Recovery Quotes - Page 5

• Being near her was like balancing on a tipping world, trying to keep your footing as the ground wanted to roll you forward, hurl you into a spiral from which there was no recovery, only impact, and it was a longed-for impact, a sweet and beckoning collision.

  Laini Taylor

  Sweet, Impact, Trying

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• I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

  Michael Jordan

  Motivational, Positive, Basketball

  Michael Jordan (1994). “I can't accept not trying: Michael Jordan on the pursuit of excellence”

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• To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.

  William James

  Life, Positive, Art

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• Cocaine for me was a place to hide. Most people get hyper on coke. It slowed me down. Sometimes it made me paranoid and impotent, but mostly it just made me withdrawn.

  Robin Williams

  People, Addiction, Alcohol

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• No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

  George Chakiris

  Love, Hope, Dark

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• For Europe, the fall of Communism has to be taken into account, and the fact that in the fight against Communism the recovery of Europe's Christian roots was the driving force.

  Rocco Buttiglione

  Christian, Fall, Taken

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• You've recognised a fundamental feature of an addict's life. Maintaining your habit is so important you've no real interest in anything else.

  Marian Keyes

  Real, Addiction, Important

  Marian Keyes (2005). “Rachel's Holiday”, p.245, Penguin UK

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• There are many reasons for violence. This is just something that sometimes happens. We'd see it in treatment centers - the child who'd suffered something awful. Even in the best recovery there'd be a fear that everything would fall apart and they'd become victims again. And their final loyalty was to themselves. They couldn't be forced. They preferred to wreck everything, preferred self-destruction to surrender. (175)

  Stephen Dobyns

  Loyalty, Children, Fall

  Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.203, Penguin

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• Any honest examination of the national life proves how far we are from the standard of human freedom with which we began. The recovery of this standard demands of everyone who loves this country a hard look at himself, for the greatest achievements must begin somewhere, and they always begin with the person.

  James A. Baldwin

  Country, Justice, Diversity

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• A few minutes?" Feeling suddenly shy, she crossed her arms over her chest. The smile on his face widened, becoming touched with the feral wildness of the cat. It made thinking difficult. "I believed males needed a longer recovery time to mate." "Not this kitty cat." Rising to his feet, he said, "Get ready to play.

  Nalini Singh

  Cat, Thinking, Play

  Nalini Singh (2012). “Nalini Singh: The Psy-Changeling Series”, p.1830, Penguin

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• By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.

  Charles L. Whitfield

  Real, Healthy, Earth

  Charles L. Whitfield (2010). “Boundaries and Relationships: Knowing, Protecting and Enjoying the Self”, p.59, Health Communications, Inc.

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• One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

  Edward Burgess Butler

  Motivational, Leadership, Perseverance

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• A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.

  Vera Nazarian

  Self Esteem, Glasses, Broken

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• While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.

  Chelsea Handler

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

  Chelsea Handler (2009). “Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• All my life, I'd been on the receiving end of my mother's endless tenderness and vigilant care. Being allowed to care for her during her recovery was a gift – the most rewarding experience in my life.

  Kristin Chenoweth

  Mother, Receiving, Care

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• Let me claim that Africa and I kept company for a while and then parted ways as if we were both party to relations with a failed outcome. Or say I was afflicted with Africa like a bout of a rare disease from which I have not managed a full recovery.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Party, Disease, Outcomes

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.13, Faber & Faber

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• Where there is life, there is hope.

  Alyson Noel

  Motivational, Hope, Life Lesson

  Alyson Noel (2010). “Dark Flame”, p.191, Pan Macmillan

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• History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.

  Aberjhani

  Love, Strength, Grief

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.21, Lulu.com

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• Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Encouraging, Self Esteem

  Twitter post from Dec 05, 2014

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• It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.

  Camille Paglia

  Europe, Ideas, Tradition

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• Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.

  Bucky Sinister

  Christian, Mean, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I've seen optimism because I grew up in communities of recovery where people put their lives back together and find tomorrows that they didn't think would be there. That fundamentally changed my life and is so much of where my hope comes from.

  Deray McKesson

  Thinking, People, Optimism

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• A level of anxiety and tension and outright fear that so many people have felt, not only during the recession but during this slow economic recovery since. This made me very much want to up the conversation about how miracle-minded thinking applies to that area of life.

  Marianne Williamson

  Thinking, People, Miracle

  "A Conversation with Marianne Williamson: Powerful pioneer in new thought and spirituality". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Recovery culture teaches you that you have to repent. I don't think that's necessary.

  Zachary Cole Smith

  Thinking, Culture, Teach

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Most memoirs about alcoholism, promiscuity, and addiction are deep, sobering tales full of scars that will never heal and include alarming statistics and reflection about recovery.This is not one of those memoirs.

  Kate Madison

  Reflection, Addiction, Statistics

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