Recovery Quotes

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

  J. K. Rowling

  Inspirational, Change, Wise

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• 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

  Love, Forgiveness, Spiritual

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• Nothing is permanent in this wicked world - not even our troubles.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Love, Inspirational, Cute

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• In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Summer, Winter

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• Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

  David Bowie

  Clever, Fear, People

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• Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

  Alan Cohen

  Motivational, Change, Success

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• Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.

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• You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Loss, People, Trying

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  T. S. Eliot

  Death, Dance, New Beginnings

  Four Quartets "Little Gidding" pt. 5 (1942)

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• We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Patience, Wisdom

  Helen Keller (2016). “The Story of My Life”, p.111, Om Books International

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• The more healthy relationships a child has, the more likely he will be to recover from trauma and thrive. Relationships are the agents of change and the most powerful therapy is human love.

  Bruce D. Perry

  Love, Relationship, Change

  "The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog". Book by Bruce D. Perry, 2006.

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  The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Inspirational, Life, Attitude

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• With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Good Morning, Strength

  Eleanor Roosevelt (2001). “My Day: The Best of Eleanor Roosevelt's Acclaimed Newspaper Columns, 1936-1962”

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• Keep these concepts in mind: You've failed many times, although you don't remember. You fell down the first time you tried to walk. You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim. Don't worry about failure. My suggestion to each of you: Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

  Sherman Glenn Finesilver

  Failure, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

  Julia Cameron

  Motivational, New Beginnings, Addiction

  Julia Cameron (1999). “The Right to Write: An Invitation and Initiation into the Writing Life”, p.15, Penguin

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• A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Inspirational, 4th Of July, Feet

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.11, Nayika Publishing

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  Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Atlanta Magazine, April 2008.

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  My recovery from manic depression has been an evolution, not a sudden miracle.

  Patty Duke

  Depression, Swings, Miracle

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.289, Bantam

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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  Saint Augustine

  Freedom, Catholic, Habit

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 296, 1895.

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  The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3

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  Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

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• Replace perfectionism with persistence. After all, in recovery and life, it's persistence that really pays off. Forget about perfection.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Persistence, Perfection, Pay

  Jenni Schaefer (2014). “Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too”, p.16, McGraw Hill Professional

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• Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

  Christiaan Barnard

  Inspirational, Life, Suffering

  "Rancho Libido and Other Hot Spots" by Shelia Ballantyne, www.nytimes.com. April 28, 1985.

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Eark Nightingale, Claude M. Bristol, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS02”, p.150, Lulu.com

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