Recovery Quotes - Page 2

• Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!

  Bernard Jensen

  Medicine, Nutrition, Remember

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• Shame was an emotion he had abandoned years earlier. Addicts know no shame. You disgrace yourself so many times you become immune to it.

  John Grisham

  Years, Addiction, Emotion

  Twitter post from Jul 14, 2016

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• When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

  Luke Davies

  Overcoming Addiction, Alcohol, Drug

  "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.

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• Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.

  Rob Lowe

  Sobriety, Addicts In Recovery, Greatest Gifts

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• I believe in recovery, and I believe that as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

  Ann Richards

  Inspirational, Mistake, Believe

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• I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Thinking, Sober, Results

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• I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, Addiction, Alcohol

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• A recovery of the old sense of sin is essential to Christianity. Christ takes it for granted that men are bad. Until we really feel this assumption of His to be true, though we are part of the world He came to save, we are not part of the audience to whom His words are addressed.

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Essentials, World

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• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.328

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• This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

  Dan Quayle

  Funny, Witty, Political

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• The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Mistake, Sobriety, Lessons

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• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Anyone can train hard. Do you have the discipline to recover?

  Lauren Fleshman

  Sports, Train Hard, Discipline

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• The economy is showing encouraging signs of recovery.

  George Voinovich

  Economy

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• Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.354, Courier Corporation

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• Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Oscar Wilde (2005). “The Prose of Oscar Wilde”, p.641, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

  John Milton

  Happiness, Inspiring, Attitude

  Paradise Lost bk. 1, l. 254 (1667)

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• No human ever became interesting by not failing. The more you fail and recover and improve, the better you are as a person. Ever meet someone who's always had everything work out for them with zero struggle? They usually have the depth of a puddle. Or they don't exist.

  Chris Hardwick

  Inspiring, Zero, Famous Inspirational

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.37, Penguin

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• He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.

  Horace

  New Beginnings, Deeds Done, Addiction

  Horace (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Horace (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• You become what you behold.

  William Blake

  Inspiration, Addiction

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• Learning is about failure and recovery from failure.

  Roger Schank

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• Each day the world is born anew for him who takes it rightly.

  James Russell Lowell

  New Beginnings, Addiction, Each Day

  James Russell Lowell (1871). “The poetical works of James Russell Lowell”, p.416

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• You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Get Well, Sick, Wells

  Kurt Vonnegut (1998). “Timequake”, p.148, Penguin

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• Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within.

  Epictetus

  Fighting, Over You, Despair

  Epictetus (1866). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses, in Four Books, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.354

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