Recovery Quotes - Page 22

• Solitude is a necessary protest to the incursions and the false alarms of society's hysteria, a period of cure and recovery.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Hysteria, Solitude, Alarms

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1965). “Who is Man?”, p.44, Stanford University Press

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• Three half-mile repeats on the track at 5-K race pace with a short recovery jog in between shouldn't scare anyone away-and it will improve your speed.

  Frank Shorter

  Race, Track, Scare

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• I dwell in possibility.

  Emily Dickinson

  Inspirational, Addiction, House

  "I dwell in possibility" l. 1 (ca. 1862)

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• The most important thing about recovery is to pass the message on.

  Maurice Gibb

  Important, Messages, Important Things

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• "The ultimate recession": a recession caused not by failed regulation and bankers' greed, but by very high oil prices, food and water shortages, disappearing forests, accelerating climate change, forced migration and mass civil disruption...The long and the short of it, unfortunately, is this: more politicians still believe that economic recovery depends on continuing to live beyond our means (financially and ecologically) than on learning to live within our means. And that's why the ultimate "Perfect Storm" recession still looms on the horizon

  Jonathon Porritt

  Business, Believe, Mean

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• What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Being Strong, Confidence, Courage

  Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). “The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in-law, J. Van Gogh-Bonger ...”

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• We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.

  Alexander Haig

  Country, Years, Long

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• Valor consists in the power of self recovery.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Courage, Power, Self

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.179, Penguin

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• Recovery challenges the established order and as such, is a 'great idea' along with the ideas of evolution or a 'round earth'; turning all our thinking upside down.

  Laurie Davidson

  Inspirational, Thinking, Order

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• 'Recovery' is an idea whose time has come. At its heart is a set of values about a person's right to build a meaningful life for themselves, with or without the continuing presence of mental health symptoms.

  Geoff Shepherd

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Heart

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• Recovery is not a gift from clinicians, but the responsibility of us all. We must become confident in our own ability to change our lives, we must give up being reliant on others doing everything for us. We must have the confidence to give up being ill so that we can start being recovered.

  Ronnie Coleman

  Inspirational, Giving Up, Responsibility

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• All it has experienced, tasted, suffered: The course of years, generations of animals, Oppression, recovery, friendship of sun and - Wind Will pour forth each day in the song Of its rustling foliage, in the friendly Gesture of its gently swaying crown, In the delicate sweet scent of resinous Sap moistening the sleep-glued buds, And the eternal game of lights and Shadows it plays with itself, content.

  Hermann Hesse

  Song, Sweet, Sleep

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• While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.

  Barney Frank

  Jobs, Numbers, Historical

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• Lying is like alcoholism. You are always recovering.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Liars, Lying, Alcoholism

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• Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.

  Alistair Darling

  Cutting, Wrecks, Faster

  "Electing the Conservatives is a risk we must not take" by Alistair Darling, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2009.

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• I'm not a poster boy for good behavior and recovery in Hollywood, I'm just a guy who knows he has a lot to be grateful for.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Grateful, Boys, Guy

  "I rose from the ashes" by Dotson Rader, Parade Magazine, April 20, 2008.

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• I have other obligations now - the show, my family, my life... though I know that without my sobriety I wouldn't have any of those things.

  Rob Lowe

  Inspirational, Addiction, Sobriety

  "Lowe profile" by Jessica Berens, www.theguardian.com. July 8, 2001.

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• I don't want to go negative on Franklin Delano Roosevelt, but he didn't pass an economic deal in the first 100 days. We have passed the largest Recovery Act in the history of the country.

  Rahm Emanuel

  Country, Negative, Want

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

  Gabor Mate

  Pain, Addiction

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• One must not forget that recovery is brought about not by the physician, but by the sick man himself. He heals himself, by his own power, exactly as he walks by means of his own power, or eats, or thinks, breathes or sleeps.

  Georg Groddeck

  Cancer, Healing, Health

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• It is dangerous to abandon one's self to the luxury of grief; it deprives one of courage, and even of the wish for recovery.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Courage, Grief, Self

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• Given the rest of the economic news, including the fact that GDP growth is positive, inflation is still low, jobless claims are still moving downward and temporary services are firming up, that means the recovery continues, and we hope it will continue in a more robust fashion.

  Elaine Chao

  Fashion, Moving, Mean

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• Know thyself. Accept thyself. Love thyself. No matter what you have done, where you have been, know, accept, and love who you are.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Loss, Self Love, And Love

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Jan 12, 2016

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• 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, Disease

  Bell Hooks, Cornel West (1991). “Breaking bread: insurgent Black intellectual life”, South End Pr

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• Juice Plus+ is great stuff that I have used through all of my expeditions. What I like about it is that the research behind it is so strong. It is 100% natural, is whole food based, and I love the fact that it provides raw, anti-oxidant fruit and veg in a capsule form. For me it fulfills a key part of my nutrition, training and recovery needs.

  Bear Grylls

  Strong, Keys, Training

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