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Recovery Reflections
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Lose with truth and right rather than gain with falsehood and wrong.
Maimonides -
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt -
It always seems impossible until it’s done.
Nelson Mandela -
"The bad news is time flies, the good news is your the pilot"
Michael Altschuler -
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.
Michael Jordan -
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw -
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.
Alice Walker -
We are either progressing or retrograding all the while, there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.
James Freeman Clarke -
When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.
Henry Ford -
If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.
Zen proverb -
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost -
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 -
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”– C.S. Lewis
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When you have a choice to make and don’t make it, that is in itself a choice.
William James -
And in the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.
Abraham Lincoln -
If things go wrong, don’t go with them.
Roger Babson -
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Thomas Carlyle -
Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.
Carrie Fisher -
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.
C. S. Lewis -
Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.
Leon Brown -
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Albert Einstien -
Sometimes you just got to give yourself what you wish someone else would give you.
Dr. Phil -
What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.
Victor Hugo -
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 -
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates -
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth -
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Robert Louis Stevenson -
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
Benjamin Alire Sáenz -
The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.
Chinese proverb -
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein -
Mistakes are always forgivable if one has the courage to admit them.
Bruce Lee -
“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
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Man never made any material as resilient as the human spirit.
Bernard Williams -
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
Brian Tracy -
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 -
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don’t paddle your own canoe, you don’t move.
Katharine Hepburn -
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell
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Where there is life, there is hope.
Ron Grover -
My worst days in recovery are better than the best days in relapse.
Kate Le Page -
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 hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.
Vincent Van Gogh -
The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving.
Oliver Wendell Holmes -
It is never too late to be what you might have been.
T. S. Elliot -
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard -
Either you run the day, or the day runs you.
Jim Rohn -
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde -
People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.
Zig Ziglar -
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 -
Fall seven times, stand up eight.
Japanese proverb -
Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.
Brian Tracy -
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you
Aldous Huxley -
Don’t let the past steal your present.
Terri Guillemets -
Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow.
Larry Michael Dredla -
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 -
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 -
Recovery is all about using our power to change our beliefs that are based on faulty data.
Kevin McCormack
