QUOTES ABOUT RECOVERY
“It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
“If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome.” – Michael Jordan
“Recovery is about progression, not perfection.” – Unknown
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.” – Demi Lovato
“You have to break down before you can breakthrough.” – Marilyn Ferguson
“The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.” – Anonymous
“Life is a series of relapses and recoveries.” – George Ade
“The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
“Addiction denied is recovery delayed.”- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“First, you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Your addiction is not you, but it feels like you because you’ve spent so much intimate time together.” – Toni Sorenson
“I’m not telling you it is going to be easy. I’m telling you it’s going to be worth it!” – Anonymous
“I am not defined by my relapses, but by my decision to remain in recovery despite them.” – Anonymous
“Remember that just because you hit bottom doesn’t mean you have to stay there.” – Robert Downey Jr.
“Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” – J.K. Rowling
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Before you can break out of prison, you must realise you are locked up.” – Anonymous
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” – Hecato
“What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger — something better, pushing right back.” – Albert Camus
“Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny.”– C.S. Lewis
‘Hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and good things never die.’ – Stephen King
“Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.” – Brian Tracy
“Every noble work is at first impossible.” – Thomas Carlyle
“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” – Robert Louis Stevenson