174 Quotes About Addiction-and-recovery

I had to find something, ANYTHING to distract myself from myself. But you can’t run from yourself forever. No matter where you go, you are always there. No matter what you do to avoid being with yourself, you’ll always come back around to having to face you again.

It was more than loneliness, than isolation; it was a feeling of somehow being invisible and transparent at the same time, of sinking & slipping of falling away.

I wrote this book to show you that a cure is entirely possible because I've seen it happen over and over again.

Change must start from the individual. And the individual must want and feel ready to make such change.

Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy based on what is true in the Universe.

Who are we without our addictions; without our media-induced hungers? So often the voices we hear echoing in our mind are not our own but that of our influencers. Isolation, while arguably going against human nature, is essential for mental and emotional health. Solitude is a detoxification of all that distorts our personality and misguides our path in life. It allows us to filter out the foreign opinions and hear our own voice—reach our authentic character—and practice fidelity to self.

When we think we can manage our time, our circumstances, and our relationships without His help and inspiration, we know what unmanageability is.

All addictions are primitive and negative manifestations of a person's deeper needs. They are a sign that the person longs for a soul connection and an everlasting bliss.

A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs