1,260 Quotes About Recovery

Update your version of me because I’m not the same person I was before. If you don’t get that, you don’t get me.

You’re not addicted to a drink or a drug; you’re addicted to the chemical cocktail your brain serves up when you feed your addiction.

You don’t recover by stopping the old, but by starting the new. You’ll go back to your old ways unless you create new ways.

You can numb the pain, but that hasn’t erased your problem, it’s just given it time to grow.

Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously.

In addition to reaching out for help, you will also need to reach within yourself. Your biggest ally will be your emotions. Through them, you will learn more about what really happened to you, how the abuse affected you, and what you need to do in order to heal. Your emotions will enable you to reclaim the self you long ago hid away.

Miranda waited, then said, 'But what will I do for a whole year?'Neither of them answered her. She supposed the answer was, Get better. The thought of a slow and measured crawl back to health filled her with black sand.

You’ll go back to your old ways unless you create new ways.

Thinking about your problem is like watering your house plant. You only make it grow.