Top 100 Recovery Addiction Quotes

#1. Openness is the first step toward recovery ... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

David Sheff

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1826687
#2. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #693
#3. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #12395
#4. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #13229
#5. First Embody the Emptiness of Silence
Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH ...

Omid Mankoo

Recovery Addiction Quotes #26352
#6. Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

Christina Greer

Recovery Addiction Quotes #50183
#7. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #51129
#8. This madman must be stopped.

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #76789
#9. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #122718
#10. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.

Beem Weeks

Recovery Addiction Quotes #135072
#11. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #147785
#12. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #170090
#13. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #192661
#14. An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!

Maggie Reese

Recovery Addiction Quotes #202870
#15. I love like a beaten child and I trust like an addict.

Kris Kidd

Recovery Addiction Quotes #241383
#16. Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol.

Srinivas Shenoy

Recovery Addiction Quotes #248062
#17. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #262608
#18. Getting sober is a radically creative act.

Meredith Bell

Recovery Addiction Quotes #276851
#19. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #288955
#20. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.

Super Star

Recovery Addiction Quotes #290306
#21. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #328930
#22. There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #339441
#23. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #361875
#24. Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

David Stafford

Recovery Addiction Quotes #368171
#25. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #385406
#26. The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

Phil Valentine

Recovery Addiction Quotes #390344
#27. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #448803
#28. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

Moshe Kasher

Recovery Addiction Quotes #479167
#29. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #498605
#30. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #500629
#31. I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.

Nick Saint Clair

Recovery Addiction Quotes #517492
#32. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #528894
#33. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #545859
#34. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #562460
#35. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #593487
#36. Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.

Asa Don Brown

Recovery Addiction Quotes #648894
#37. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #672007
#38. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #682397
#39. He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #693062
#40. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #695035
#41. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #700786
#42. It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.

Steven Kassels

Recovery Addiction Quotes #712641
#43. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #742636
#44. She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #767461
#45. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #767980
#46. Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.

Tom Rachman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #773175
#47. Do not let your fire go out.

Ayn Rand

Recovery Addiction Quotes #807711
#48. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #815542
#49. This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical thinking, to escape the ravages of an unoccupied mind cannibalizing itself.

Norah Vincent

Recovery Addiction Quotes #836955
#50. You preach cleanliness,
so I try to keep my room clean,
but I feel no closer to God, and I guess that's okay
because he doesn't know
who he's fucking with anyway.

Kris Kidd

Recovery Addiction Quotes #837581
#51. You are in recovery if you say you are.

Phil Valentine

Recovery Addiction Quotes #855263
#52. I couldn't stop so I quit.

Brian Spellman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #887768
#53. She realized with shock now that her current husband also had a mistress. Her name was cocaine.

Doreen Dyet

Recovery Addiction Quotes #924615
#54. We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.

Toni Sorenson

Recovery Addiction Quotes #933692
#55. Note: addiction diverts attention

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Recovery Addiction Quotes #968722
#56. Alcoholism or addiction is a disease because it fits the definition of disease. It is progressive and chronic, and left untreated, it will kill.

Irene Tomkinson

Recovery Addiction Quotes #974234
#57. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #976237
#58. We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.

Steven Kassels

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1007074
#59. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1019981
#60. Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.

Jennifer Ho-Dougatz

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1022174
#61. The silver flask called to him.
Blue Coyote Motel

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1026922
#62. We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

Stephen J. Pasierb

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1034493
#63. Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe.

Birgit Waldschmidt

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1047579
#64. '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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1080778
#65. The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.

Augusten Burroughs

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1089510
#66. Body scan meditation is mentally scanning through each part of the body with presence. It helps us be one with the body. Thus, we can feel if we are holding on to any tension or heaviness or any static emotions. And by doing so, we can find relief and internal freedom.

Christopher Dines

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1097898
#67. Getting rid of the drugs doesn't get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It's not that easy.

Amy Reed

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1097983
#68. Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places

Gordon Rouston

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1108774
#69. The world teaches us to be self-sufficient, self-reliant, self-motivating. But anytime we put self before Savior, we're in trouble

Toni Sorenson

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1131820
#70. Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

David Foster Wallace

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1136335
#71. Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."
Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.

Carrie Fisher

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1137017
#72. You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

Seth Adam Smith

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1144934
#73. It will all be over in 2 weeks

Ken Novak

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1158881
#74. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.

Ann Marlowe

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1188235
#75. Every pain, addiction, anguish, longing, depression, anger or fear
is an orphaned part of us
seeking joy,
some disowned shadow
wanting to return
to the light
and home
of ourselves.

Jacob Nordby

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1202863
#76. If we are continuing to attract partners that are emotionally unavailable, then it's essential that we observe our own addictive patterns rather than focusing on theirs.

Christopher Dines

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1215510
#77. Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.

Christopher Dines

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1218523
#78. Honey, I usually get $300, but I like you, so I'll just take $200.

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1272516
#79. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1296953
#80. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1299626
#81. Some of the burdens we carry include false weight, perhaps to make up for all the horrible stuff we actually did and forgot.

David Carr

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1325682
#82. Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream
and died without joy,in silence and isolation.

David W. Earle

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1337288
#83. Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.

Jean Kilbourne

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1351153
#84. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1368349
#85. Ironically, the road to the dark side
most often remains brightly lit,
fancy-colored and all, while the road to the light remains dark until you reach a destination, at which point it becomes a feast for the eyes--provided you haven't gotten mugged during your travels.

Birgit Waldschmidt

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1431701
#86. People who are dependent are merely using alcohol as a crutch to get through the day. Yet doctors and scientists are still treating "alcoholism" as if it is the problem, when it has nothing to do with the problem. They might as well be studying "scratchism" for people who have a chronic itch.

Chris Prentiss

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1436105
#87. They say you can't build Rome in a day, but I'm pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.

Kris Kidd

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1440105
#88. Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!

Gary Goldstein

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1458222
#89. My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

Martin Sheen

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1487037
#90. I am a work in progress.

Violet Yates

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1488334
#91. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1504131
#92. The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.

Dianne Harman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1514585
#93. Working together with Democrats and Republicans, I passed legislation to help break the grip of addiction. By investing in prevention, treatment, and recovery, empowering law enforcement, and stopping the overprescribing of painkillers, we can turn the tide.

Rob Portman

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1544133
#94. Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.

Susannah Grant

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1561606
#95. Scores of high-powered men and women are addicted to substances or destructive addictive patterns of behaviour. As a matter of fact, it is easier to hide one's addiction while maintaining a high-powered position compared to the addicts and alcoholics we see sleeping on street corners.

Christopher Dines

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1574960
#96. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1579362
#97. To get her husband back, Krista had to let him go and it killed her.

Doreen Dyet

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1592611
#98. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1598077
#99. 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

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1598698
#100. Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.
This is not one of those memoirs.

Kate Madison

Recovery Addiction Quotes #1674879

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