Quotes on Addiction Recovery

Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.

The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... 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.

Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.

Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

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.

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.

The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.

I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.