Top 62 Quotes About Recovery From Love
#1. 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
#2. These kisses hurt--not from roughness, but because she could feel all his pain.
Jamie Beck
#3. Being able to say, "No," is a necessary ingredient in a healthy lifestyle.
David W. Earle
#4. Wounded parents often unintentionally inflict pain and suffering on their children and these childhood wounds causes a laundry list of maladaptive behaviors commonly called codependency. These habits restrict people to love-limiting relationships causing much unhappiness and distress.
David W. Earle
#5. When someone obtains peace and serenity, this shines a bright spotlight on others' own unhappiness making their discomfort even more apparent.
David W. Earle
#6. When one person attempts to "fix it" for the other person, the connection of acceptance is snapped and the sender and receiver miss an opportunity for understanding.
David W. Earle
#7. Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.
Michio Kushi
#8. 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
#9. Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.
Aberjhani
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. The more dysfunctional, the more some family members seek to control the behavior of others.
David W. Earle
#13. Pause and remember - No one is coming to rescue you from yourself; your inner demons, your lack of confidence, your dissatisfaction with yourself and life. Only self-love and good decisions will rescue you.
Jennifer Young
#14. 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
#15. Swirling in a squirrel cage of perpetual motion, the head-committee meets, argues, votes out the guidance available from emotions, and successfully keeps serenity at bay and chaos close at hand.
David W. Earle
#16. My story testifies to the truth that we must never give up on people, no matter how many times they fail or how long recovery takes. We must never underestimate the healing power of prayer and love in the hands of the Lord. We must never give up hope.
Walt Heyer
#17. The fact that I didn't even love myself was just enough to know it's time to change. I accept that not many are able to help, let alone, understand the troubles that lie within.
H.M. Gautsch
#18. I would love to live free of the fear and sadness and real desperation that I think the effect of childbirth has on women, especially because we are expected to be so concerned by 'recovery' from childbirth.
Romola Garai
#19. Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.
David W. Earle
#20. Don't be overly proud of your accomplishments and success. Recovery is never complete. You 're engaged in a life-long process. Continue each day to love and serve God with humility
Binye Vincent
#21. Consider letting go of the barriers between yourself and others, let go of the definition our culture has inflicted upon us and allow the best part of ourselves to connect with the wondrous parts of others. Allow yourself to connect in a deeper and more profound way.
David W. Earle
#22. They sought the pain they knew so well and called it love.
David W. Earle
#23. One way [to recovery] would be by creating the best possible romance book or happy ending scenario for you ... out od your own experience. Another way would be to look at it as it is: a wake-up call to action to create a more humane world, without discrimination and sexism.
Elina Juusola
#24. The strange part about a person's lack of trust is that it often comes from not trusting themselves.
David W. Earle
#25. 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
#26. Many of the habits of dysfunctional families use are not from the lack of love but are the result of fear. Knowing the love-limiting habits and behaviors of dysfunctional families is a wonderful beginning to lower the fear, allowing us to be real, allowing us all to learn how to love better.
David W. Earle
#27. Healing from an eating disorder is a personal journey - the medicine is whatever reminds you that you do in fact want to live, and that you are worthy and capable of love.
Shannon Kopp
#28. I have a very ecumenical faith. I have a very inclusive faith. There's a quote I love from recovery literature that says, "The realm of the spirit is roomy and broad. It is open to all." I've absolutely staked my life on that.
Ashley Judd
#29. What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.
Andrew Harvey
#30. Healing isn't just about pain. It's about learning to love yourself. As you move from feeling like a victim to being a proud survivor, you will have glimmers of hope, pride and satisfaction. Those are natural by-products of healing.
Ellen Bass
#31. I am small.
So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.
C. Kennedy
#32. We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.
Bryant H. McGill
#33. This imbalance causes resentments within the over-responsible and dependency with the irresponsible person and this dynamic becomes the destructive life-pattern not conducive to happy families.
David W. Earle
#34. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.
Shannon Kopp
#35. He answered the phone to his daughter with a broken but joyous heart, ready to speak with her of astonishment and wonder.
Patrick Ness
#36. I started off thinking Eminem was a flash in the pan, a kind of hip-hop Hanson brother. How wrong I was. Recovery is sometimes funny, sometimes terrible, always painfully honest. The matching of Eminem and Rihanna on "Love the Way You Lie" is pure genius. "Not Afraid" is pretty great too.
Stephen King
#37. ...the state of perfection is an elusive goal; demanding something so obscure as almost unattainable and can become a compulsive, crazy making squirrel-on-a-wheel way of living.
David W. Earle
#38. Black and white thinking limits understanding and feedback, two necessary ingredients for successful resolution in creative conflict and successful understanding.
David W. Earle
#39. Man and man's earth are unexhausted and undiscovered. Wake and listen! Verily, the earth shall yet be a source of recovery. Remain faithful to the earth, with the power of your virtue. Let your gift-giving love and your knowledge serve the meaning of the earth.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#40. The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
David W. Earle
#41. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.
Kris Kidd
#42. If you are looking for love under rocks or bringing home water moccasins, you might be confusing love and pain.
David W. Earle
#43. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.
Super Star
#44. Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.
David W. Earle
#45. Sometimes I struggle. Sometimes I falter. Sometimes I live in gray. But always I remember the yarrow you've grown in the spaces of my rib cage. I now love with roses from my heart, with lilacs from my mouth.
Elijah Noble El
#46. People pay a dear price when not dealing with the powerful emotions.
David W. Earle
#47. People don't need to be forced to grow. All we need is favorable circumstances: respect, love, honesty, and the space to explore.
Ellen Bass
#48. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...
Omid Mankoo
#49. Even when everything hurts, even when other cities are exploding and people we love are disappearing, there's still space for sweet things.
Corey Ann Haydu
#50. It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.
David W. Earle
#52. What are humans meant to do; why are we here? Are we a mutation on the earth destroying its host? Are we a cancer destined to kill what supports us? I think not. So exploring this question is a powerful exercise in meaning; what is the meaning of human existence?
David W. Earle
#53. When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.
David W. Earle
#54. Always allow your childlike wonder, joy, gratitude, love and laughter to serve as your own soul's tool kit for life's most difficult challenges.
Jan Porter
#55. But undying memories stood like sentinels in her breast. When the notes of doves, calling to each other, fell on her ear, her eyes sought the sky, and she heard a voice saying, Majella!
Helen Hunt Jackson
#56. Others hide from being real by filling the air with words; the more words they throw out, the less actual communication happens and they are left with only an illusion of connection. This is the intimacy they so ardently seek but with these coping skills find so elusive.
David W. Earle
#57. 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
#59. Putting labels on others creates a black hole of disregard where judgment thrives and schisms deepen.
David W. Earle
#60. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.
Nick Saint Clair
#61. Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
Aberjhani
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