Best Recovery Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“Hope in the beginning feels like such a violation of the loss, and yet without it we couldn't survive.”

“Amy [Winehouse] increasingly became defined by her addiction. Our media though is more interested in tragedy than talent, so the ink began to defect from praising her gift to chronicling her downfall. The destructive personal relationships, the blood soaked ballet slippers, the aborted shows, that YouTube madness with the baby mice. In the public perception this ephemeral tittle-tattle replaced her timeless talent. This and her manner in our occasional meetings brought home to me the severity of her condition. Addiction is a serious disease; it will end with jail, mental institutions, or death.”

“It hurts to face a closed door, but if you find ways to handle that, you will recover as if it were nothing at all.”

“Life contracts before it expands, and pulls back before it leaps forward. This balancing act is not something we should resist, but rather, embrace.”

“Recovery is hard. Regret is harder.”

“Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…”

“Recovery is full of ups and downs.”

“I am no longer knocking at death’s door but the path is still familiar.”

“I am a work in progress.”

“Healing comes in waves”

“You become a house where the wind blows straight through, because no one bothers the crack in the window or lock on the door, and you’re the house where people come and go as they please, because you’re simply too unimpressed to care. You let people in who you really shouldn’t let in, and you let them walk around for a while, use your bed and use your books, and await the day when they simply get bored and leave. You’re still not bothered, though you knew they shouldn’t have been let in in the first place, but still you just sit there, apathetic like a beggar in the desert.”

“Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. 
 You still feel warmth.
Now sit down and get to work. Keep your mind sharp, head on, eyes on the page and if small thoughts of worries fight their ways into your consciousness: threw them off like fires in the night and keep your eyes on the track. Nothing but the task in front of you.”

“No matter how smart we may think we are, no matter how committed we are to our truth, we can lose our way.”

“You cannot rush a tree into bloom. And you cannot force a soul to heal. Time is not a threat—it’s a companion.”

“Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.”

“The ORDINARY RESPONSE TO ATROCITIES is to banish them from consciousness. Certain violations of the social compact are too terrible to utter aloud: this is the meaning of the word unspeakable.”

“But no matter how much evil I see, I think it’s important for everyone to understand that there is much more light than darkness.”

“Listen to God with a broken heart. He is not only the doctor who mends it, but also the father who wipes away the tears.”

“Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.”

“You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.”

“A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare”