Top Recovery Quotes

At the lip of a cliff, I look out over Lake Superior, through the bare branches of birches and the snow-covered branches of aspens and pines. A hard wind blows snow up out of a cavern and over my face...

When I realized that my body had been damaged from adverse environmental exposures, I decided to use it for medical research and to develop the recovery techniques.

Recovery Definition

(n.) The act of recovering, regaining, or retaking possession.

(n.) Restoration from sickness, weakness, faintness, or the like; restoration from a condition of mistortune, of fright, etc.

(n.) The obtaining in a suit at law of a right to something by a verdict and judgment of court.

(n.) The getting, or gaining, of something not previously had.

(n.) In rowing, the act of regaining the proper position for making a new stroke.

A lot of people who find out about the things I do immediately figure I'm just a pathetic "druggie" with nothing to say that is worth hearing. They talk endless bull shit of "recovery!" They make it s...

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transformsthe diseased slums of a broken heartinto a palace made of psalms and gold.

That was the crux. You. Only you could work on you. Nobody could force you, and if you weren't ready, then you weren't ready, and no amount of open-armed encouragement was going to change that.

You are a warrior in a dark forest, with no compass and are unable to tell who the actual enemy is, So you never feel safe ..

Despair was strength. Despair was the scab and the scar. The walled city in a time of plague. A closed fortification. A sure thing, because it was always safer, less painful to stop trying than it was...

I don't have the perfect roadmap drawn out, but I do know which roads I'll never drive down again.

To give up power to change for the better is inherently distasteful to everyone, and to force people to affirm that they are addicts or alcoholics so they can speak in a meeting is shameful and demora...

You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious.

This will sound strange, and yet I'm sure it was the point: it was a bit like being high. That, for me, anyway, had always been the attraction of drugs, to stop the brutal round of hypercritical think...

God is the source of life. Life without God is hopeless. But life with God is an endless hope

Eradication of pain, deviant, or oppositional behaviors does not indicate healing; however, it can signify successful conditioning.

Life isn't like a Full House episode. There isn't going to be an easy out to every conflict. There is no milkman, paperboy, or evening TV. There are good moments and bad moments and not everything wil...

It is one thing to know about your dysfunctional habits but quite another to change them.

You did not invent these family habits. Your family is like mine, for thousands and thousands of years our families have embraced a dysfunctional lifestyle, passing these habits as gospel on to subseq...

Resiliency is not gender-, age-, or intellectually specific...

No soul sin beyond recovery.

Many people look at their past and bemoan their mistakes. Those errors in judgment, behavior, hurting others, and the wrong decisions may be what consumes them now. It does not have to be that way, fo...

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.