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Inspirational Recovery Quotes

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Oscar Wilde

When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

Benjamin Disraeli

When you have come to the edge of all light that you know and are about to drop off into the darkness of the unknown, Faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will

be something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

Patrick Overton

Do not wait; the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

Napoleon Hill

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; that's why they call it the present.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

Bill W.

You become what you think about.

Earl Nightingale

I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish He didn't trust me so much.

Mother Teresa

Faith is taking the first step even whenyou don't see the wholestaircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing but in rising up every time we fail.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

African Proverb

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Mahatma Gandhi

The only thing that stands between a man and what he wants from life is often merely the will to try it and the faith to believe that it is possible.

Richard M. DeVos

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

Buddha

We will find only what we look for, nothing more and nothing less.

Anonymous

If you wait to do everything until you're sure it's right, you'll probably never do much of anything.

Win Borden

Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.

Aldous Huxley

We are either progressing or retrograding all the while; there is no such thing as remaining stationary in this life.

James Freeman Clarke

Take heed: you do not find what you do not seek.

English Proverb

"I can't do it" never yet accomplished anything; "I will try" has performed wonders.

George P. Burnham

Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm ... As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands. One for helping yourself, the

other for helping others.

Audrey Hepburn

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

Bill W.

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

Zig Ziglar

So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key.

The Eagles

Some make it happen, some watch it happen, and some say, "What happened?"

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Anonymous

Holding anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.

Gautam Buddha

A difficult time can be more readily endured if we retain the conviction that our existence holds a purpose - a cause to pursue, a person to love, a goal to achieve.

John Maxwell

Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but

the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

Norman Vincent Peale

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

Abraham Lincoln

Dreams not pursued by action are simply that, dreams with little prospect of being attained. Action taken without a plan or direction is simply that-- action with little prospect ofsuccess. Tie the plan and the action together and the dreams can become reality.

Julie V. Watson

Heaven never helps the man who will not act.

Sophocles

If you're not sure where you're going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.

Anonymous

Yesterday is but a dream, and tomorrow is only a vision, but today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness and every tomorrow a vision of hope.

Anonymous

There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; theres only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen.

Wayne Dyer

The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice.

Day by day, what you choose, what you think, and what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny ... it is the light that guides your way.

Heraclitus {535-475BC Greek Philosopher}

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Dr. Seuss

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible, it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than

any material possession could.

Barbara DeAngelis

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Vincent van Gogh

You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

Mahatma Gandhi

A man is not old until regrets start taking place of dreams.

Anonymous

The successful person has the habit of doing the things failures don't like to do. They don't like doing them either necessarily. But their disliking is subordinated to the strength oftheir purpose.

E.M. Gray

It is never too late to live happily ever after.

Anonymous

Religion is for people who are afraid they'll go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.

Anonymous

Recovery will never open the gates of heaven to let you in, but it does open the gates of hell to let you out.

Anonymous

Having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting someone else to die.

Anonymous

I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened

upon me, spiritually and financially.

Denzel Washington

My basic problem is that I flee from those who want me and I pursue the rejecters.

Anonymous

Seven days without a meeting makes one weak.

Anonymous

Recovery is a journey between two train stations. One station represents unhappiness and the other represents serenity. What is important is not where we are, but who is

driving (us or God) and what direction we are heading.

Anonymous

When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Fear knocked on my door...I opened it and there was nobody there.

Anonymous

True humility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking less about yourself.

Anonymous

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul

perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It

exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours."

Ayn Rand

It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing what we have for the betterment of

personkind, bringing hope to the lost and love to the lonely.

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Leo Buscaglia

Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.

Leo Buscaglia

At the bottom is always the best soil to sow and grow something new again.

In that sense, hitting (rock) bottom, while extremely painful, is also the perfect sowing ground.

That being said, before we can begin to grow, we must first realize that we are bogged down. (Step 1)

WJM

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