Relapse Quotes

• Rather than viewing a brief relapse back to inactivity as a failure, treat it as a challenge and try to get back on track as soon as possible.

  Jimmy Connors

  Track, Focus, Tennis

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• A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-development.

  Philippa Perry

  Mean, Thinking, Self

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again.

  Steven Adler

  Moving, Recovery, Dust

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• Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.

  George Ade

  Recovery, Life Is, Series

  George Ade (1903). “People You Know”

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• You should prepare to follow the program for 90 days. Why? Because behavioral research indicates that it takes 90 days to prepare for change, build a new behavior, become confident in the face of high-risk triggers, and move past the likelihood of relapse. Brain research also suggests that it takes a few months of practicing a new behavior to create permanent change.

  John C. Norcross

  Moving, Past, Risk

  John C. Norcross, Kristin Loberg, Jonathon Norcross (2013). “Changeology: 5 Steps to Realizing Your Goals and Resolutions”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• There's no such thing as quitting. Just sometimes there's a longer pause between relapses.

  Alan Moore

  Quitting, Sometimes, Pauses

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• You have to get up every morning and tell yourself 'I can do this.'

  Julie Johnston

  Good Morning, Morning Sun, Morning Inspirational

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• As life goes on it becomes tiring to keep up the character you invented for yourself, and so you relapse into individuality and become more like yourself everyday.

  Agatha Christie

  Character, Individuality, Everyday

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• The path of descent is the path of transformation. Darkness, failure, relapse, death, and woundedness are our primary teachers, rather than ideas or doctrines.

  Richard Rohr

  Teacher, Ideas, Darkness

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• Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

  Horace

  Moving, Exercise, Effort

  "The Molecular Biology of Cancer: A Bridge from Bench to Bedside". Book by Stella Pelengaris, p. 376, March 5, 2013.

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• There should be asylums for habitual teetotalers, but they would probably relapse into teetotalism as soon as they got out.

  Samuel Butler

  Drinking, Asylums, Teetotalers

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• The other thing is that if you rely solely on medication to manage depression or anxiety, for example, you have done nothing to train the mind, so that when you come off the medication, you are just as vulnerable to a relapse as though you had never taken the medication.

  Daniel Goleman

  Taken, Anxiety, Mind

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• Let people who have to observe sickness and death look back and try to register in their observation the appearances which have preceded relapse, attack or death, and not assert that there were none, or that there were not the right ones. A want of the habit of observing conditions and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Death, Science, Average

  Florence Nightingale, Ramona Salotti (2003). “Notes on Nursing: What It Is, and What It Is Not”, p.100, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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• What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

  Brennan Manning

  Jesus, Biblical, Wind

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• Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Love, Real, Interest

  Ann Radcliffe (1998). “The Mysteries of Udolpho”, p.317, OUP Oxford

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• A want of the habit of observing and an inveterate habit of taking averages are each of them often equally misleading.

  Florence Nightingale

  Average, Want, Habit

  Notes on Nursing Chapter XIII

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• I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.

  Cornel West

  Morning, Struggle, Recovery

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

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• Too many people believe they can control their drug of choice. But the drug is almost always in control. If an addict truly wants help, it is available, but it is a rocky path. The monster always calls. Never give an addict money. Clothe them. Feed them. But enabling them is the quickest path to watching them fade away completely. This may seem harsh. But I've watched my own child relapse, after six years sober. I love her. Always. But I can't help her die.

  Ellen Hopkins

  Children, Believe, Years

  Source: monsterlibrarian.com

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• As a rule, from what I've observed, the American Captain of Industry doesn't do anything out of business hours. When he has put the cat out and locked up the office for the night, he just relapses into a state of coma from which he emerges only to start being a Captain of Industry again.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Cat, Night, Office

  P. G. Wodehouse, David A. Jasen (1997). “Enter Jeeves: 15 Early Stories”, p.20, Courier Corporation

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• This is new for me. I'm learning how to have a realtionship with someone other than Ashton. I made a horrible mistake. It was like a relapse. But you," I reached up and tucked the tear dampened hair that had worked its way loose behind her ear. "You touch a place inside of me that Ashton never did. I feel things with you I never felt for her. I loved her for a very long time. I can't help the fact I still want to be there if she needs me. Next time there is a choice to make it will be you I choose first. I can promise you that.

  Abbi Glines

  Mistake, Hair, Long

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• They say you have to get and stay sober for yourself, and of course I agree with that, but I've really appreciated the added stakes of having someone relying on me for survival. My daughter makes me want to do right. That doesn't mean I won't relapse again. It's happened to me before. But she adds a layer of love in my life that I've never known.

  Joshua Mohr

  Daughter, Mean, Survival

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• I protest that we fans are being emotionally starved and frustrated by long periods of perfect performance of these batteries. More over, when there are nothing but strikes and balls going on, you relapse into your worries over the Bank of England, or something else.

  Herbert Hoover

  Baseball, Perfect, Worry

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• The soul's maladies have their relapses like the body's. What we take for a cure is often just a momentary rally or a new form of the disease.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Soul, Body, Disease

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• Experimental psychology itself has, it is true, now and again suffered relapse into a metaphysical treatment of its problems.

  Wilhelm Wundt

  Psychology, Problem, Metaphysical

  Wilhelm Max Wundt (1969). “Principles of Physiological Psychology”

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• The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Health, Perfect, Soul

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