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Recovery Reflections

  • Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

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

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

    Brian Tracy
  • Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

    J. Petit Senn
  • Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

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

    T. S. Elliot
  • What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

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

    Brian Tracy
  • The best way out is always through.

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

    Alice Walker
  • Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

    Jim Rohn
  • Don’t let the past steal your present.

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

    Kate Le Page
  • Where there is life, there is hope.

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

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

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

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

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

    Zen proverb
  • Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you

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

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

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

    Dr. Phil
  • Fall seven times, stand up eight.

    Japanese proverb
  • In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

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

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

    Michael Jordan
  • “Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”– C.S. Lewis

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

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

    Robert Louis Stevenson
  • 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
  • Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

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

    William James
  • 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
  • Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

    Victor Hugo
  • If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

    Benjamin Alire Sáenz
  • Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

    C. S. Lewis
  • 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
  • Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

    Robert Collier
  • 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
  • Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

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

    James Freeman Clarke
  • Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

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

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

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

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

    Oliver Wendell Holmes
  • Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

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

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

    Abraham Lincoln
  • “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

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

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

    Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

    Maimonides
  • “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell

  • Every noble work is at first impossible.

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

    Leon Brown
  • If things go wrong, don’t go with them.

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

    Charlotte Brontë
  • It always seems impossible until it’s done.

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

    Elbert Hubbard

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