Quotes About Recovering Addicts

#1. the church community is a hospital for recovering addicts to selfishness.

Winfield Bevins

#2. I work with The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University. I sit proudly as one of only two recovering addicts on their board.

Jamie Lee Curtis

#3. When i ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, i can feel the Spirit whisper to me, 'you tell me why we allow this to happen. You are my body, my hands, my feet.

Shane Claiborne

#4. antisocial behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world of conformists.

Nikola Tesla

#5. I've never been in this business for the recognition or the awards. I just want to do good work, grab a decent paycheck, and move onto the next job.

William Petersen

#6. Love is a choice. Total forgiveness is a choice. It is not a feeling-at least at first-but is rather an act of the will. It is the choice to tear up the record of wrongs we have been keeping.

R.T. Kendall

#7. He says things which need saying and which none of us have had the courage to say. This passage, where he compares Italy to a tipsy man weeping with tenderness on the neck of the thief who is picking his pocket, is splendidly written.

Ethel Lilian Voynich

#8. Don't know we're not allowed to use magic at home. I'm going to have a lot of fun with Dudley this summer. . . .

J.K. Rowling

#9. The cause of poverty is not scarcity. It is fear and small thinking.

Alan Cohen

#10. She blinded me with science and failed me in geometry.

Thomas Dolby

#11. The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Ernest Hemingway,

#12. When you're put in a position where you're having to decide, Is this a good decision? Is this the right decision for everybody involved? - it makes me feel a little unsteady, unsure.

Tyler Blackburn

#13. If you become more sensitive to beauty, to poetry, that means your love has blossomed. And all the energy that has been left by fear, anger and hate, will be taken over by your love, your sensitivity, your compassion, your creativity. This is the whole alchemy of changing base metals into gold.

Rajneesh

#14. We stop worrying about them, and they pick up the slack and finally start worrying about themselves. What a grand plan! We each mind our own business. Earlier, I described a person caught in

Melody Beattie

#15. God may be in the details, but the goddess is in the questions. Once we begin to ask them, there's no turning back.

Gloria Steinem

#16. To follow Story is to understand the path of healing. Each of our stories is a universe. Each one of us is living a story. To discover its shape and essence is essential to soul making.

Deena Metzger