Recovery Quotes

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

I've had a lot of therapists, so I've had the opportunity to approach my fear in many different ways. I've faced it head on and sideways and tried to tiptoe up behind it.

Other flowers came at the end of the summer, but by then the winter sadness had already dissipated, and the effect of the blooms was not the same.

The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel

There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.

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God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.

There was no sudden, striking, and emotional transition. Like the warming of a room or the coming of daylight. When you first notice them they have already been going on for some time.

There is a certain kind of darkness that seeps into our lives if we are not actively engaged in creating light.

I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.

The strange part about a person’s lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.

When you wear a mask, you are not real.

Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

She’s all the blood I’ve ever shed. She’s every time I’ve ever thought of death. She’s every time I’ve ever looked at happiness and thought, ‘That’s not meant for me.

The spiritual malady that we speak of so often in recovery circles requires a spiritual solution. Nothing else will ever be enough and nothing else will last.

There's a hard law, mejuffrou, that when a deep injury is done to us, we never recover until we forgive.

Deep down inside, each of us knows what our truths are. It is forgivable to lose them...It is unforgivable not to reclaim them.

Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.

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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate––then spread, lift up, fly.

He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.

We don't get to choose the things that happen to us in life. What we can choose is how to react to them, how we deal with them, and how we move on.

We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.

It's easier to maintain a good character than to recover it when it's gone bad!

Better spend time working hard to maintain your good habits because you may look for time to recover it but to no avail!

It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Memory, when it juts, retreats, recovers, shows us how to hold the darkness, how to breathe.

The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we’re in trouble

Human beings have a deep need to bond and form connections. If we can’t connect with each other, we will connect with whatever we can find … It is disconnection that drives addiction.

Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

In my view, compassion takes empathy to another level. With compassion, there is an internal calling to move empathy into action. Compassion is love in action.

To stay true to ourselves and remain kind to others is an art. It does require daily vigilance and, at the same time, it’s important to remember that art can often get messy.

Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.

Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.

If I know something, I am not a victim. Victims don't know the meaning of their suffering. I am an enemy or a collaborator, not a victim.

Big mistakes are an outstanding opportunity to showcase your ability to recover and have grace under pressure.

My hand-stitched wings itchto take flightto test the winds of changethat inevitably blow at the end of a cycle.

One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.

I don’t think it makes much difference what we’re recovering from, all suffering eventually points to the need for healing.

We're saying the story doesn't end here, that the air in your lungs is there for a reason.

The day you believe ‘you know everything’ you have just experienced the biggest failure of your life! Recovery might be difficult!

The man who sins but wants to purify it is no more a sinner than the man who doesn't sin but wants to sin.

The only personYou shouldn't be ableTo live withoutIs you.

In situations of captivity the perpetrator becomes the most powerful person in the life of the victim, and the psychology of the victim is shaped by the actions and beliefs of the perpetrator.

The road to recovery may be tough, but I've closed all the doorsthat lead to giving upWith only one choice in hand, I am focused on healing