Recovery is hard. We know that reading a few quotes won’t get you over your addiction, but sometimes hearing (or reading) the right words at the right time can help you get through a rough patch. You got this!
- “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Brontë
- “Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” – Georgia O’Keeffe
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life; it comes to us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives, and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.” – John Wayne
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
- “Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.” – Carrie Fisher
- “I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.” – Samuel L. Jackson
- “I realized that I only had two choices: I was either going to die or I was going to live, and which one did I want to do? And then I said those words, ‘I’ll get help,’ or, ‘I need help. I’ll get help.’ And my life turned around. Ridiculous for a human being to take 16 years to say, ‘I need help.’” – Sir Elton John
- ‘If it wasn’t for that rehab center, I probably wouldn’t have been here. In terms of recovery, it has been very important for me to be a part of a recovery community, to actively be around my people because they understand me. They get it.” – Macklemore
- “If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.” – Benjamin Alire Sáenz
- “Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “You can’t defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.” – Seth Adam Smith
- “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.” – Steve Maraboli
- “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” – Friedrich Nietzsch