Recovery Quotes - Page 18

• I was taught early on in my recovery that, 'Pain is good. Extreme pain is extremely good.'

  Mike Ness

  Pain, Taught, Extremes

  "Interview with Mike Ness of Social Distortion". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 12, 2012.

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• I feel very blessed that at a young age I was able to navigate my battle with drug and alcohol addiction, and through recovery live a sober life. There is such a stigma attached to addiction and it was hard for me to both confront and overcome it. I am very proud and grateful that with the support of family and friends, I was able to do so.

  Cara Santana

  Grateful, Blessed, Addiction

  "Actor and Entrepreneur Cara Santana On being inspired by daily life, overcoming addiction, and taking risks". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

  Richard Rossi

  Spiritual, Years, Twelve

  Source: www.patheos.com

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• Acceptance is the road to all change.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Loss, Acceptance

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• Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.

  Demi Lovato

  Inspirational, Days Off, Get Over

  Demi Lovato (2013). “Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year”, p.106, Macmillan

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• We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Choices, Decision

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• Pause and remember - You will have a lot more time and energy to spend on yourself when you stop worrying and wasting time on how others need to change.

  Jennifer Young

  Loss, Remember You, Remembers You

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• Training was very extensive, and we dealt with many recoveries from emergencies, and fortunately, participating and observing and existing through the reality of space was a once-in-a-lifetime experience and it was not marred by unexpected hazards or catastrophes.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Reality, Space, Training

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• There's really only one true path to recovery that's using the 12 step program and finding a belief in something greater than yourself (spirituality).

  Nikki Sixx

  Path, Steps, Belief

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• Mean people are really just sad people. They hurt others because they are hurting. Every person is born beautiful, and much of the ugliness in others was put inside of them by other hurting people.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Beautiful, Hurt, Mean

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• The president is eager to get to work and looks forward to working with the new Congress on policies that will make sure middle-class Americans are sharing in the economic recovery, but the president is clear that he will not let this Congress undo important protections gained -- particularly in areas of health care, Wall Street reform and the environment.

  Barack Obama

  Wall, Health, Class

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• Meaningful rules in the consumer credit market can accelerate economic recovery. Rules would increase consumer confidence and, more importantly, weed out all the tricks and traps that sap families of billions of dollars annually.

  Elizabeth Warren

  Meaningful, Weed, Dollars

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• In competition, everything is very well planned in advance and very well detailed. You just stick to the plan, keep your head down and be as disciplined as possible in every aspect, whether sleep, recovery or the intensity of your training. And it's all recorded; the data is analysed.

  Victoria Pendleton

  Sleep, Data, Competition

  Hertfordshire Life Interview, www.hertfordshirelife.co.uk. January 12, 2015.

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• When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Rip, Loss, Together Again

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• An empirical philosophy is in any case a kind of intellectual disrobing. We cannot permanently divest ourselves of the intellectual habits we take on and wear when we assimilate the culture of our own time and place. But intelligent furthering of culture demands that we take some of them off, that we inspect them critically to see what they are made of and what wearing them does to us. We cannot achieve recovery of primitive naïveté. But there is attainable a cultivated naïveté of eye, ear and thought.

  John Dewey

  Philosophy, Eye, Intelligent

  Jo Ann Boydston, John Dewey, Sidney Hook (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, Volume 1: 1925, Experience and Nature”, p.40, SIU Press

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• Truth always rests with the minority, and the minority is always stronger than the majority, because the minority is generally formed by those who really have an opinion, while the strength of a majority is illusory, formed by the gangs who have no opinion - and who, therefore, in the next instant (when it is evident that the minority is the stronger) assume its opinion ... while Truth again reverts to a new minority.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Workout, Truth, Inspiration

  "The Diary of Soren Kierkegaard" by Soren Kierkegaard, pt. 5, sct. 3, no 128, 1850.

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• If Americans are working harder than ever earning less than they once did, our government and our leaders should step up, offer a plan, fix what's wrong -- or they should step aside, the recovery has been everywhere but in the family paychecks. The American Dream has become a mirage for far too many.

  Jeb Bush

  Dream, Government, Leader

  "Jeb's primary strategy: Run a general election campaign" by Adam P. Levy, www.cnn.com. February 4, 2015.

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• I would not encourage you to go through the sweat, blood, and tears of the recovery process only to reach some kind of mediocre state where you were just 'managing' the illness. It is possible to live without Ed.

  Jenni Schaefer

  Blood, Sweat, Tears

  Jenni Schaefer (2009). “Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life”, p.9, McGraw Hill Professional

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• It's hard to believe President George Bush gave a speech in New Orleans about disaster recovery and failed to mention the word 'farm' or the word 'rural.'

  Jim Hightower

  Believe, New Orleans, Agriculture

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• Recovery proceeding excellently. Am sure that the crushing of the Kazan Czechs and whiteguards, as well as of the kulak extortioners supporting them, will be exemplarily ruthless.

  Vladimir Lenin

  Crush, Ruthless, Wells

  Telegram to Leon Trotsky on September 07, 1918. "The Cheka: Lenin's Political Police" by George Leggett, p. 119, 1981.

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• Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

  Heather Mills

  Opposites, Prove

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• People on a spiritual path - personal growth, spiritual practice, recovery, yoga and so forth - are the last people who should be sitting out the social and political issues of our day. And there’s an important reason for this: People on such journeys are adepts at change. They know that the mechanics of the heart and mind are the fundamental drivers of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Yoga, Heart

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share.

  Barack Obama

  Powerful, Common Humanity, Upheaval

  Remarks by the President on the Situation in Japan, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. March 17, 2011.

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• Meaning lies in the confrontation of contradiction - the coincidencia apositorum. That’s what we really feel, not these rational schemes that are constantly beating us over the head with the “thou shalts” and “thou should”, but rather a recovery of the real ambiguity of being and an ability to see ourselves as at once powerful and weak, noble and ignoble, future-oriented, past-facing.

  Terence McKenna

  Powerful, Real, Lying

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• You become what you think about

  Napoleon Hill

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Napoleon Hill (1997). “Napoleon Hill's Positive Action Plan: 365 Meditations For Making Each Day a Success”, p.13, Penguin

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