Recovery quotes

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◆ You will lose someone you can't live without,and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn't seal back up. And you come through. It's like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

- Anne Lamott100

◆ I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.

- Ann Richards99

◆ It is not true that everyone is special. It is true that everyone was once special and still possesses the ability to recover it.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.

- Craig Ferguson99

◆ History dressed up in the glow of love's kiss turned grief into beauty.

- Aberjhani99

◆ One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.

- Mike Norton99

◆ One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity

- Roddy Doyle99

◆ stars are the scars of the universe

- Ricky Maye99

◆ Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven's mouth.

- Aberjhani99

◆ Trauma does not have to occur by abuse alone...

- Asa Don Brown99

◆ it's not how far you fall, but how high you bounce that counts.

- Zig Ziglar99

◆ Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.

- Bucky Sinister99

◆ Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

- Mark Twain99

◆ Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

- Aberjhani99

◆ I felt empty and sad for years, and for a long, long time, alcohol worked. I'd drink, and all the sadness would go away. Not only did the sadness go away, but I was fantastic. I was beautiful, funny, I had a great figure, and I could do math. But at some point, the booze stopped working. That's when drinking started sucking. Every time I drank, I could feel pieces of me leaving. I continued to drink until there was nothing left. Just emptiness.

- Dina Kucera99