Events

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

Carrie Fisher

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

When you have a choice to make and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

William James

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese proverb

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Dr. Phil

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow.

Larry Michael Dredla

Don’t let the past steal your present.

Terri Guillemets

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

Katharine Hepburn

If things go wrong, don’t go with them.

Roger Babson

Where there is life, there is hope.

Ron Grover

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

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

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Jean Giraudoux

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese proverb

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

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

Mahatma Gandhi

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Maimonides

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you

Aldous Huxley

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Michael Jordan

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

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

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

T. S. Elliot

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while, there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

James Freeman Clarke

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

Brian Tracy

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Brontë

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Nelson Mandela

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

C. S. Lewis

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

Leon Brown

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Zen proverb

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

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

It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

Joseph Campbell

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

"The bad news is time flies, the good news is your the pilot"

Michael Altschuler

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstien

My worst days in recovery are better than the best days in relapse.

Kate Le Page

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

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

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

Brian Tracy

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.

Kevin McCormack

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt