Top 58 Quotes About Recovery From Addiction
#1. Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.
Lundy Bancroft
#2. Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
Susannah Grant
#3. 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
#4. We must move in our recovery from one addiction to another for two major reasons: first, we have not recognized and treated the underlying addictive process, and second, we have not accurately isolated and focused upon the specific addictions.
Anne Wilson Schaef
#5. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.
Nick Saint Clair
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. 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
#10. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.
Asa Don Brown
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
Dianne Harman
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
Steven Kassels
#17. 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
#18. She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.
Dianne Harman
#19. 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
#20. Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.
Tom Rachman
#21. Do not let your fire go out.
Ayn Rand
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
Debra L. Kaplan
#30. Deepening awareness and nonjudgmental acceptance of one's thoughts fosters a new relationship with them, creating the space to purposefully shift mental focus away from the ruminative thought patterns that pave the road to suffering.
Dan Mager
#31. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.
Kris Kidd
#32. 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
#33. 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
#34. 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
#35. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...
Omid Mankoo
#36. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.
Christina Greer
#37. 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
#39. 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
#40. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.
Beem Weeks
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
Maggie Reese
#45. 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
#46. Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol.
Srinivas Shenoy
#47. 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
#49. 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
#50. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
Super Star
#51. 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
#52. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
Dianne Harman
#53. 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
#55. 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
#57. 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
#58. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
Moshe Kasher
