You are the artist of your recovery, and you get to create…

My identity shifted when I got into # recovery . That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have…

— Eric Clapton

Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

— Anonymous

Do not let your fire go out.

— Ayn Rand

Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

— Jean Kilbourne

It is not heroin or cocaine that makes one an addict, it is the need to escape from a harsh reality.

— Shirley Chisholm

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness…

— Russell Brand

Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

— Margaret Thatcher

“It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.”

— Steven Kassels

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

— John Milton

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature…

— Ayn Rand

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

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

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

— Katharine Hepburn

No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.

— Ayn Rand

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

— Anonymous

Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

— Emile Coue