Explore Quotes on Recovery

The CRAFT approach, developed by Bob Meyers at U of New Mexico, is one set of important tools that DO work, and it feels great to see families using these strategies and getting results, feeling hopeful again, feeling empowered, getting support, learning to trust themselves again, getting their lives and the lives of their children back.

It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.

It's been said that alcoholics are egomaniacs with low self -esteem. It's the prefect description. Being larger than life and yet your pride is crushed with self- loathing.

I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

Recovery begins with embracing our pain and taking the risk to share it with others. We do this by joining a group and talking about our pain.

Every day is a fresh beginning. Every morn is the world made anew.

If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.

Addiction is a relationship, a pathological relationship in which... obsession replaces people.

There is no sinner in the world, however much at enmity with God, who cannot recover God's grace by recourse to Mary, and by asking her assistance.

If thou least fallen into sin through violent temptations, seek speedily for repentance for it, recovery out of it, and reformation from it.

Anytime I was challenged and told I couldn't do something, I would absolutely have to prove the opposite. And I did.

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.

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

If we are ready to tear down the walls that confine us, break the cage that imprisons us, we will discover what our wings are for.

No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

If you are aware of your weaknesses and are constantly learning, your potential is virtually limitless.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Persons who have no desire to live have a very slight chance of recovery. We can continue to extend to them our love, sympathy, and prayers; but ultimately we must respect a person's decision to die.

What people think of you is none of your business.

Our lives become the sum of all whom we have loved. It is important not to waste anyone. One task of living out the last half of life is excavating and recovering all of those whom we loved in the first half. Thus, the recovery of lost loves becomes an important way in which the past affects the present.

Variety of form and brilliancy of colour in the objects presented to patients are actual means of recovery.