Top 100 Quotes About Addiction Recovery
#1. 'Higher Power' was the result of a personal experience: a friend of mine who went through the process of addiction and recovery. It's a very, very tough thing - very easy to become addicted and very, very hard to become a recovering addict.
Tom Scholz
#2. If we are continuing to attract partners that are emotionally unavailable, then it's essential that we observe our own addictive patterns rather than focusing on theirs.
Christopher Dines
#3. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.
Jacob Nordby
#4. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.
Ann Marlowe
#6. You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.
Seth Adam Smith
#7. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.
Carrie Fisher
#8. Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
David Foster Wallace
#9. 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
#10. Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places
Gordon Rouston
#11. Getting rid of the drugs doesn't get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It's not that easy.
Amy Reed
#12. Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. Thus, we can feel if we are holding on to any tension or heaviness or any static emotions. And by doing so, we can find relief and internal freedom.
Christopher Dines
#13. The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.
Augusten Burroughs
#14. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.
Christopher Dines
#15. Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe.
Birgit Waldschmidt
#16. We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.
Stephen J. Pasierb
#17. The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel
Dianne Harman
#19. In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.
Aimee Mann
#20. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.
Steven Kassels
#21. God wants you to be truthful and humble to yourself and others. He made you good and industrious, but you can't benefit from it if you always stumble on pride.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#22. Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.
Irene Tomkinson
#24. We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.
Toni Sorenson
#25. She realized with shock now that her current husband also had a mistress. Her name was cocaine.
Doreen Dyet
#26. My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
Martin Sheen
#27. Today I share about my addiction and recovery journey as often as possible because I don't want to die all alone in a dark closet, shrouded in shame beside the decomposing skeletons I tried so desperately to hide. I want to live.
Shannon Egan
#28. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.
Kate Madison
#29. Spurred by Amy's death I've tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
Russell Brand
#30. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
Russell Brand
#31. To get her husband back, Krista had to let him go and it killed her.
Doreen Dyet
#32. I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
Brian Spellman
#33. Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.
Christopher Dines
#34. Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
Susannah Grant
#35. Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.
Rob Portman
#36. The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.
Dianne Harman
#37. Healthy and non-shaming mirroring is an important part of the process. We can gain this from a highly emotionally intelligent and effective peer group that has our best interests at heart.
Christopher Dines
#40. Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!
Gary Goldstein
#41. They say you can't build Rome in a day, but I'm pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.
Kris Kidd
#42. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.
Chris Prentiss
#43. Ironically, the road to the dark side
most often remains brightly lit,
fancy-colored and all, while the road to the light remains dark until you reach a destination, at which point it becomes a feast for the eyes--provided you haven't gotten mugged during your travels.
Birgit Waldschmidt
#44. Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.
Samantha Leahy
#45. Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
Jean Kilbourne
#46. Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.
David W. Earle
#47. Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.
David Carr
#48. The process of recovering from addictiveness happens at a deeper level of consciousness and through feeling our pain without using old addictive fixes. There is no escaping that getting in touch with our original pain is the touchstone to mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing.
Christopher Dines
#49. 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.
Christopher Kennedy Lawford
#50. Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.
Dianne Harman
#51. An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
Maggie Reese
#53. Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
Tim Cowlishaw
#55. You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
Mallory Ortberg
#56. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
Dianne Harman
#57. When we observe the flow of our breathing, we transcend our thoughts and are able to bring mind and body into harmony with each other. Thus, we create calm.
Christopher Dines
#58. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
Super Star
#59. Have you ever come out of a dramatic, chaotic situation and said, "I did everything I could, and it wasn't enough?"
That's because "everything we can" isn't enough. It's only enough when our everything joins with Christ's everything.
Toni Sorenson
#61. Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.
Steven Kassels
#62. Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol.
Srinivas Shenoy
#63. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.
Kris Kidd
#64. Science has proven that sin has the power to change us for the worse. In a healthy brain, rational thought can override impulsive behavior. Not so in a brain affected by addiction. This is how Satan steals our ability to choose wisely. Addiction costs us the ability to exercise our agency.
Toni Sorenson
#65. We know that you don't want to be a drunk and you don't want to be hooked on addictive drugs. You do it because you can't cope with your life without some sort of support, even if that support is damaging.
Chris Prentiss
#66. 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.
Christopher Dines
#67. NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don't think the same - their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.
Greg Prato
#68. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.
Beem Weeks
#69. Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
Simon Weston
#71. When we seek to escape from inner conflict and pain, we are running away from unresolved childhood trauma or original pain. Most people with serious addictive natures who are in the process of recovery have found that trauma played a huge role in escalating their addictions. It certainly did for me.
Christopher Dines
#72. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Christina Greer
#73. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...
Omid Mankoo
#74. It is ethanol that everyone is after when they drink alcoholic beverages. That is what gives us the euphoric feeling, and that is what all vendors of alcoholic drinks are selling.
Chris Prentiss
#75. What they don't tell you when you get sober is that if you manage to stay that way, you will bury your friends. Not everyone gets to have a whole new shiny-but-messy life like I have, and I've never come up with a satisfying explanation for why that is.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#76. He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
Dianne Harman
#78. You preach cleanliness,
so I try to keep my room clean,
but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that's okay
because he doesn't know
who he's fucking with anyway.
Kris Kidd
#79. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.
Norah Vincent
#80. Sometimes, he thought of himself as an elephant walking through the china store, breaking everything in his path and still expecting people not to be angry with the damage he made, but rather to admire his strength and his endurance.
Stevan V. Nikolic
#81. Do not let your fire go out.
Ayn Rand
#82. Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.
Tom Rachman
#83. I felt utterly stripped of safety and love. And so, what tormented me most as I shook through August of 1988 wasn't the nausea and chills but the recurring fear that I'd never have lasting comfort or joy again.
Maia Szalavitz
#84. She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.
Dianne Harman
#85. As we celebrate Recovery Month, it is time for Congress to knock down the barriers to treatment and recovery for 26 million Americans suffering the ravages of alcohol and drug addiction.
Jim Ramstad
#86. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#87. I chose to share both the good and the bad parts of my story, and of my imagination, so that it might help even one person realize that there is hope. You are not alone. And it does get better. I promise you it's worth it.
Kimberly Nalen
#88. 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.
Christopher Dines
#89. This woman's size protected her
from the hurts of the world
but it also imprisoned her soul.
As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry,as a silent scream frozen on her face.
David W. Earle
#90. Why do you want so much this new beginning? Do you think the new beginning will postpone the end? Are you afraid of the end? Are you afraid of death Michael?" (Ch.35)
Stevan V. Nikolic
#91. 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
#92. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.
Asa Don Brown
#93. When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.
John A. Macdougall
#94. Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
Alcoholics Anonymous
#95. Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself - something you cannot prove for certain.
Seth Adam Smith
#96. A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it sound like some amazing discovery ... don't they know I'm far too busy trying to recover me?
Ashly Lorenzana
#97. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.
Nick Saint Clair
#98. Often self-love is replaced with self- loathing, compounded by beating ourselves up. We become experts at putting ourselves down, judging ourselves, and finding fault. This creates deep shame that says "I am a mistake" instead of saying "I made a mistake.
David W. Earle
#99. Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.
Mariel Hemingway
#100. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
Moshe Kasher
