Recovery Quotes - Addiction Quotes

Recovery Quotes - Addiction Quotes - Sobriety Quotes

Let these quotes help support you to maintain your sobriety and to live a great life in your recovery from addiction.

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

You are responsible for your life.
You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction.
Life is really about moving on.
- Oprah Winfrey

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event,
then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.
- William James

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling,
but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
- Joseph Joubert

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...
It's about learning how to dance in the rain.
- Vivian Greene

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

When one door of happiness closes, another opens,
but often we look so long at the closed door
that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
- Helen Keller

Laugh when you can,
apologize when you should,
and let go of what you can't change.
Life's too short to be anything... but happy.
- Anonymous

Wherever there is a human being,
there is an opportunity for a kindness.
- Seneca

Don't be afraid to take a big step.
You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
- David Lloyd George

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud
was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. - Anaïs Nin

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot

We cannot direct the wind,
but we can adjust the sails.
- Bertha Calloway (attributed)

Yesterday is ashes.
Tomorrow is green wood.
Only today does the fire burn brightly.
- Eskimo Saying

We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean.
But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed.
- Mother Theresa

There are only two ways to live your life.
One is as though nothing is a miracle.
The other is as though everything is a miracle.
- Albert Einstein

Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.
- Albert Schweitzer

Only the weak are cruel.
Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Leo Buscaglia

The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
- Oscar Wilde

Today... maybe I can take one step on that profoundly complex path to peace.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

I slept and dreamt that life was joy.
I awoke and saw that life was service.
I acted and behold, service was joy.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Yesterday is history.
Tomorrow is a mystery.
Today is a gift.
That is why it is called Present.
- Anonymous

Science may have found a cure for most evils;
but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all --
the apathy of human beings.
- Helen Keller

Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console;
to be understood as to understand;
to be loved as to love.
- St. Francis of Assisi,

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

Lose yourself in generous service
and every day can be a most unusual day,
a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day.
- William Arthur Ward

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands,
one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

The very nature of the world is constant change.
You set a goal and create a plan to achieve it;
then the assumptions on which you based your plan change - they always do.
The challenge is to retain your goals while adapting your tactics.
Relax and stay flexible in order to reach your goals and maintain your happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.
- Anne Frank

People will forget what you said,
people will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.
- Maya Angelou

Call a plant beautiful, and it becomes a flower.
Call it ugly, and it becomes a weed.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness,
to pull another hand into the light.
- Norman B. Rice

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Most of the shadows of life are caused by standing in our own sunshine.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

As far as we can discern,
the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.
A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being
that places harmony in one's life.
- Peace Pilgrim

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic.
It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost,
but the urge to serve others at whatever cost.
- Arthur Ashe

Acceptance of others, their belief, their religion,
their political ideology, their looks,
their culture, and their behaviors
brings an inner peace and tranquility
instead of anger and resentment.
- Stanzin Dawa

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

When you become centered, suddenly there is great freedom
because you know you are not the mind and you are not the body.
- Osho

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was:
"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?"
But... the good Samaritan reversed the question:
"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
-Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the center of your being you have the answer;
you know who you are and you know what you want.
- Lao Tzu

Life is unlimited -
it expands with the generosity, compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Find a place inside where there's joy,
and the joy will burn out the pain.
- Joseph Campbell

Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded.
It's a relationship between equals.
Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others.
Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.
- Pema Chodron

Live with intention.
Walk to the edge.
Listen hard.
Practice wellness.
Play with abandon.
Laugh.
Choose with no regret.
Appreciate your friends.
Continue to learn.
Do what you love.
Live as if this is all there is.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Those who believe they can do something
and those who believe they can't
are both right.
- Henry Ford

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
- William James

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that.
Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion
are the things which renew humanity.
- The Buddha

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word,
a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring,
all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

Hard times don't create heroes.
It is during the hard times when the "hero" within us is revealed.
- Bob Riley

The only reason we don't open our hearts and minds to other people
is that they trigger confusion in us that we don't feel brave enough or sane enough to deal with.
To the degree that we look clearly and compassionately at ourselves,
we feel confident and fearless about looking into someone else's eyes.
- Pema Chodron

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous?
Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God.
Your playing small does not serve the world.
There is nothing enlightened about shrinking
so that other people won't feel insecure around you.
We are all meant to shine, as children do.
We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us.
It is not just in some of us; it is in everyone.
And as we let our own light shine,
we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same.
As we are liberated from our own fear,
our presence automatically liberates others.
- Marianne Williamson

Whatever you do, do with kindness.
Whatever you say, say with kindness.
Wherever you go, radiate kindness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Compassion and generosity are the true measures of human worth.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All materials & writings are copyright ©. You may read about our disclaimer, our privacy policy,
our copyright policy, terms of use, participation in affiliate programs, and the list of all our websites.