Recovery Quotes · Page 18

My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

— Patty Duke

You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you.

— Dan Millman

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“If I am this capable of loving an alcoholic so much, imagine how awesome I could be at loving myself.”

— Grace W. Wroldson

The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.

— Christine Caine

“One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn’t a clue. A day is a fuckin’ eternity”

— Roddy Doyle

The fact is that the economy is really posed for the kind of recovery that people can see and understand.

— Al D'Amato

“We judge ourselves by our intentions; the world judges us by our actions”

— Anonymous

We will pave the way for a transformation and roll back the years of Thatcherism...We will turn economic ruin into economic recovery,…

— Arthur Scargill

I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery…

— Barack Obama

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group…

— John Bradshaw

“The good and the bad that occur are simply mile markers and not a definition of your worth or acceptability.”

— Asa Don Brown

I know now that we never get over great losses; we absorb them, and they carve us into different, often kinder, creatures.

— Gail Caldwell

“The road to recovery may be tough, but I've closed all the doors that lead to giving up With only one choice…

— Vijaya Gowrisankar

There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At…

— Bruce Bartlett

The doctor is not a miracle worker who can magically save us but, rather, an expert adviser who can assist us in…

— Michael Crichton

“The most important thing in defining child sexual abuse is the experience of the child. It takes very little for a child’s…

— Laura Hough

“There had not been an attachment to it; it wasn't supposed to change me, it wasn't supposed to make me do anything…

— Meara O'Hara

“When the sum of our faith and humility is sufficient, it reaches a type of spiritual critical mass and hope is fostered…

— Roger Stark

IF THE TRUE MEASURE OF A BOOK is to be found in the perfume that remains behind when all the words have…

— Rupert Spira

While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during…

— Chelsea Handler

People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should…

— Marianne Williamson

For many centuries, suicides were treated like criminals by the society. That is part of the terrible legacy that has come down…

— Judy Collins

Money spent on vegetative patients is money not spent on preventive care, such as flu shots and mammograms. Each night in an…

— Jacob M. Appel

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

— Aberjhani

I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

— Mike Ness

“Any life wasted or spent is gone and it will never come back.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Many of us have been disconnected with our own individualities, our true individualities.”

— Patricia Dsouza

One of the most difficult parts of recovery for me is achieving restful sleep.

— Travis Pastrana

There is no recovery for anyone without lifting the lid on the pain of the past and letting in the light.

— Rob Lowe

it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

— Zig Ziglar

Recovery days are critical to my training, and that holds true for any athlete.

— Laird Hamilton

Work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.

— Napoleon Hill

“Recognizing your illness is the first step in your recovery”

— Maya Banks

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

Sometimes you're playing three games in a week, then you have to get the recovery in.

— Mason Mount

“You’ve climbed too many mountains and crossed too many rivers to stop and turn back now.”

— Eleanor Brownn

“Our past offers us a choice ... live IN it or live FROM it.”

— Brittany Burgunder

I wake up every morning with a great desire to live joyfully.

— Anna Howard Shaw

“Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.”

— B.G. Bowers