Life In Recovery Quotes

#1. Just because you may live your life in recovery, surely doesn't mean the PARTY IS OVER, Nope!, it just means you can remember what you DID LAST NIGHT!.LOL

Catherine Townsend-Lyon

#2. I'm making plans to go away for a month to focus on my sobriety and to continue my life in recovery. Please enjoy making fun of me on the world wide web.

Matthew Perry

#3. I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor ...
I am one with myself.
I AM FREE!

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#4. Bear in mind you have a life to live. There is an incredible loss. There is a profound grief. And there is, in the end, after a long time and more work than you ever thought possible, a time when it gets easier.

Marya Hornbacher

#5. Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

Leo Buscaglia

#6. The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.

Mark Geragos

#7. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all

Phil Volatile

#8. My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.

Tammy Duckworth

#9. When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.

David W. Earle

#10. Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.

Tyler Hamilton

#11. Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

Jenni Schaefer

#12. Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.

David Stafford

#13. Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.

R.D. Laing

#14. Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!

Jennifer Young

#15. Make your own recovery the first priority in your life. ROBIN NORWOOD

Julia Cameron

#16. In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.

Marcel Proust

#17. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.

Anna White

#18. By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

Charles L. Whitfield

#19. I loosened my grip on my opinions. I entered recovery for being such a know-it-all. I stopped expecting everyone to experience God or church or life like I thought it should be done. In fact, I stopped using the word should about God altogether, I sought God, and he was faithful to answer me.

Sarah Bessey

#20. To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.

William Cowper

#21. Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [ ... ] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.

Jenni Schaefer

#22. When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide our feelings of inadequacy in pursuit of perfection, which develops into self-loathing. If only we can be perfect, then we can be okay.

David W. Earle

#23. No one is entitled to anything. Everything we get in this life we have worked for. And sometimes we take on baggage we never even signed up for, but that dosen't mean you deserve it. I wake up everyday wishing I could change things, but I can't change past. All I can do is change the future.

E.M. Youman

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

Jamie Lee Curtis

#25. Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings.

Stanton Peele

#26. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.

Alex Lifeson

#27. As we progress through the Steps, we will discover that true and lasting change does not happen by trying to alter our life conditions. Although it is tempting to think so, outside adjustments cannot correct inside problems.

Friends In Recovery

#28. Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go ... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there ... destination is just a mile away.

Hari Kumar K

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

B.G. Bowers

#30. Pause and remember - Every morning is a new page in the story of your life. You are creating your life at every moment. Think wisely about the day you want to create for yourself.

Jennifer Young

#31. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.

Carol Lee

#32. While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.

Albert Belle

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

Toni Sorenson

#34. Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps

Paula Hawkins

#35. Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

Lynn C. Tolson

#36. I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.

Michael Botticelli

#37. I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?

Allison Janney

#38. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.

Judith Lewis Herman

#39. Don't be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You 're engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility

Binye Vincent

#40. We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.

Toni Sorenson

#41. Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life.

James E. Loehr

#42. Claim all that is good and powerful in life and make it your own!

Jan Porter