responsibility, new sponsees or something, or allowing myself to stand up and shine… I’ve got new tools, I’ve got new hope, new love, new respect for myself.” – James Hetfield
320. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.” — Sade Andria Zabala
321. “Keep steadily before you the fact that all true success depends at last upon yourself. ” – Theodore T. Hunger
322. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
323. “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.” – Mark Twain
324. “If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them that sorrows know how to swim. ” – Ann Landers
325. “Addictions and mental disorders are like a disease, and they need treatment. ” ― Syesha Mercado
326. “Hello fentanyl, goodbye world. ” ― Steven Magee
327. I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was
328. “I can take care of myself!” vs “ There is something bigger than me.”
329. The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink
330. “Fall seven times, stand up eight. ” – Japanese proverb
331. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be afraid you will make one continually.” – Elbert Hubbard
332. “Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
333. “It’s like I have loaded gun in my mouth and I like the taste of metal. The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.”
334. “Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them – every day, begin the task anew. ” – Saint Francis de Sales
335. “I’m so happy to celebrate this moment with you on your journey!”
336. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.”
337. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change.”- Jamie Lee Curtis
338. “Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.” – Bernard Williams
339. “What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” – Alice Miller on the true meaning of drug addiction recovery.
340. ‘When I focus on whats good today, I have a good day. When I focus on whats bad, I have a bad day. If I focus on the problem, the problem increases. If I focus on the answer, the answer increases. ’ – Big book of Alcoholics Anonymous quote
341. “It’s been a learning process, I’m growing. I couldn’t believe that anybody could be naturally happy without being on something. So I would say to anybody, ‘it does get better.’” – Eminem
342. “You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again.”- Anonymous
343. ” When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free. ” – Catherine Ponder
344. “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.” – Robert Downey Jr.
345. “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” – Dr. Martin Luther King Jr
346. “Keep it simple”
347. The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ” – Alice Walker
348. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. ” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
349. “My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work – hard, painful work, but the help is there, in every town and career, drug or drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
350. “Change your behaviors and your feelings will follow.” – Susan McManhon
351. “Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there. ” — Robert Downey Jr
352. “We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain.” — Unknown
353. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference. Thy will, not mine, be done.”
354. “Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn’t end there.” – Bucky Sinister
355. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
356. “The strength to sustain recovery can only come from the addict understanding and defining his circle of influence, from recognising that there are factors over which he can exert authority and control, and from taking responsibility for the outcome of his actions.” (Morteza Khaleghi)
357. “The Power to redefine your life and purpose is in your hands, use it effectively like a wise person. ”― Oche Otorkpa
358. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.” (Zen Proverb)
359. Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside. — Unknown
360. “Everything is impermanent – every pleasure, every pain, every body.”
361. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela
362. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
363. “You is kind. You is smart. You is important.” ~Kathryn Stockett, The Help
364. “If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” – Roger Babson
365. “It’s an addiction… and addiction is something I should know something about. ” — Keith Richards
366. “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi
367. “Unchecked, the three afflictions of anger, anxiety, and addiction collectively undermine your Happy Brain. ” — Dr Jay Kumar
368. “I’ve been in recovery for 23 years and relapsed seven times. But, the support I get in the recovery community has helped me every time I start drinking again. No judgment, just help and support. Without my recovery program, I know I would have drank myself into an early grave every time. Recovery isn’t always easy, but it certainly beats the alternative.” – Bill: Military Veteran
369. “Addiction is not a choice, it’s a disease.” – Unknown
370. “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was. ” – Sade Andria Zabala
371. “That’s the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen. ” – Charles Bukowski
372. “The fact that you woke up this morning is proof that this day has already been predetermined in your favor.” — Russ Kyle
373. “The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.” – Dale Carnegie
374. “Life should be lived daily despite the obstacles we may face. ” – Asa Don Brown
375. “My Recovery must come first so that everything I love in life does not have to come last.” — Unknown
376. “Recovery is an ongoing process, for both the addict and his or her family. In recovery, there is hope. And hope is a wonderful thing.”
377. ‘My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life does not have to come last’
378. “Recovery Is About Progression Not Perfection. ” – Unknown
379. “Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.” – George Ade
380. “Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow.” – Larry Michael Dredla
381. ‘Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life’ – JK Rowlings
382. I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion. ’ – Muhammad Ali
383. “The emotion that can break your heart is sometimes the very one that heals.” – Nicholas Sparks
384. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.” — Henry Ford
385. “A refuge is a safe place, a place of protection – a place that we go in times of need, a shelter.”
386. “I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.” — Winston Churchill
387. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you. ” – Dr. Phil
388. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
389. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
390. “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” — Confucius
391. If you or a loved one is struggling with substance abuse, help is available
392. “Never underestimate a recovering addict. We fight for our lives every day in ways most people will never understand.” — Unknown
393. “I was in my mid-40s. I was a bulimic, and I realized if I continue with this addiction of mine, I will not be able to continue doing my life. The older you get the more damage it does; it takes longer to recover from a binge. And it was very hard.”
394. “Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose. ― Dean Koontz, Forever Odd
395. “The worst part about anything that’s self-destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive. ” -Lacey L
396. “A shot to kill the pain. A pill to drain the shame. A purge to end the gain. A cut to break the vein. A smoke to ease the craving. A drink to win the game. An addiction is an addiction because it all hurts the same.” – Unknown
397. “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind. ”– Anne Fletcher
398. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” — Henry Ford
399. “If you try to shut down your angel guidance, that’s the path to feeling unhappy and results in addiction. ” ― Doreen Virtue
400. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny. ” – C. S. Lewis
401. “Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person paranoid, violent, and aggressive – making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe, more importantly, meth users threaten their children and families.” – Dirk Kempthorne
402. “Difficult relationships come into our lives for a reason. No one would choose them, certainly. But if we let them, they can teach us how to be flexible with others and more forgiving.” – Joan Bauer
403. “You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing to fight.”- Anonymous
404. “There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.“
405. “Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.”
406. “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. ” – Charlotte Brontë
407. “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.” – Shane Niemeyer
408. “You’ve grown to become such a confident and strong person.”
409. “Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom.”
410. “Recovery isn’t always easy, but it certainly beats the alternative. ”– Anonymous
411. “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power.” ~Jim Morrison
412. “Addiction makes you blind to your reality.”- Anonymous
413. “A man who drinks too much on occasion is still the same man as he was sober. An alcoholic, a real alcoholic, is not the same man at all. You can’t predict anything about him for sure except that he will be someone you never met before.”
414. “It is 10 years since I used drugs or alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and, generally, a bright outlook… The price of this is constant vigilance because the disease of addiction is not rational.” – Russell Brand
415. “I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. ” — Gene Tierney
416. “With true friends…even water drunk together is sweet enough.”
417. “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 J. Jackson
418. “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” — George Chakiris
419. “Even in the midst of devastation, something within us always points the way to freedom. ”– Sharon Salzberg
420. “I used to think a drug addict was someone who lived on the far edges of society. Wild-eyed, shaven headed and living in a filthy squat. That was until I became one…” — Cathryn Kemp
421. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
422. “Recovery is something you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off. ” — Demi Lovato
423. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking.” – Buddhist Proverb
424. “Sometimes, we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.”– Shane Niemeyer
425. “Amid winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
426. “Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
427. “Obstacles are those frightening things that become visible when we take our eyes off our goals. ” – Henry Ford
428. “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” (Mahatma Gandhi)
429. “A real relationship is like a river; the deeper it gets, the less noise it makes.” – Tony Gaskins
430. “The best way out is always through.” – Robert Frost
431. You cannot solve a problem from the same consciousness that created it. You must learn to see the world anew. – Albert Einstein
432. “She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. ” – Ellen Burstyn
433. “I am one drug away from never being clean again for the rest of my life.”
434. Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. – Confucius
435. “A compassionate approach leads to less addiction.” — Johann Hari
436. “It’s not the drugs that make a drug addict. It’s the need to escape reality.” — Unknown
437. “Additions started out like magical pets, pocket monsters. They did extraordinary tricks, showed you things you hadn’t seen, were fun. But came, through some gradual dire alchemy, to make decisions for you. Eventually, they were making your most crucial life decisions. And they were less intelligent than goldfish.” — William Gibson
438. If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. – Vincent Van Gogh
439. “There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They are messengers of overwhelming grief…and unspeakable love.”– Washington Irving
440. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy; I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. ” – Art Williams
441. “Addiction brings apathy. Break the apathy, and you break the addiction. ”― Mango Wodzak
442. “Alcohol is often the last refuge of a beaten people. In that fiery liquid, any honour in defeat vanishes, and, in the eyes of the enemy, they become the pathetic, caricatured wretches they sought to make them from the beginning.”
443. “I really mean when I say my biggest fear in early recovery was that I would never have fun again. The beautiful truth is that recovery has given me freedom and the confidence to go out in the world and leave my own mark.”- Tom Stoddart
444. “Once I was clear-headed and hadn’t been clear-headed in so long, I was like, I can never go back. And I’m still thankful.” – Travis Barker
445. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery. ”– Demi Lovato
446. “If today is your past come tomorrow, then make your past your future of today. ”― Darrel Loyd
447. “The only journey is the one within.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
448. My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn't have to come last
449. “Ya think whiskey tastes good? Try a big cup of sobriety -- now that’s the good stuff!”
450. “Addiction is a monster; it lives inside, and feeds off of you, takes from you, controls you, and destroys you. It is a beast that tears you apart, rips out your soul, and laughs at your weakness. It is a stone wall that stands to keep you in and the rest out. It is a shadow that always lurks behind you, waiting to strike. Addiction lives in everyone’s mind, sitting, staring, waiting…”- Anonymous
451. “I am so happy you’re doing well.”
452. “No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out. ”– Jeanette LeBlanc
453. “You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.”– Jean Church
454. Our greatest glory consists not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fall. ”- Oliver Goldsmith
455. “I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.”
456. “First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
457. “An honest regret for harms done, a genuine gratitude for blessings received, and a willingness to try for better things tomorrow will be the permanent assets we shall seek.”
458. “If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them.”—James O’Barr
459. “I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.”
460. “Always do sober what you said you’d do when you were drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut!” — Ernest Hemingway
461. “We honor ourselves when we speak out for recovery. We show the world that recovery matters because it brings hope and peace into the lives of individuals and their loved ones.” – Beth Wilson
462. “I think that the power is in the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey Jr.
463. “Every day is a new day. No need to dwell on the past. Look straight ahead. ” – Saint Charlotte
464. “At every stage, addiction is driven by one of the most powerful, mysterious, and vital forces of human existence. What drives addiction is longing — a longing not just of brain, belly or loin, but finally of the heart.” — Cornelius Platinga
465. “You can’t defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you. ”– Seth Adam Smith
466. ‘I chose sober because I wanted a better life. I stay sober because I got one’
467. “As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them.” — Robin Williams, Weapons of Self-Destruction
468. “I have no pleasure in the stimulants I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in pursuing pleasure that I have periled life, reputation, and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
469. “As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.” – Katharine Hepburn
470. “The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the person perfected without trials. ” – Chinese proverb
471. “Of course motivation is not permanent. But then, neither is bathing; but it is something you should do on a regular basis. ” – Zig Ziglar
472. “She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings. ” – Ellen Burstyn, American actress
473. “Understanding the difference between healthy striving and perfectionism is critical to laying down the shield and picking up your life. ” – Brené Brown
474. “You are not an alcoholic or an addict. You are not incurably diseased. You have merely become dependent on substances or addictive behavior to cope with underlying conditions that you are now going to heal, at which time your dependency will cease completely and forever.”
475. Recovery is about progression not perfection
476. “Staying sober really was the most important thing in my life now and had given me direction when I thought I had none.”
477. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop. ” – Confucius
478. “Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.”
479. “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.” — Muhammad Ali
480. “It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.” ~J.K. Rowling
481. “Recovery is something you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.” — Demi Lovato
482. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson
483. “I think that power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey, Jr.
484. “When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say.”
485. “Let go and let God.”
486. “I like liquor — its tastes and effects — and that is just the reason why I’ll never drink it.” – Stonewall Jackson
487. “It’s never too lateto be what you might have been.” ~George Eliot
488. “I really mean when I say my biggest fear in early recovery was that I would never have fun again. The beautiful truth is that recovery has given me freedom and the confidence to go out in the world and leave my own mark. ” – Tom Stoddart
489. “What is an addiction? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” – Alice Miller
490. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy; I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it.” – Art Williams
491. “We try to be of service to others whenever possible, using our time, energy, and resources to help create positive change.”
492. “Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You’re like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you’ll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal.” – Ann Clendening
493. ‘Sobriety was the best gift I ever gave myself ‘ – Rob Lowe
494. “Help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide.” – Jamie Lee Curtis
495. “Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.” — Tess Callahan
496. “Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.” Take a look at our inpatient program.
497. “You’re worth it.”Many of us suffer from low self-esteem, which, in turn, perpetuates the cycle of addiction. But struggling with an addiction doesn’t mean we’re incapable, weak, or unworthy. And it certainly doesn’t mean we can’t change our lives around and move past the disease that has been holding us back. We are all worthy of being happy and of living our lives to the fullest. Embrace your worth as a human being and never settle for anything less than the healthy, happy, and sober life you deserve.
498. “Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.”
499. “Recovery is taking all twelve steps…over and over and over and over…” – Toni Sorenson
500. “We accept many health insurance plans. Get your life back in order, take a look at our residential program.”
501. “Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you–it’s the cage you live in. ” — Johann Hari
502. Gratitude always comes into play; research shows that people are happier if they are grateful for the positive things in their lives, rather than worrying about what might be missing. – Dan Buettner
503. “I don’t think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that remains.”- Anne Frank
504. “What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.”
505. “There are people who are addicted to sadness the way others are addicted to coffee or cigarettes. ”― Marty Rubin
506. “Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change. ”– Efrat Cybulkiewicz
507. “Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world. ” – Gabor Maté
508. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
509. “First things first.”
510. “You can never replace it. The good news is you do learn to live without it. You miss it. You want it. You hang out with a bunch of other crazy people who feel the same way and you live with it. And eventually, you start to sound like a cloying self-help book, like me.”
511. “Being in recovery has given me everything of value that I have in my life.. It’s given me a beautiful family and an amazing career.”
512. It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop
513. I know you're tired, I know you feel like giving up, but you're not going to. You know why? Because you are strong, and when you're survived through all the shit your addiction has but you through, you can survive recovery
514. “Recovery is something you have to work on every single day and it’s something that doesn’t get a day off.”
515. “It’s like having a second chance at life, …. Seeing everything with clarity, gratitude; it’s unbelievable. I feel so good. And to have these little blessings is the icing on the cake.”
516. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”
517. “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I have.”
518. “It won’t be like this forever.”Addiction makes a person feel hopeless and trapped. It controls us and makes us forget who we used to be. But the path of recovery is a step towards gaining control of your life once again. You no longer have to be a slave to the disease. And with sobriety, it is possible to gain back that sense of freedom you felt you lost so long ago.
519. “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done. ” – Robert Downey Jr
520. “Prohibition kills, education saves lives” ― Dominic Milton Trott
521. “It is easy to get a thousand prescriptions but hard to get one single remedy.”
522. “Change your behaviours and your feelings will follow.”- Susan McManhon
523. “Your decision to kill your addiction will become a reality only if you believe and reinforce the fact that you have the capacity to do it. (Oche Otorkpa)
524. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” (Robert Downey Jr)
525. “No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.” – Jeanette LeBlanc
526. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”- J.K. Rowling
527. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
528. “A lot of people think that addiction is a choice. A lot of people think it’s a matter of will. That has not been my experience. I don’t find it to have anything to do with strength.” –Matthew Perry
529. “I went to hell and back, but I wouldn’t have it any other way. Then I wouldn’t be in the position I’m in, happy about life and comfortable in my skin.” – Drew Barrymore
530. “Recovery isn’t always easy, but it certainly beats the alternative.”- Anonymous
531. “Until you find out what you are running from, you will never figure out where you are going. ” – Joseph A, Meyering Sr
532. “Having resentment is like using poison and expecting someone else to die.”
533. “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. ”– Ernest Hemingway
534. “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.” – C.S. Lewis
535. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” –Terri Guillemets
536. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.”- Anonymous
537. “People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.”
538. “People are not addicted to alcohol or drugs, they are addicted to escaping reality.”- Anonymous
539. “I’ve been clean for seven years but still think about using heroin everyday. Sometimes the thought is fleeting, but sometimes it scares me how long I think about using. Whenever it gets to be too much, I also think about the hopelessness of that time in my life. Recovery can be a struggle, but it’s a struggle that gives me my life today.” – Jim: Executive Marketing Professional
540. “Every day is a new day. No need to dwell on the past. Look straight ahead.”- Saint Charlotte
541. “See, alcoholism is exactly like bubble gum. You know when you blow a bubble and it bursts, some of the gum sticks to you chin? What's the only thing that gets the bubble gum off your chin? Bubble gum. You have to take the bubble gum out of your mouth and press it against the gum on your chin and it'll pick it up. Only an alcoholic can treat another alcoholic. Only other alcoholics can get you sober.”
542. “I have my off days and sometimes little bits of doubt and all that but all in all I say, hang in there. Today is the tomorrow you were so worried about yesterday.” (Anthony Hopkins)
543. Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind. – Anne Fletcher
544. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
545. “With Angela's help I'd become much more confidant in my abilities yet I still didn't know who I was, what music I liked or felt stable enough to set my home up as a home and why was I training? It made me feel better but it wasn't leading to a fight so what was the point? I let the art therapy or self work as I'd started calling it slack and I'd stopped meditating. Before I knew it I was taking the late night parties home with me. Just a small bottle of baileys of a night and then within weeks I was getting up hungover, going for a run and picking up more on the way home. I'd just survived, I'd won at everything and who cared? What did it change? One night I fell off a P.C chair and cracked a rib because I'd drank tequila too fast,”
546. “The greatest gift of sobriety is being there for the people I should have been there for when I was drinking.” (Anonymous)
547. “Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together. ”― Toni Sorenson
548. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right. ” – Henry Ford
549. “Addiction is a battle between love and hate. My therapist was right about that. ” – Garry Crystal
550. “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
551. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ” — Chinese Proverb
552. “I have learned over the years that when one’s mind is made up, this diminishes fear.” – Rosa Parks
553. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger. ”– Friedrich Nietzsche
554. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
555. “More important, what determines who gets hooked, who recovers, and who does not? And how can we as a society do better at addressing addiction?” — Maia Szalavitz
556. “You have to break down before you can breakthrough.” – Marilyn Ferguson
557. “Addiction begins with the hope that something “out there” can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.” – Jean Kilbourne
558. “One step at a time. One day at a time. One hour at a time.” — Unknown
559. “What Gets Measured Gets Managed.”
560. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” ~Babe Ruth
561. “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey Jr.
562. “It always seems impossible until it’s done. ” — Nelson Mandela
563. “Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
564. “There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before. ” – Leon Brown
565. “If I can see pain in your eyes then share with me your tears. If I can see joy in your eyes then share with me your smile.” – Santosh Kalwar
566. “Addiction is the repetitive process of habitually satisfying cravings to avoid, change, or control the seemingly unbearable conditions of the present moment.”
567. “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.” ~Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds
568. “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you. ” – Aldous Huxley
569. “Love is stronger than death even though it can’t stop death from happening, but no matter how hard death tries it can’t separate people from love. It can’t take away our memories either. In the end, life is stronger than death.”—Anonymous
570. “You are not weak for struggling. You are strong for continuing to fight. ”– Anonymous
571. “And that’s what it’s like for me in recovery at times. Afraid to take on responsibility, new sponsees or something, or allowing myself to stand up and shine… I’ve got new tools, I’ve got new hope, new love, a new respect for myself.” – James Hetfield
572. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step. ” – Naeem Callaway
573. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ” – Dr. Seuss
574. “ Remember just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there. ” – Robert Downey
575. “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves. ” – Mahatma Gandhi
576. “We treat both addiction and co-occurring disorders and accept many health insurance plans. Take a look at our inpatient program.”
577. “Become addicted to constant and never-ending self-improvement. ”—Anthony J. D’Angelo
578. “I can wholeheartedly confess that I’m finally at peace with myself and truly starting to understand what true happiness is.”
579. “An NA meeting is where losers get together to talk about their winnings”
580. “We begin by accepting all the ways that addiction has caused suffering in our lives and the lives of others.”
581. “Drugs and alcohol are often just the parts people see from the outside. Treating at the surface level won’t change what drove the addiction in the first place. ” — Paula A. Freedman
582. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any. ” – Alice Walker
583. “Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see. ” – Bill Wilson
584. “I used drugs to feel better. I quit drugs to be better.”- Anonymous
585. “I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.”
586. “Fall seven times, stand up eight.”- Japanese proverb
587. “Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together. ” ― Toni Sorenson
588. “Addiction – when you can give up something any time, as long as it’s next Tuesday.” — Nikki Sixx
589. “I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.” – Samuel L. Jackson
590. “We’re all addicted to something that takes away the pain. ”― Boys Like Girls
591. “Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.” ~George Addair
592. “The Difference Today Is That I Have Hope”, Finding Peace Through Addiction Recovery & Sobriety Video
593. “Addiction is a habit, which, like many other habits, gets entrenched through a decrease in self-control. ” — Marc Lewis
594. “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.”– Shane Niemeyer
595. “People dealing with trauma and depression don’t magically get better overnight. It’s not like in the movies, Mary. There’s no magic reset button at rock-bottom.”
596. The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. – Dalai Lama
597. Recovery didn't open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!
598. “Fall seven times and stand up eight.” ~Japanese proverb
599. “This answer has to do with the quality of faith rather than its quantity.”
600. “AA purports to be open to anyone, as it is stated in Tradition Tree, "The only requirement for AA membership is a desire to stop drinking," but it isn't open to everyone. It's open only to those who are willing to publicly declare themselves to be alcoholics or addicts and who are willing to give up their inherent right of independence by declaring themselves powerless over addictive drugs and alcohol, as stated in Step One, "We admitted we are powerless over alcohol- that our lives had become unmanageable.”
601. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter.” (Robin Williams)
602. “People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. ” – George Bernard Shaw
603. “it was possible that when Lamb tempted her, it was because he wanted her to fall. The important thing to remember was that she'd not done so yet.”
604. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you. ” – Jim Rohn
605. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
606. “I’m not telling you it is going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it!” – Anonymous
607. “You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star. ” – Jean Church
608. “Recovery is about progression, not perfection. ”– Anonymous
609. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change it. ” — James Lee Curtis
610. “I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.” (Anonymous)
611. “We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.” (Gabor Maté)
612. “You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier to not use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again.”
613. ‘Addiction vs. Recovery…
614. “Someone once told me, ‘I heard you finally got rid of your addiction. ’ I smiled and said, ‘No, addiction doesn’t work like that. Once you have it, you will always have it. I just choose not to feed it. ”– Anonymous
615. “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.”
616. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain
617. “You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.” – Jean Church
618. “I was so concerned what you thought of me, how I was coming across, how I would survive the day. I always felt like an outsider. I just lived in my head. I realized I wasn’t going to live up to my potential, and that scared the hell out of me.”
619. “Be addicted to improving yourself.”- Anonymous
620. “Getting sober remains my single greatest accomplishment.”
621. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” ~Abraham Lincoln
622. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.”- Demi Lovato
623. I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them. – Anonymous
624. “An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate. ”– Criss Jami
625. The most common way people give up power is by thinking they don’t have any. – Alice Walker
626. My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last. – Anonymous
627. “The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”—Kristina McMorris
628. “It’s been a learning process. I’m growing. I couldn’t believe anybody could be naturally happy without being on something. So I would say to anybody, ‘it does get better.’” – Eminem
629. “There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.”
630. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” ~Confucius
631. “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 J. Jackson
632. A deep sense of love and belonging is an irreducible need of all people. We are biologically, cognitively, physically, and spiritually wired to love, to be loved, and to belong. When those needs are not met, we don’t function as we were meant to. We break. We fall apart. We numb. We ache. We hurt others. We get sick. – Brene Brown
633. “I didn’t work or do anything. I wouldn’t go out because I’d have to be in the car for 40 minutes without a drink. That’s all drugs and alcohol do; they cut off your emotions.”
634. “Recovery is possible for everyone, no matter how far gone you think you are.” – Unknown
635. “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.”
636. “ One day he felt ready to give up on life. He overdosed on heroine and woke up a day later at the hospital, where he was diagnosed with cancer. Just perfect, he thought. ” ― Jason Medina,
637. “No sober day is wasted.
638. “Drink because you are happy, but never because you are miserable.” — G.K. Chesterton
639. “Addiction, at its worst, is akin to having Stockholm Syndrome. You’re like a hostage who has developed an irrational affection for your captor. They can abuse you, torture you, even threaten to kill you, and you’ll remain inexplicably and disturbingly loyal. ” -Anne Clendening
640. “People who have never had an addiction don’t understand how hard it can be. ” — Payne Stewart
641. “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
642. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. ” – Walt Disney
643. ‘Find the seed at the bottom of your heart and bring forth a flower.’ – Shigenori Kameoka
644. The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection. – Johann Hari
645. “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival. ” -Audre Lorde
646. “You will face your greatest opposition when you are closest to your biggest miracle.” ~Shannon L. Adler
647. The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives. – William James
648. “If you have made mistakes, there is always another chance for you. You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” – Mary Pickford
649. “The first step in crafting the life you want is to get rid of everything you don’t.” – Joshua Becker
650. “Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.” – Paulo Coelho
651. “The diamond cannot be polished without friction, nor the person perfected without trials.” ~Chinese proverb
652. “When I got sober, I thought giving up was saying goodbye to all the fun and all the sparkle, and it turned out to be just the opposite. That’s when the sparkle started for me. ” — Mary Karr, American poet
653. “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.’
654. “The sorrow we feel when we lose a loved one is the price we pay to have had them in our lives.” ― Rob Liano
655. ‘The mentality and behaviour of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope’ – Russel Brand
656. “The way to measure your progress is backward against where you started, not against your ideal. ”— Dan Sullivan, THE GAIN AND THE GAP
657. There’s No Obligation. Calls Are Confidential
658. “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Brontë
659. “You have to break down before you can break through. ” – Marilyn Ferguson
660. “If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.”
661. My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last
662. “Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
663. “We have to be diligent in seeking after God, emotionally attached and consciously aware of Him at all times. The desire for God's presence must become greater than our strongest craving.” (Etta Hornsteiner)
664. “No matter what the situation is, remind yourself “’I have a choice.’”Make your own choice to come back in a sober lifeSobriety is a choice. Ultimately, it’s up to us – and us alone – to come out of denial and make the first step towards recovery. Likewise, when we’re faced with an unexpected setback or a strong urge to use, we have the power to determine the outcome. Effective treatment can help us identify and overcome our triggers, as well as allow us to make our own decisions about how to respond.
665. “We train our minds to meet all pain with compassion and all pleasure with nonattached appreciation.”
666. “Just because something is familiar, doesn’t mean it’s safe. And just because something feels safe, doesn’t mean it’s good for you. ”― Brittany Burgunder
667. “I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.”
668. People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. – Zig Ziglar
669. ” There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire. ” – Robert Brault
670. “I was an addict. That’s why, … I tell you, addiction is a very cunning enemy. ” ― John McCain
671. “There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.”– Dante
672. “There’s no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes, there’s a long pause between relapses. ” – Alan Moore
673. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else.” – Yogi Berra
674. “Recovery is taking all twelve steps…over and over and over and over…”― Toni Sorenson
675. “One day at a time.”
676. “Secrecy, once accepted, becomes an addiction. ” — Edward Teller
677. “Addiction denied is recovery delayed.”- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
678. “All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
679. “She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her to not feel her feelings.” – Ellen Burstyn, American actress
680. “I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.” ― Edgar Allan Poe
681. “One thing you must realize is that: you either kill your addiction or your addiction will eventually kill you. ”― Oche Otorkpa
682. “May you have all the pleasure you’ve always craved? Nay, may you drown in it!” ― Ahmed Mostafa
683. “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’M POSSIBLE’!” ~Audrey Hepburn
684. “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.” – Demi Lovato
685. “Your addiction to daily distraction denies you of effectiveness. ”― Bernard Kelvin Clive
686. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Coller
687. “Don’t let the past steal your present.” – Cherríe L. Morga
688. “Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something, and has lost something.” – Jackson Brown Jr.
689. “We should be open to change to ensure that our addiction to life always remains under check. ”― Dr. Prem Jagyasi
690. “Either do not begin or, having begun, do not give up.”
691. “Addiction lives in the circuitry of your brain it’s not a personal weakness. ” — Rick Conall
692. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.” — Chinese Proverb
693. “You have to break down before you can break through.” ~Marilyn Ferguson
694. “Addiction: the disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc you created or care about the people whose lives you have shattered.“
695. “We must dig deep inside our inner person and find that child who may have laid dormant for some time. ” – Asa Don Brown
696. “Recovery is not for people who need it. It’s for people who want it.” (Anonymous)
697. “Before you can break out of prison, you must realise you are locked up.”- Anonymous
698. I am not a royalist. Not at all. I am definitely a republican in the British sense of the word. I just don’t see the use of the monarchy though I’m fierce patriot. I’m proud proud proud of being English, but I think the monarchy symbolizes a lot of what was wrong with the country. ” ~ Daniel Radcliffe
699. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”- Benjamin Alire Sáenz
700. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”
701. “You start drinking alcohol, then alcohol starts drinking you.”
702. “Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.” – Dr. Phil
703. “If things go wrong, don’t go with them.” (Roger Babson)
704. “An addict is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong. ” — Stella Adler
705. “Once I was clear-headed, and I hadn’t been clear-headed in so long, I was like, I can never go back. And I’m still thankful.” – Travis Barker
706. “My recovery from drug addiction is the single greatest accomplishment of my life… but it takes work — hard, painful work — but the help is there, in every town and career, drug/drink freed members of society, from every single walk and talk of life to help and guide. ” – Jamie Lee Curtis
707. “Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.” — Seneca
708. “The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction. ” — Debra L. Kaplan
709. “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip toe if you must, but take the step. ” -Naeem Callaway
710. ‘One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went though and it will be someone else’s survival guide. ’ – Brene Brown
711. “It takes a lot of strength to ride the storm of addiction, but it’s worth it.” — Maggie Swann
712. “Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning, anyone can start over and make a new ending.” ~Chico Xavier
713. “She was the third beer. Not the first one, which the throat receives with almost tearful gratitude; nor the second, that confirms and extends the pleasure of the first. But the third, the one you drink because it’s there, because it can’t hurt, and because what difference does it make?” — Toni Morrison, Song of Solomon
714. “I carried a bravado about my drinking like I was a hero of debauchery. But on that Christmas Day, I felt like shit. I had a vague realisation that I was just trying to keep up with some version of myself that I had decided was accurate.”
715. “I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.” — Samuel L. Jackson
716. Sometimes the bad things that happen in our lives put us directly on the path to the best things that will ever happen to us. – Nicole Reed
717. “The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything. ” – Bishop W. C. Magee
718. “Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don’t give up.” — Anne Lamott
719. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. ” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
720. “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
721. “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.” – Helen Keller
722. “Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So, you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them, they somehow fly past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much more drab and empty for their departure.” – Stephen King
723. “The tragedy of life is in what dies inside a man while he lives.”– Norman Cousins
724. “A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.”
725. “Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!” – Anonymous
726. Whether you think that you can or that you can’t, you are usually right. – Industrialist Henry Ford
727. “Addiction: the disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc that you created or care about the people whose lives you shattered.” — Unknown
728. “I have found that the process of discovering who I really am begins with knowing who I really don’t want to be.”
729. “Don’t let the past steal your present. ” – Terri Guillemets
730. “We practice present-time awareness in all aspects of our life. We take refuge in the present.”
731. “Beer is no bravery,
732. “One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.” — Brendan F. Behan
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734. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
735. I’m not telling you it is going to be easy, I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it. – Anonymous
736. “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.”
737. “Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: yourself.” — Russ Kyle
738. “Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside. ” — Unknown
739. “Never underestimate a recovering addict. We fight for our lives every day in ways most people will never understand. “(Anonymous)
740. “If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a “fix” of something, to its detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.” – Rob Stampfli
741. “The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. ” – Arthur C. Clarke
742. Everyone has inside them a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! – Anne Frank
743. “Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.”
744. “What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
745. “When was the last time you woke up and wished you’d had just one more drink the night before? I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you’ll get through anything.”- Meredith Bell
746. “I’m going to be gone one day, and I have to accept that tomorrow isn’t promised. Am I OK with how I’m living today? It’s the only thing I can help. If I didn’t have another one, what have I done with all my todays? Am I doing a good job?” (Hayley Williams)
747. “What is addiction really? It’s a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It’s a language that tells about a plight that must be understood. ”—Alice Miller
748. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. ” – Robert Louis Stevenson
749. “Life is a series of relapses and recoveries. ” – George Ade
750. “No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.”
751. “Recovery is not a race. You don’t have to feel guilty if it takes you longer than you thought it would.”
752. “I think that power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey Jr.
753. “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.”
754. “If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.”
755. “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” — Robert Collier
756. “My addiction does not define who I am or who I will be!”- Lisa Renee Barnes Lampros
757. “I’m here if you ever need anything.”
758. “Easy does it,”
759. “Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.”
760. Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change
761. “It’s okay to bleed on someone who didn’t cut you. Don’t wait until you’re scarred over to ask for help. Healing starts when the wound is still new. ”― Toni Sorenson
762. “The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. ” – Chinese Proverb
763. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
764. “We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain.” – Unknown with real insights for the person in drug addiction recovery.
765. ‘If it wasn’t for that rehab center, I probably wouldn’t have been here. In terms of recovery, it has been very important for me to be a part of a recovery community, to actively be around my people because they understand me. They get it. ” – Macklemore
766. “The road to Recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I’ve dreamed about for so long.” — Amanda Lindhout
767. “Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain. ” – Shannon Perry
768. “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” — Benjamin Alire Sáenz
769. “I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: ‘Wait a minute – if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?’ And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.” ― Craig Ferguson
770. “People spend a lifetime searching for happiness, looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, and even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.” – Ramona L. Anderson
771. I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do. – Georgia O’Keeffe
772. “We never truly get over a loss, but we can move forward and evolve from it.”— Elizabeth Berrien
773. “Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.” – Aldous Huxley
774. “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ” – Zig Ziglar
775. “We do not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.”
776. “Every day is a new day. No need to dwell on the past. Look straight ahead. ”– Saint Charlotte
777. “Control your emotions or they will control you.”
778. “We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime. ” — Mahatma Gandhi
779. Given love and opportunity, every child and adult can recover. All who know this and have the capacity to help others should assist as they can. – Dallin H. Oaks
780. “I am on an emotional roller coaster ride to survive and to conquer obesity, not only for myself but also for everyone that battles some kind of addiction. ” ― Ruby Gettinger
781. “You are stronger than you think.”
782. “You must do the things you think you cannot do. ”– Eleanor Roosevelt
783. As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mahatma Gandhi
784. “Drugs gave me the illusion that I might be alive.”
785. “Quitting smoking is easy. I’ve done it a hundred times.” — Mark Twain
786. “The only requirement for A.A. membership is a desire to stop drinking” (Alcoholics Anonymous)
787. “If you don’t know where you are going, you’ll end up someplace else. ” – Yogi Berra
788. “When you can stop, you don’t want to, and when you to stop, you can’t.” — Luke Davies
789. “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
790. “Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.” — Jean Kilbourne
791. “Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die.” – Stephen King
792. “If You Quit for a Day, You Can Quit for a Lifetime” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
793. “When everything seems like an uphill struggle, just think of the view from the top.” (Anonymous)
794. “Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.” – Babe Ruth
795. “If you hear a voice within you say, ‘you cannot paint’, then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.” — Vincent Van Gogh
796. ‘The minute you think of giving up, think of the reason why you held on so long’
797. “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.” – Henry Ford
798. “The issue of addiction has spread like wildfire and it is affecting every corner of this globe. ” – Asa Don Brown
799. “From an outsider’s perspective, it would seem like I had it all. It was actually a very lonely time for me because I was suffering from alcoholism…I’ve been the lead in movies, on television shows and nominated for Emmy. But the best thing I can say about me is that people who can’t stop drinking come up to me and say, ‘Can you help me?’ And I can say, ‘Yes.’” – Matthew Perry
800. “Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.” — Unknown
801. “If I could use socially I’d get high every night.”
802. “Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.” – Jean Kilbourne
803. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
804. “Addiction recovery is more than stopping drinking or using. It’s an ongoing process of growing and healing – mentally, emotionally, physically and spiritually.” (LVR)
805. “Every addiction starts with pain and ends with pain. ” — Eckhart Tolle
806. “Addiction is a repeated temporary…stilling. I am concerned with peace…not mere relief. ”― Edward Albee
807. “Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All too often, lives and families can be shattered by it.”
808. “May you find the strength and resolve today, to allow a deeper sense of healing to begin.” – Eleesha
809. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. – Robert Collier
810. “I didn’t realize that I was an alcoholic until I realized that the alcohol was not for fun anymore. It was medicine.”
811. “Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.”- David Stafford
812. “It won’t be like this forever.”
813. “Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data. ”—Kevin McCormick
814. I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday’s gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That’s why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift… for those who are willing to receive it. – Ace Frehley
815. “Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial. ”– David Stafford
816. “We are told that people stay in love because of chemistry, or because they remain intrigued with each other, because of many kindnesses, because of luck. But part of it has got to be forgiveness and gratefulness.” – Ellen Goodman
817. “At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.” — Frank Tallis
818. “When you have a problem and you drink, take drugs or gamble, the problem won’t go away. Stay and tackle the problem”
819. “I really mean when I say my biggest fear in early recovery was that I would never have fun again. The beautiful truth is that recovery has given me freedom and the confidence to go out in the world and leave my own mark. ”– Tom Stoddart
820. “For me, addiction never really included telling myself that everything was okay. By the time I was deep in my addictions, I knew things were pretty bad and I had no control over them. ” ― Rob Roberge
821. “Every worth act is difficult.” Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.” — Mahatma Gandhi
822. “The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.” — Russell Brand
823. ‘Addiction isn’t about alcohol and drugs. Its the absence of self. This absence is described as a hole in your soul. You cant love others when you’re empty inside. Recovery peels back the painful layers and heals that hole through connect, honest and hard work. To love one self is the beginning of a lifetime of recovery’
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825. “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it’s going on when you don’t have strength.” ~Napoleon Bonaparte
826. “Money, like vodka, can play queer tricks with a man.” — Anton Chekhov
827. “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life; it comes to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives, and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne
828. ‘Life has many ways of testing a person’s will, either by having nothing happen at all or by having everything happen all at once.’ – Paulo Coelho
829. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
830. “For all the alcoholics and addicts out there, you are loved, stopped being so stubborn and come in from the cold. Wherever you are, there is a brighter light in your sight. Move towards it every day, and keep moving towards it. Even the worst and strongest addiction is a choice—a choice not to fight, to give up, to indulge the impulse, or instead to accept the hands offered you to help, even from strangers, even from the state. Don’t hate those who gave up on you, it wasn’t their fault, you just wore them down. Show them they were wrong about you. Your troubles are meant to mold you into something better, not destroy you, so FIGHT! Another day comes for the better if you’re standing in the right spot for it to hit you. Find the right spot and stay there until it does.”
831. “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily. ” – Zig Ziglar
832. “Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. ” – Mahatma Gandhi
833. “Do you feel like you’re way closer or a lot closer to like, you know, knowing who you are, what makes you happy, what fulfills you, all that stuff.
834. “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.” — Shane Niemeyer
835. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails always to reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
836. “My sobriety anniversary means so much to me because I feel like the day that I got sober was the day that I actually started living and so I like to call myself five years old.” (Demi Lovato)
837. “The very worst part of grief is that you can’t control it. The best we can do is try to let ourselves feel it when it comes. And let it go when we can.”— Grey’s Anatomy
838. “The road to recovery is not easy, but it is worth it.” – Unknown
839. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. – Chinese proverb
840. “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
841. “Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.”- Robert Downey Jr.
842. “Addiction has an imperceptible grip, that tightens ever-so-gradually. Nobody wakes up one day and suddenly can’t stop drinking. ” — Catherine Gray
843. “Addiction is a scary disease. Please, don’t be ashamed to ask for help. You can always fight it.” – Unknown
844. “Life is what we can make of it…. Let us work hard to make it a better one with overdose awareness.”
845. “When I started, I took it one day at a time,” he said. “Ultimately, I found that spirituality worked for me.”
846. “Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!” – Anne Frank
847. “You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.” (Anne Lamott)
848. “If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced. ”– Vincent Van Gogh
849. “We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreparably broken. ” – John Green
850. “Before you can break out of prison, you must realise you are locked up.” – Anonymous
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