Addiction Recovery Quotes

Addiction Recovery Quote of the day

Not why the addiction, but why the pain.

You become what you behold.

We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

I've triumphed over addiction.

You are in recovery if you say you are.

My recovery is the single greatest accomplishment of my life. Without that, the rest of my life would have fallen apart.

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

Recovery is a bit like an addiction; you take it day by day. If you set yourself too many goalposts, you'll have problems.

We can and we must do better as prolonged recovery is now an achievable result of comprehensive addiction treatment.

The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

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.

Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.

You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.

I cannot trust my other side, my drunken side, to act in my best interests anymore.

Cruel Harvest by Fran Elizabeth Grubb is a memoir that will touch your heart.

I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.

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.

I lived to be forgotten because I'd forgotten how to live

This woman’s size protected herfrom the hurts of the worldbut it also imprisoned her soul. As the merry-go-round revolved, she ate another French fry, as a silent scream frozen on her face.

Getting rid of the drugs doesn’t get rid of all the other ways you learned to deal with the world. It’s not that easy.

Sometimes it's hard to see the rainbow when there's been endless days of rain.

No one consciously chooses addiction to a substance or behavior over his partner. There are always reasons – powerful ones – why a person retreats into addiction.

Compassion is the most powerful tool you can have when it comes to healing addictions of any kind. Put simply, what your partner needs most from you is compassion.

We, as a society, have arbitrarily differentiated between acceptable and unacceptable drug addictions.

Alcoholism is above all a disease of denial.

Being loud after drinking wine doesn't help. Being silent after drinking wine doesn't help. Nothing really ever gets solved either way.

It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.