Recovery Inspirational Sayings

#1. But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors.

George S. McGovern

#2. When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success.

David P. Ingerson

#3. Self-discovery is life recovery.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#4. 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

#5. When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room.

Sandy Nathan

#6. 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

Geoff Shepherd

#7. I'm here to tell you that if you get broken, it's possible to put yourself back together. I'm here to tell you that if you get lost, it's possible that a light will come, dancing, on the horizon, to lead you home.

Nick Lake

#8. Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you.

Sally Brampton

#9. The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human.

Patricia Deegan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.

Anna White

#13. Our wounds are not a measure of one individual's sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others.

Lynn C. Tolson

#14. To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.

Jenny Reese Clark

#15. Depression feels a bit like that, it creeps in on you and settles, until you think it'll never lift, but in time it always does. That's why it's so tragic if people don't reach out to anyone when they feel low, because if they do, the mist will usually lift in the end.

Sita Brahmachari

#16. Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced.

Carolyn Wells

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Nick Jimbanis

#18. In this week I see such a picture of life, hard and joyful pressed up together and sleeping in the same bed. They come knit together. The lines of pain run through the joy and remind us to go all in, because life is short. The joy edges the pain and gives us a reason to rise.

Anna White

#19. By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

Charles L. Whitfield

#20. Without struggle there is no progress.

Allison Woyiwada

#21. You were born a child of light's wonderful secret - you return to the beauty you have always been.

Aberjhani

#22. Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.

Marian Keyes

#23. What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

Aberjhani

#24. The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds.

Roger Stark

#25. One day, you will stand at the summit of a figurative mountain and look back on your life's journey. And, to your utter amazement, you will see how your experiences with depression, dark and painful as they were, only added to the overall beauty of your life.

Seth Adam Smith

#26. Sometimes things do not go the way one wanted them to go ... At times like this, one would wish that one had not dreamt so much. Just hang in there ... destination is just a mile away.

Hari Kumar K

#27. Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way.

Super Star

#28. Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.

China Mieville

#29. Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation.

Roger Stark

#30. Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim.

Patricia Buckley

#31. 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

#32. The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.

Criss Jami

#33. It was surreal to see such normalcy in the midst of my personal crisis. The horses still raced. The vendors still served food. The world did not stop because I had a brain tumor.

Sally Stap

#34. Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.

J.K. Rowling

#35. Only love can neutralize shame.

Omar Manejwala

#36. Day by day, what you do is who you become.

Heraclitus

#37. When the sum of our faith and humility is sufficient, it reaches a type of spiritual critical mass and hope is fostered and grows. A willing heart emerges which generates the ability for us to submit to the process of recovery.

Roger Stark

#38. You have survived so much
that no one remembers.
And you still spread warm
rain on all your overgrown
lots. And you still get dressed
in the morning. You still
open wide for the sun.

Jacqui Germain

#39. Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'.

Laurie Davidson

#40. Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

Laurie Davidson

#41. Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.

Lynn C. Tolson

#42. Being broken isn't the worst thing. We can be mended and put together again. We don't have to be ashamed of our past. We can embrace the history that gives us value, and see our cracks as beautiful.

Anna White

#43. The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.

Patricia Deegan

#44. My hand-stitched wings itch
to take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle.

B.G. Bowers