“The healthy person finds happiness in helping others.”
“The Only Person You Are Destined To Become Is The Person You Decide To Be.”
“Don't Let the Past Steal Your Present.”
“The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.”
“There is no shame in beginning again, for you get a chance to build bigger and better than before.”
“Experience is Not what happens to you. It is what you do with what happens to you.”
“Though No one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Bard.
“My recovery must come first so that everything I love in life doesn’t have to come last.”
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world…as in being able to remake ourselves.” Mahatma Gandhi
“The best way out is always through” Robert Frost
“The opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but human connection” Johann Hari
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates
“Feel the feeling, but do not become the emotion. Witness it. Allow it. Release it.
“KARMA: Think good thoughts, say nice things. Do good for others, everything comes back.”
“Problems are like washing machines. They twist us, spin us and knock us around but in the end we come out cleaner, brighter and better than before.”
“It took a long time to get into the forest….It will take a long time to get back out.”
“You have survived every single thing that you thought you wouldn’t.”
“Without rain nothing grows. Learn to embrace the storms of your life.”
“Until you change your thinking, you will always recycle your experiences.”
“Self care is distancing yourself from people who are always negative.”
“Time doesn’t really heal anything. It just teaches us how to live and learn from the pain.”
“Love life. Engage in it. Give it all you’ve got. Love it with a possession bc life truly does give back, many times over, what you put into it.” Maya Angelou
“Members of a cohesive group feel warmth and comfort in the group and a sense of belongingness; they value the group and feel in turn that they are valued, accepted, and supported by other members.”
― Irvin D. Yalom, The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy
“Tough love and brutal truth from strangers are far more valuable than Band-Aids and half-truths from invested friends, who don’t want to see you suffer any more than you have.”― Shannon L. Alder
