1,260 Quotes About Recovery

If you allow yourself to feel, unconditionally.Eventually, it will become advantageous, influencing and fostering true resilience and adaptation.

Being able to be aware that we have thoughts, but that we are not our thoughts, is a major breakthrough for people seeking emotional health and spiritual wellbeing.

Many people in recovery find that they feel spiritually grounded when in regular contact with the great outdoors. Others feel a deep serenity after lighting a candle in a church or temple or by chanting a sacred mantra. The point is that, unlike a typical religion that lays out a non-negotiable ideology, spirituality is expansive and deeply personal.

I was being cured of soldiering on endlessly: my job was now to be still, which had become almost easy at last.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.

Something they seem to omit to mention in Boston AA when you're new and out of your skull with desperation and ready to eliminate your map and they tell you how it'll all get better and better as you abstain and recover: they somehow omit to mention that the way it gets better and you get better is through pain. Not around pain, or in spite of it.

Boundaries are not walls; they're portals and you decide who comes and goes into your sacred territory.

As many ways there are to “mess-up” in addiction; there are Just as many ways to clean-up during recovery.