Recovery Quotes - Page 25

• Drugs are not always necessary. Belief in recovery always is.

  Norman Cousins

  Healing, Nursing, Nurse

  Norman Cousins (2016). “Anatomy of an Illness as Perceived by the Patient: Reflections on Healing and Regeneration”, p.17, Open Road Media

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• During any moment in which you're experiencing thoughts that make you feel sick or bad, do your best to change them to thoughts that support the idea of feeling good. Refuse to talk about disease, and work to activate thoughts that predict recovery and overall well-being.

  Wayne Dyer

  Ideas, Sick, Support

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Aug 31, 2009

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• Valor consists in the power of self-recovery, so that a man cannot have his flank turned, cannot be out-generalled, but put him where you will, he stands.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Self, Valor

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.70, Penguin

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• The problem is that you don't just choose recovery. You have to keep choosing recovery, over and over and over again. You have to make that choice 5-6 times each day. You have to make that choice even when you really don't want to. It's not a single choice, and it's not easy.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Choices, Each Day, Want

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• The more the government intervenes to delay the market's adjustment, the longer and more grueling the depression will be, and the more difficult will be the road to complete recovery.

  Murray Rothbard

  Government, Delay, Difficult

  Robert Wenzel, Murray Rothbard (2014). “Austrian School Business Cycle Theory”, p.23, Lulu.com

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• Step confidently forward in the precisely the direction that is the most challenging to you. Because in that same direction, you'll also find what is most rewarding to you.

  Ralph Marston

  Challenges, Steps

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• Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Uplifting, Creativity, Doors

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• The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.

  Heraclitus

  Inspirational, Integrity, Character

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• We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

  James Freeman Clarke

  Inspirational, Progress, Scrapbooking

  "Edge-Tools of Speech". Book by Maturin M. Ballou (p. 397), 1886.

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• Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

  Michio Kushi

  Love, Prayer, Decision

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• Just because your world is falling apart doesn't mean you have to fall apart. When everything seems crazy, you be calm. Don't let the outer chaos you are facing get inside of you.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Crazy, Fall, Mean

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• In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

  Bill W.

  Inspirational, Humility, Lessons

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• We only hurt others because we don't love ourselves. Learning to truly love yourself changes your relationship with everyone.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Hurt, Love You, Loss

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• Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Time, Wonderful, Hang In There

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• The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot.

  Mark Twain

  Animal, Intelligent, Men

  Mark Twain (2009). “Mark Twain’s Book of Animals”, p.264, Univ of California Press

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• Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Character, May

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2003). “The Power of Positive Thinking: 10 Traits for Maximum Results”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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• He believed that he must, that he could and would recover the good things, the happy things, the easy tranquil things of life. He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted--must be relinquished. What else could one do about it? Things were too complex, but they might be reduced to simplicity again. Recovery was possible.

  Saul Bellow

  Mistake, Simplicity, Might

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• It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Inspirational, Life, Hope

  "Love". Book by Leo Buscaglia, 1972.

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• I am angry that I starved my brain and that I sat shivering in my bed at night instead of dancing or reading poetry or eating ice cream or kissing a boy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Reading, Kissing, Boys

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism 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, Addiction

  bell hooks, Cornel West (2016). “Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life”, p.125, Taylor & Francis

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• You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.

  Aberjhani

  Inspirational, Children, Light

  Aberjhani (2012). “Visions of a Skylark Dresed in Black (HB Gift Edition)”, p.97, Lulu.com

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  What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Success, Hope

  Oscar Wilde (1984). “The Importance of Being Earnest”, p.41, Dramatic Publishing

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• It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Encouragement

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• We simply can no longer afford to deny the full potential of one half of the population. The world needs to tap into the talent and wisdom of women. Whether the issue is food security, economic recovery, health, or peace and security, the participation of women is needed now more than ever.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Wisdom, Women, Issues

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• Judge nothing, you will be happy. Forgive everything, you will be happier. Love everything, you will be happiest.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Love, Happiness, Romantic

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