174 Quotes About Addiction-and-recovery

Our liberation comes through a person, not a system of ideas and principles. "Everything we need for life and godliness" ultimately comes "through our knowledge of Jesus Christ" (2 Peter 1:3).

Alice would often remind me, 'Toxic people tend to think that you being triggered is extreme. Nah, that’s just called boundaries.

Careful how you judge others. At some point you have been, or will be all of them.” ― Frank Ruhl Peterson

Today I share about my addiction and recovery journey as often as possible because I don't want to die all alone in a dark closet, shrouded in shame beside the decomposing skeletons I tried so desperately to hide. I want to live.

Blame equals pain. Lies equal pain. Secrets equal pain. It’s as simple as that.

I’m humbled by my feebleness in helping this person. Humbled that I had the arrogance to believe I’d seen and heard it all. You can never see and hear it all because, for all their sordid similarities, each story [...] unfolded in the particular existence of a unique human being.

Not the world, not what’s outside of us, but what we hold inside traps us. We may not be responsible for the world that created our minds, but we can take responsibility for the mind with which we create our world.

As much as a child's birthday is important to a parent, as much as twenty one meant to me, a year in recovery means more.

Acceptance in the context of adult-to-adult relationships may mean simply acknowledging that the other is the way he or she is, not judging them and not corroding one’s own soul with resentment that they are not different. Acceptance does not mean saintly self-sacrifice or tolerating an eternity of broken promises and hurtful eruptions of frustration and rage.