Quotes About Recovery From Drug Addiction

#1. Don't throw good ideas away until you've considered all of your options.

David Eddings

#2. There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.

Francesco Guicciardini

#3. The fear of the drugs running out is managable-the fear of time running down isn't.

Ann Marlowe

#4. Gately can't even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It's like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and like playing a lot of really precise pool.

David Foster Wallace

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I don't do much more than organise other people's ideas and insights and thoughts, and sort of harvest them, and inventory them and present them.

Chuck Palahniuk

#8. 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

#9. The geeks shall inherit the earth.

Karl Lehenbauer

#10. An opulent priest is a contradiction.

Victor Hugo

#11. 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

#12. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.

Steven Kassels

#13. 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

#14. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

#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. The future-driven IT organizations step out of the traditional IT box, to understand the business and customers better via longer time frame.

Pearl Zhu

#17. 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