Volunteer Picnic 2025

"The bad news is time flies, the good news is your the pilot"

Michael Altschuler

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

Carrie Fisher

“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

Benjamin Alire Sáenz

I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.

Muhammad Ali

If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.

Michael Jordan

Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.

Dr. Phil

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

Joseph Campbell

If things go wrong, don’t go with them.

Roger Babson

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

Demi Lovato

The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.

Chinese proverb

My worst days in recovery are better than the best days in relapse.

Kate Le Page

The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is never too late to be what you might have been.

T. S. Elliot

Every noble work is at first impossible.

Thomas Carlyle

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

James Freeman Clarke

People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.

Bruce Lee

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.

Katharine Hepburn

Don’t let the past steal your present.

Terri Guillemets

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

Nelson Mandela

“If it wasn’t for that rehab center, I probably wouldn’t have been here. In terms of recovery, it has been very important for me to be a part of a recovery community, to actively be around my people because they understand me. They get it.” – Macklemore

Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.

C. S. Lewis

Believe you can and you’re halfway there.

Theodore Roosevelt

“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”– C.S. Lewis

When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.

Henry Ford

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Oscar Wilde

Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.

Maimonides

Either you run the day, or the day runs you.

Jim Rohn

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Those who weep recover more quickly than those who smile.

Jean Giraudoux

Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.

J. Petit Senn

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

Babe Ruth

Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.

Kevin McCormack

If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.

Vincent Van Gogh

Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.

Bernard Williams

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.

Elbert Hubbard

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.

Mahatma Gandhi

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

Robert Collier

I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Brontë

When you have a choice to make and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.

William James

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

Japanese proverb

The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow.

Larry Michael Dredla

If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.

Zen proverb

Where there is life, there is hope.

Ron Grover

Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.

Leon Brown

Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.

Brian Tracy

And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

The best way out is always through.

Robert Frost

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.

Carl Bard

Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.

Victor Hugo

The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

Socrates

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you

Aldous Huxley

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.

Alice Walker

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.

Jamie Lee Curtis

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

Brian Tracy

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.

Albert Einstein

In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Albert Einstien