Self Recovery Quotes

#1. And if one's goal is self-recovery, to be well in one's soul, honesty and realistically confronting loneliness is party of the healing process.

Bell Hooks

#2. Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery.

Fulton J. Sheen

#3. The journey to true happiness and to happiness now is not a journey of physical distance or time; it is one of personal "self-recovery," where we remember and reconnect consciously to an inner potential for joy
a paradise lost
waiting to be found.

Robert Holden

#4. Self-discovery is life recovery.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I lost myself in the burden of trying to be your savior.

Alexandria Hampton

#9. stars are the scars of the universe

Ricky Maye

#10. 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

#11. This economic boycott is our means of self-defense. President Roosevelt has advocated its use in the National Recovery Administration.

Samuel Untermyer

#12. The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.

Albert Ellis

#13. Do not wait and hope to be discovered ... make yourself so you cannot be denied!

Jamie McCall

#14. Stop validating your victim mentality. Shake off your self-defeating drama and embrace your innate ability to recover and achieve.

Steve Maraboli

#15. No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.

Kamal Ravikant

#16. The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

Marianne Williamson

#17. I am small.
So are stars from a distance. It's all a matter of perspective.

C. Kennedy

#18. Choosing to Let Go crashes the pity party thrown by all the "What ifs" and "If onlys.

Justin Young

#19. I saw the apartment almost as a sanatorium, a hospice clinic for my own recovery. I painted the walls in the warmest colors I could find and bought myself flowers every week, as if I were visiting myself in the hospital.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'

Subliminal messaging works!

Nick Jimbanis

#21. I don't need anyone else to distract me from myself anymore,
like I always thought I would.

Charlotte Eriksson

#22. [ ... ] I'm about to get on a plane here, and I'm packing recovery literature. All I know is I'm going to be the guy reading the book on co-dependency. That's what I know about me.

Marc Maron

#23. There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.

Stefan Molyneux

#24. I have learned that I am a better everything because I wanted and loved those babies so much. I am also a better everything because I lost them. Sure, the losses left my heart and soul shattered at first, but now with daily work in recovery I have a scarred but healing heart and soul

Justine Brooks Froelker

#25. The only person
You shouldn't be able
To live without
Is you.

Chris Mc Geown

#26. Don't ever feel bad that someone couldn't give you all of their heart. Be grateful that you can take the least complicated part of their soul with you, wherever you go. This is more than some people will ever have.

Shannon L. Alder

#27. A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

Vera Nazarian

#28. You can exist without your soul, you know, as long as your brain and heart are still working. But you'll have no sense of self anymore, no memory, no ... anything. There's no chance at all of recovery. You'll just - exist. As an empty shell. And your soul is gone forever ... lost.

J.K. Rowling

#29. Freedom doesn't come through banning; freedom lies in mastering self-control.

Beem Weeks

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. I realized that I was okay with myself. I was quirky and withdrawn and loud, but I liked that. I smiled at strangers without thinking they were going to attack me and drag me into their cars. I went to doctors' offices and touched magazines that had been touched by sick people.

Anna White

#33. It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

Henri Frederic Amiel

#34. If I were free, as a physician, to say what I pleased, I would tell every abused person I see that there is an entire world out there that is nothing like the one you're living. Go discover it.

C. Kennedy

#35. Honoring your word is the fiber from which trust is built.

David W. Earle

#36. 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

#37. Is it bad to like the way the scars look on my skin? Oh, the way they feel under my hands. My body's protecting itself, saying, "No, this barrier of scar tissue is to keep you out.

Taylor Rhodes

#38. At that time the only treatment of angelism, that is, excessive abstraction of the self from itself, was recovery of the self through ordeal.

Walker Percy

#39. World's definition of success
material validation of self
cold and naked substitute
for inner warmth and beauty.

David W. Earle

#40. 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

#41. Only love can neutralize shame.

Omar Manejwala

#42. While we are in recovery we need to be able to strike a balance between not allowing our ego to do all the talking and not letting our low self-esteem to only present what is wrong with us.

Noah Levine

#43. This relates to the concept of time and our ability as dreamers to reach across time to a past or future self and do some good. This is very important as it relates to soul loss and soul recovery.

Robert Moss

#44. Some people stand and move as if they have no right to the space they occupy. They wonder why others often fail to treat them with respect
not realizing that they have signalled others that it is not necessary to treat them with respect.

Nathaniel Branden

#45. 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

#46. 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

#47. It is strange ... the reasons one feels he doesn't deserve things.

C. Kennedy

#48. Memories demand attention, and these memories will have teeth.

C. Kennedy