Top 100 Recovery Life Quotes
#1. Love yourself unconditionally.Do what you love to do.Be grateful for what you do have.Happiness is an attitude of gratitude.Love all of life.
Jan Porter
#2. My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
Martin Sheen
#3. Many people say that recovery from an aneurysm is like having a layer of skin ripped off - your experience of life is more intense.
Maryam D'Abo
#4. Just because you may live your life in recovery, surely doesn't mean the PARTY IS OVER, Nope!, it just means you can remember what you DID LAST NIGHT!.LOL
Catherine Townsend-Lyon
#5. Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.
Steve Maraboli
#6. Can you admit on here that you have an affliction for millions of other people to see? Then that is great and a huge step towards your recovery.
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#7. There had been a subtle realignment of the spheres. The world was somehow a place I could endure again. If life was a grey corridor lined with doors, it was now within my power to open some of them.
Alexis Hall
#9. Let me be clear: I am a Methodist. By that, I mean I think John Wesley was a recovery of Catholic Christianity through disciplined congregational life.
Stanley Hauerwas
#10. Recovery [from codependency] may not always be comfortable at first for the other people in one's life. But it is always worth it because, actually, nobody ever respects a 'doormat'.
David Stafford
#11. Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.
Jenni Schaefer
#12. Slowly, inch by inch, I felt myself recovering. After a few weeks, the darkness began to recede; my appetite for life returned. Haven was wonderful; she understood and nursed me through these weeks until I felt strong enough to go out in public, to get on my bike again.
Tyler Hamilton
#13. When I learned about the gray existing between the black and white of absolute terms, I began to experience more peace. The more I expanded my gray areas (more than 50 shades), the more peace I experienced in my life.
David W. Earle
#14. Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.
Ze Frank
#15. My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
Tammy Duckworth
#16. Recovery isn't easy, at first. It takes time. It takes more work, sometimes, than you think you're willing to do. But it is worth every hard day, every tear, every terrified moment. It's worth it, because the trade-off is this: you let go of your eating disorder, and you get back your life.
Marya Hornbacher
#17. Never feel this bad again. Never come back to this place, where only a knife will do. Live a gentle and kind life. Don't do things that make you want to hurt yourself. Whatever you do, every day, remember this - then steer away from here.
Caitlin Moran
#18. As much as we strive towards the light, we still want to be embraced by the shadow.
Zoran Drvenkar
#19. My only choice was to fight my way out, even if I didn't think I would make it.
Laurie Halse Anderson
#20. and tonight we held each
other, one last time,
like a dance to a
slow song
on an empty
floor,
underneath a single
disco ball
in front of
no one
at all
Phil Volatile
#21. Is a few hours of hell-raising, or respite from life's toil worth this every morning?
Catherine Lockwood
#22. The AXA and New York Life settlements are important building blocks not only toward seeking financial recovery for the losses resulting from the Armenian Genocide but also in our ultimate goal, which is for Turkey and the US to officially acknowledge the genocide.
Mark Geragos
#23. Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.
Leo Buscaglia
#24. I have suffered pains and torture of all natures. I have heard many say, "I am a survivor." I am not in a boat in a sea of torture awaiting to be rescued. I am a Conqueror, I am a Victor ...
I am one with myself.
I AM FREE!
Stanley Victor Paskavich
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.
Toni Sorenson
#28. We can't calm waves, but we can steer the ship.
Hayley Long
#29. When life beats us down, we often do not feel worthwhile to ourselves nor to anyone else. Often, we try to hide our feelings of inadequacy in pursuit of perfection, which develops into self-loathing. If only we can be perfect, then we can be okay.
David W. Earle
#30. Because modern society has almost completely eliminated trauma and violence from everyday life, anyone who does suffer those things is deemed to be extraordinarily unfortunate. This gives people access to sympathy and resources but also creates an identity of victimhood that can delay recovery.
Sebastian Junger
#31. Connect with supportive people who empower you. The more you jump into your life, the further away from Ed you can get. Don't have a backup plan for living. Live today. [ ... ] Trust in God. Believe in yourself. Get friends and family members to stand behind you. That's the only backup you'll need.
Jenni Schaefer
#32. How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.
Josh Lanyon
#33. To impute our recovery to medicine, and to carry our view no further, is to rob God of His honor, and is saying in effect that He has parted with the keys of life and death, and, by giving to a drug the power to heal us, has placed our lives out of His own reach.
William Cowper
#34. These thrill seeker people doing extreme sports ... they have a hideous accident, go through agonizing recovery, and then go back to that activity that nearly killed them ... that's not facing your fear, that's embracing your stupidity.
Kelli Jae Baeli
#35. We must be content to grow slowly. Most of us will still barely be at the beginning of our recovery by the time we die. But that is better than killing ourselves pretending to be healthy.
Simon Tugwell
#36. I loosened my grip on my opinions. I entered recovery for being such a know-it-all. I stopped expecting everyone to experience God or church or life like I thought it should be done. In fact, I stopped using the word should about God altogether, I sought God, and he was faithful to answer me.
Sarah Bessey
#37. 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
#38. Being down is not abnormal; it's a virus that we all must contact at different times. Who you look up to recovery is what separates us! This phase has a terminal date.......
Bayode Ojo
#39. One of the most dangerous myths surrounding eating disorders is that they are a life sentence.
Lynn Crilly
#40. Life is too short to have debts and doubts,
Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#41. The loss of India would mark and consummate the downfall of the British Empire. That great organism would pass at a stroke out of life into history.From such a catastrophe there could be no recovery.
Lord Randolph Churchill
#42. In short, my aunt demanded that whoever came to see her must at one and the same time approve of her way of life, commiserate with her in her sufferings, and assure her of ultimate recovery.
Marcel Proust
#43. Unfortunately, as anyone who has lived through a tragedy knows, life does, rather infuriatingly, go on.
G. Norman Lippert
#44. Pause and remember - Every single event in your life, especially the difficult lessons, have made you smarter, stronger, and wiser than you were yesterday. Be thankful!
Jennifer Young
#45. Teenagers can spot hypocrisy a mile away and here I was telling them how to cope when they witnessed the shambles of my own life and how I was living.
David W. Earle
#46. I wanted to say all these things about how you just have to hold on to the things you love and let go of all the rest.
Charlotte Eriksson
#47. It is how we grieve, that travels us into healthy recovery states
S.L. Northey
#48. I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.
Christopher
#49. Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.
R.D. Laing
#50. To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life.
Jenny Reese Clark
#51. It is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for it is inevitable that being unaware of the purpose for your life, you will not be able to recover from being abandoned by your wife or husband
Sunday Adelaja
#52. Meditation is the single most powerful tool to aid recovery from disease and lead to a life of maximum health
Ian Gawler
#53. Keep up your faith to go high and fly, even after so many pains and sorrow. You can turn from a caterpillar to a butterfly. Life gives you a second change: a call to grow.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#54. The reasons for Emma's illness and for her decision to allow life in, rather than die, are intertwined and involve the beginnings of her feelings of belonging, of safety and of competence to be in the world.
Carol Lee
#55. 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
#56. When we leave this life, we only get to take two things: the love we received and the lessons we learned.
David W. Earle
#57. Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.
Cornelia Meigs
#58. Teaching emotional intelligence skills to people with life-threatening illnesses has been shown to reduce the rate of recurrence, shrink recovery times, and lower death rates.
Travis Bradberry
#59. There was no recovery from what had happened. That would take decades; it would take a long life.
Markus Zusak
#60. 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
#61. My family and friends were definitely the key to my recovery. One thing that I do suggest is that anyone dealing with a life-threatening illness like cancer choose a point person for people to call to find out how you are doing - a sister, brother, mother, father, daughter, son, or close friend.
Olivia Newton-John
#62. 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
#63. The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.
Emma Woolf
#64. Before the magic of recovery, I thought a perfect weekend involved hiding from myself with all the distractions life provides.
David W. Earle
#65. The unavoidable has touched the life of every human being on the face of the earth. Some have rebounded, others have given up
but all of us have felt the wings of tragedy brushing against us.
Paulo Coelho
#66. Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life.
B.G. Bowers
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Are you repeating someone else's narrative, taking it for granted? Talk therapy sessions and 12-step recovery shares help develop the ability to present a coherent life narrative through the safe structure of clear rules of communication that support healthy self-expression and self-awareness.
Alexandra Katehakis
#70. 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
#71. You know, life fractures all of us into little pieces. It harms us, but it's how we glue those fractures back together that makes us stronger.
Carrie Jones
#72. Giving saves lives. Especially the giver's.
Shannon Kopp
#73. 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
#74. Certainly after the tragedy in Neil's life, we were holding out hope for his recovery. It wasn't too promising at the time and obviously you get to the point of thinking that that is it.
Alex Lifeson
#75. Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not "sobriety" and meetings.
Stanton Peele
#76. We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.
Toni Sorenson
#77. Would they be cheered by their recovery, or marked for life by their trauma?
Dan Wells
#78. A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.
Marianne Williamson
#79. Get up, get out, and be social. - from his song Don't try
Gerard Way
#81. Claim all that is good and powerful in life and make it your own!
Jan Porter
#82. Recovery is an important word and a vital concept. It means renewal of life and energy. Knowing how and when to recover may prove to be the most important skill in your life.
James E. Loehr
#83. This wonderful gray of acceptance resides between the extremes of black and white thinking; looking for serenity, explore the gray. Part of that acceptance is understanding that life is hard and involves life and death. Part of that acceptance is that I am responsible for my actions.
David W. Earle
#85. It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.
Russell Brand
#86. As a conquered rebellion strengthens a government, or as health is more perfectly established by recovery from some diseases; so anger, when removed, often gives new life to affection.
Henry Fielding
#87. Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: "What can I do today to make my life better?" "What can I do to become more like my Ideal Image?
Bucky Sinister
#88. Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.
George Ade
#89. 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
#90. I could not finish the rest of the tours the band had planned. I was replaced by Matt Cameron. The next years of my life were about recovery, healing, and right living. I never lost the need to create.
Jack Irons
#91. 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
#92. Recovery unfolds in three stages. The central task of the first stage is the establishment of safety. The central task of the second stage is remembrance and mourning. The central focus of the third stage is reconnection with ordinary life.
Judith Lewis Herman
#93. I can't imagine trying to be in recovery. I mean it would be hard enough with just life going along in a nice way, but then when awful stuff happens, how you maintain the strength to get through it?
Allison Janney
#94. I'm one of 23 million Americans in recovery who have gone on to live productive lives.
Michael Botticelli
#95. You don't have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.
Jamie McCall
#96. Is the person I was before dead? Or will the worst things that happened to me eventually get diluted by the rest of my life, become just a part of the story that I've always been writing?
Rebecca Rosenblum
#97. Hollowness: that I understand. I'm starting to believe that there isn't anything you can do to fix it. That's what I've taken from the therapy sessions: the holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps
Paula Hawkins
#98. It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.
Gary Oldman
#99. While in the clinic, I discovered I had problems with concentration, motivation, attitude, and temper. I have found a new way of life through the clinic's program and a 12-step recovery plan.
Albert Belle
#100. Just as the body takes time to recover from an infection that has afflicted it, so the soul needs times of silence and solitude for its recovery from the insane pace of modern life.
Howard Baker
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