Quotes About Recovering From Addiction

#1. Part of the process in healing from trauma, like recovering from addiction, is developing connection and support with others.

Stephanie S. Covington

#2. As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.

Anne Fletcher

#3. I have the obsessiveness of someone who's a sober, recovering addict displacing his addiction. Except I never had the addiction.

John Mayer

#4. It's not my fault that my awesomeness intimidates people.

Jodi Picoult

#5. '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

#6. 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

#7. If you stood at the other end of the universe seeking resolution you would just end up feeling like an idiot for trying.

Brian McGreevy

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

Jane Austen

#11. It is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded.

Eleanor Roosevelt