Addiction Recovery Quotes
Collection of top 74 famous quotes about Addiction Recovery
Addiction Recovery Quotes & Sayings
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Checking your ego, abandoning it, letting it go, is a huge part of recovery from addiction.
— Susannah Grant
He's been injecting the anti-aging hormone into his wife.
— Dianne Harman
Addiction does not cause partner abuse, and recovery from addiction does not "cure" partner abuse.
— Lundy Bancroft
We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.
— Stephen J. Pasierb
I recovered from recovering so no longer celebrate not doing bad things to defend myself as good. I added new bad for good measure.
— Brian Spellman
Karl Marx: "Religion is the opiate of the masses."Carrie Fisher: "I did masses of opiates religiously. — Carrie Fisher
Not being a man of means, I knew that if I did not stay sober enough to earn money, I would run out of liquor.
— Alcoholics Anonymous
He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him feel.
— Dianne Harman
She pulled off the highway and quickly changed into the burkha.
— Dianne Harman
Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.
— Samantha Leahy
Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.
— David Stafford
When we are forced to endure what we cannot endure, something breaks inside our minds. That broken-mindedness is commonly called trauma.
— John A. Macdougall
Issues are like tissues. You pull one out and another appears!
— Gary Goldstein
Hitting bottom is an inside job - it's something that happens within our consciousness.
— Christopher Dines
Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.
— Steven Kassels
They say you can't build Rome in a day, but I'm pretty sure you could destroy it in even less.
— Kris Kidd
Note: addiction diverts attention
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.
— Toni Sorenson
It will all be over in 2 weeks
— Ken Novak
Getting sober is a radically creative act.
— Meredith Bell
The Old Ones say you can feel your spirit during a Vision Quest.
— Dianne Harman
This madman must be stopped.
— Dianne Harman
I am a work in progress.
— Violet Yates
Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.
— Mariel Hemingway
She realized with shock now that her current husband also had a mistress. Her name was cocaine.
— Doreen Dyet
Part of me felt deep compassion. And another part felt like, You fucker.
— Augusten Burroughs
The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.
— Debra L. Kaplan
I've been married but I'm not anymore. And I still believe in love.
— Nick Saint Clair
I couldn't stop so I quit.
— Brian Spellman
There's talk he's become emotionally unhinged.
— Dianne Harman
Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.
— David Foster Wallace
Alcohol is the fuel to your pains. Share you pains and you will see how easy it is to quit alcohol.
— Srinivas Shenoy
Do not let your fire go out.
— Ayn Rand
An intensely gripping narrative ... expertly crafted and totally addictive ... a must read!
— Maggie Reese
First Embody the Emptiness of SilenceNext Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love
Thus Be Heaven
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If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
— Benjamin Alire Saenz
You are in recovery if you say you are.
— Phil Valentine
We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.
— Steven Kassels
Fathers who initiate their sons' first sexual experiences by taking them to prostitutes might as well deal them a crack pipe.
— Birgit Waldschmidt
Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
— Jean Kilbourne
There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
— Moshe Kasher
The silver flask called to him.Blue Coyote Motel — Dianne Harman
You don't need to hide the fact that you're in recovery, but you don't have to share your history of addiction with acquaintances at work, either.
— Mallory Ortberg
My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.
— Martin Sheen
Did she answer my email yet?' That's the new obesity.
— Tom Rachman
How sad that I couldn't get myself sober to share a life with him, but I could do it to show him I didn't need him.
— Josh Lanyon
The further I get into recovery, the less I know.
— Phil Valentine
Drinking is something people do; it's not what you are. But when it becomes what you are, you need to think about becoming something else.
— Tim Cowlishaw
The horrible thing about being sober is you lose your excuse for being so fucked up.
— Augusten Burroughs
Be aware of your addiction to the addicted.
— Jennifer Ho-Dougatz
Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.
— Simon Weston
You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.
— Seth Adam Smith
It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.
— Steven Kassels
I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live
— Joseph Meyering Sr
There is no external solution to the problem of insecurity.
— Stefan Molyneux
Her screams are heard across generations who dared not scream and died without joy,in silence and isolation. — David W. Earle
Always make your familial environment a safe and inviting place.
— Asa Don Brown
Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places
— Gordon Rouston
