Recovery Quotes - Page 16

• Our best problem-solving resource is peace. Solutions arise easily and naturally out of a peaceful state.

  Melody Beattie

  Peaceful, Problem, States

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Looks, Enjoyment, Drank

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• The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.

  David Sheff

  Feel Better, Hopeful, Decision

  "Clean: An Interview with David Sheff". Interview with Cathy Taughinbaugh, cathytaughinbaugh.com.

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• Positive thoughts and prayer have been the best means available, since the beginning of time, to transform darkness to light.

  Cat Stevens

  Prayer, Mean, Light

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• The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great to see families using these strategies and getting results, feeling hopeful again, feeling empowered, getting support, learning to trust themselves again, getting their lives and the lives of their children back.

  Jeff Foote

  Children, Hopeful, Support

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• Information is not synonymous with knowledge. Information is only data, parts of the whole. Knowledge has a moral imperative to enhance intellectual and spiritual unity.

  Ruth Nanda Anshen

  Spiritual, Data, Intellectual

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• If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

  Benjamin Alire Saenz

  Addiction, Quitting, Lifetime

  Benjamin Alire Sáenz (2013). “Last Night I Sang to the Monster”, p.237, Cinco Puntos Press

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• In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.

  Aimee Mann

  Thinking, People, Addiction

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• It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.

  Alex Jones

  Jobs, Bankers, Different

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• That's why the American Recovery & Reinvestment Plan won't just throw money at our problems, we'll invest in what works

  Barack Obama

  Money, Problem, Plans

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• It's going to be a busy meet for me, I knew that coming in, so I'm just trying to go through all my recovery strategies. Just forget about the last race and move onto the next. Hopefully I swam fast enough to get in, but we'll see.

  Tera Van Beilen

  Moving, Swimming, Race

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• While there is no quick fix for instant, pain-free creativity, creative recovery (or discovery) is a teachable, trackable spiritual process. Each of us is complex and highly individual, yet there are common recognizable denominators to the creative recovery process.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Pain, Writing

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.21, Souvenir Press

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• It is sometimes suggested that the [Nazi economic] recovery was a product of a specific fascist economic strategy, which distinguished it from the recovery efforts of other capitalist states. While few would disagree that the Nazi regime had a number of clear ideological preferences when it came to the economy, the policies pursued in 1933 had much in common with those adopted in other countries, and with the policies of the pre-Hitler governments.

  Richard Overy

  Country, Numbers, Government

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• In the heavens there is calmness
  and on the earth there is beauty.
  In the gardens there is freshness
  and in you there is a sign.
  In the sea there is might
  and in the air there is nourishment.
  Take from all this comfort for your soul
  and recovery for your mind.
  And do not waste your time by being unmindful,
  this will shield you from good
  and lead you to evil.

  Hassan al-Banna

  Wisdom, Islamic, Garden

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• People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too. Little as we know about the way in which we are affected by form, by color, and light, we do know this, that they have an actual physical effect. Variety of form and brilliancy of color in the objects presented to patients, are actual means of recovery.

  Florence Nightingale

  Health, Mean, Science

  Florence Nightingale (1860). “Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and What it is Not”, p.59

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• I've triumphed over addiction.

  Tatum O'Neal

  Addiction

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• In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.

  Billie Holiday

  Country, Love You, Jail

  Billie Holiday, William Dufty (2011). “Lady Sings the Blues: The 50th-Anniversay Edition with a Revised Discography”, p.220, Broadway Books

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• We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

  Scott Stevens

  Illustration, Long, People

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• A soul does not benefit from the sacrament of confession if it is not humble. Pride keeps it in darkness. The soul neither knows how, nor is it willing, to probe with precision the depths of its own misery. It puts on a mask and avoids everything that might bring it recovery.

  Mary Faustina Kowalska

  Humble, Pride, Catholic

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• 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

  Inspirational, Goal, Becoming

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• 'Early stages' is when the cancer is completely contained within the prostate. If it is detected when the cancer is entirely in the gland, the chance for full recovery is at its highest.

  Len Dawson

  Cancer, Chance, Glands

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• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

  Publilius Syrus

  Success, New Beginnings, Greatness

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• The great rebalancing -- what does recovery mean today?

  Gillian Tett

  Mean, Doe, Today

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• But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.

  Alexi Giannoulias

  Jobs, Mean, Reality

  "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.

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• For recovery, I think it's a big deal to eat within a half-hour after you exercise. Otherwise I just try to put carbs into my system before I swim and then load up on the protein after. I don't count calories. Whether it's Sour Patch Kids or Reese's or a bag of chips, if I feel like eating it, I'm going to eat it.

  Michael Phelps

  Kids, Exercise, Thinking

  "Olympic Champ Michael Phelps Bares Chest on Cover of 'Details': The 27-year-old gold medalist hopes to make a big splash in London". Details Magazine Interview, www.hollywoodreporter.com. July 10, 2012.

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