The concept of recovery is rooted in the simple yet profound realization that people who have been diagnosed with mental illness are human beings.
— Patricia Deegan
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
Nature paces its change in gradual steps, and in this time of renewal, I danced in sync to the rhythm of life.
— Lynn C. Tolson
It is a beautiful and scary thing to sit open-handed and let all your plans float away like dust.
— Anna White
Buy this book , buy this book , you need this book, buy book now.'Subliminal messaging works! — Nick Jimbanis
The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it. — Criss Jami
Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it. — Marian Keyes
To change one's field of influence is to change the course of one's life. — Jenny Reese Clark
The winds of tribulation blow out some men's candles of commitment.(Maxwell) Our job in recovery is to protect our candle from those winds. — Roger Stark
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
Adversity is neither friend nor foe. It is a common acquaintance that is desired less and rewarded most when embraced. — Carolyn Wells
Self-discovery is life recovery. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal. — Aberjhani
Day by day, what you do is who you become. — Heraclitus
Compulsive behavior occurs when the urge to act out is greater than our will to say no. Recovery then, is the process of reversing that equation. — Roger Stark
Try never to abandon hope for if you do, hope will surely try to abandon you. — Sally Brampton
But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. — George S. McGovern
When I came out of anesthesia, I wanted two things: my husband and my dog. They wouldn't let the dog in the recovery room. — Sandy Nathan
Our wounds are not a measure of one individual's sad fate, but an indication of our unity with others. — Lynn C. Tolson
You were born a child of light's wonderful secret - you return to the beauty you have always been. — Aberjhani
My hand-stitched wings itchto take flight
to test the winds of change
that inevitably blow
at the end
of a cycle. — B.G. Bowers
Only love can neutralize shame. — Omar Manejwala
When you fail, you can resist correction or cooperate in your recovery and future success. — David P. Ingerson
Without struggle there is no progress. — Allison Woyiwada
Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery. — J.K. Rowling
Someone once asked me how I hold my head up so high after all I have been through. I said it's because no matter what, I am a survivor NOT a victim. — Patricia Buckley
Always love, always encourage, and never let despair get in the way. — Super Star
Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'. — Laurie Davidson
Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole. — China Mieville
The goal of recovery is not to become normal. The goal is to embrace the human vocation of becoming more deeply, more fully human. — Patricia Deegan
