Recovery Quotes
inspired thought, which some find are a good tool to help stay centered and focused on their personal recovery.
Try to be grateful and resentful at the sametime, you can't serve two.
Faith chases away fear.
We have to give it away to keep it.
Surrender to become Victorious.
Don't work my program, or your program, work "the program"
Gratitude, that's the attitude.
My worst day sober is better than my best day in my disease.
The elevator to sobriety is broken, take the steps.
Religion is for people who are afraid they'll go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.
The quality of your recovery is proportional to the quality of your surrender.
Tomorrow's a fantasy and yesterday's gone~ ~there's only today.
An expectation is a premeditated resentment.
You cannot save your rear and your face at the same time.
Resentment is the poison I take to hurt you.
You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Do not count the days, make the days count.
Refrain from envy it’s the source of much unhappiness.
Kindness cannot be taught by harshness - not by any amount of harshness.
Patience is counting down with out blasting off
Its’ okay to make plans but don't plan the outcomes.
Isolation is the Darkroom where I develop all my Negativity!
Do you want to be right or do you want to have peace?
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
Live in the answer, not in the problem.
Faith is not belief without proof; it's trust without reservation.
A self-sponsored person is a good example of unskilled labor.
Stay a little longer, try a little harder.
The first step adds years to my life, the rest add life to my years.
Depression: Anger without the enthusiasm...
There is no pain in change; the pain comes from the resistance to change.
Recovery is a journey between two stations. One station represents total chaos, and the other represents total serenity. What is important is not where you are, but what direction you are facing.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.
Surrender is a process not an event.
My favorite definition of suggestion: Your house is on fire, I suggest you get out
Love and recovery are idle potential. They become real when they are shared.
To forgive is to be released from the bondage of self
We are not measured by what we do, but by the things we overcome.
It is the smallest of moments that define my sobriety.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
If someone's throwing dirt on you, they're losing ground.
Just get out of your own way and relax. You can't be hateful when you're grateful.
A great remedy for anger is delay.
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A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Every time I close the door on reality, it comes back through the window.
Fear is faith turned inside out.
Formula for failure: Try to please everyone.
In life, pain is necessary; suffering is optional..
Hearing is a gift, listening is an art.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
If you can't love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody.
Forgiveness is a gift of high value, yet it costs nothing.
It is better to look ahead and prepare, than look back and regret.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live for it.
It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
Resentments are like peeing your pants; nobody else feels it but you.
It is not the load that breaks you down but the way you carry it.
My head is like a bad neighborhood and I shouldn't go in there alone.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Jumping to conclusions is a bad exercise.
If you share your pain you cut it in half, if you don't you double it.
Courage is fear in action.
Attitudes are contagious--is yours worth catching.
Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
Minds are like parachutes for they function ONLY when OPEN.
Courage is mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of a better past.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Remember.... Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them as much.
Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs.
Some people develop eyestrain looking for trouble.
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but were all in the same boat.
Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. And between the two my life flows.
Failure isn't in falling down; it's in failing to get back up.
A smile is a curve that can set things straight.
Serenity isn’t freedom from the storm; it is peace within the storm.
You can tell the size of the man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
I am not responsible for my feelings; but what I do with them.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher, it gives you the test first and; the lesson afterwards.
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Only an open mind can be healed.
If you still haven't found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, just enjoy the rainbow.
People do not fail, they give up trying.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Identify - Don't compare.
Every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Self-pity is your worst enemy.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Life is a hospital, in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
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inspired thought, which some find are a good tool to help stay centered and focused on their personal recovery.
Try to be grateful and resentful at the sametime, you can't serve two.
Faith chases away fear.
We have to give it away to keep it.
Surrender to become Victorious.
Don't work my program, or your program, work "the program"
Gratitude, that's the attitude.
My worst day sober is better than my best day in my disease.
The elevator to sobriety is broken, take the steps.
Religion is for people who are afraid they'll go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have been there.
The quality of your recovery is proportional to the quality of your surrender.
Tomorrow's a fantasy and yesterday's gone~ ~there's only today.
An expectation is a premeditated resentment.
You cannot save your rear and your face at the same time.
Resentment is the poison I take to hurt you.
You can't direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
Do not count the days, make the days count.
Refrain from envy it’s the source of much unhappiness.
Kindness cannot be taught by harshness - not by any amount of harshness.
Patience is counting down with out blasting off
Its’ okay to make plans but don't plan the outcomes.
Isolation is the Darkroom where I develop all my Negativity!
Do you want to be right or do you want to have peace?
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
Live in the answer, not in the problem.
Faith is not belief without proof; it's trust without reservation.
A self-sponsored person is a good example of unskilled labor.
Stay a little longer, try a little harder.
The first step adds years to my life, the rest add life to my years.
Depression: Anger without the enthusiasm...
There is no pain in change; the pain comes from the resistance to change.
Recovery is a journey between two stations. One station represents total chaos, and the other represents total serenity. What is important is not where you are, but what direction you are facing.
People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it however.
Surrender is a process not an event.
My favorite definition of suggestion: Your house is on fire, I suggest you get out
Love and recovery are idle potential. They become real when they are shared.
To forgive is to be released from the bondage of self
We are not measured by what we do, but by the things we overcome.
It is the smallest of moments that define my sobriety.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
If someone's throwing dirt on you, they're losing ground.
Just get out of your own way and relax. You can't be hateful when you're grateful.
A great remedy for anger is delay.
SPONSORS: Have One.. Use One.. Be One.
A pessimist is someone who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.
Every time I close the door on reality, it comes back through the window.
Fear is faith turned inside out.
Formula for failure: Try to please everyone.
In life, pain is necessary; suffering is optional..
Hearing is a gift, listening is an art.
What other people think of you is none of your business.
If you can't love everybody today, at least try not to hurt anybody.
Forgiveness is a gift of high value, yet it costs nothing.
It is better to look ahead and prepare, than look back and regret.
It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live for it.
It is nice to be important, but more important to be nice.
Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from poor judgment.
Resentments are like peeing your pants; nobody else feels it but you.
It is not the load that breaks you down but the way you carry it.
My head is like a bad neighborhood and I shouldn't go in there alone.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.
Jumping to conclusions is a bad exercise.
If you share your pain you cut it in half, if you don't you double it.
Courage is fear in action.
Attitudes are contagious--is yours worth catching.
Life is what happens while you're making other plans.
Minds are like parachutes for they function ONLY when OPEN.
Courage is mastery of fear-not absence of fear.
Forgiveness is giving up the hope of a better past.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.
Remember.... Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them as much.
Some folks won't look up until they are flat on their backs.
Some people develop eyestrain looking for trouble.
We didn't all come over on the same ship, but were all in the same boat.
Love tells me I am everything. Wisdom tells me I am nothing. And between the two my life flows.
Failure isn't in falling down; it's in failing to get back up.
A smile is a curve that can set things straight.
Serenity isn’t freedom from the storm; it is peace within the storm.
You can tell the size of the man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.
Love thy neighbor as thyself, but choose your neighborhood.
I am not responsible for my feelings; but what I do with them.
Experience is the hardest kind of teacher, it gives you the test first and; the lesson afterwards.
You never know what is enough, until you know what is more than enough.
We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.
Only an open mind can be healed.
If you still haven't found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, just enjoy the rainbow.
People do not fail, they give up trying.
Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.
Identify - Don't compare.
Every misery I miss is a new blessing.
Self-pity is your worst enemy.
It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.
Life is a hospital, in which every patient is possessed by the desire to change his bed.
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