Recovery famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
-- Aberjhani -
For schizophrenia, the recovery rate with drug therapy is under 15%. With nutritional therapy, the recovery rate is 80%.
-- Abram Hoffer -
A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.
-- Adolf Hitler -
Courage is not defined by those who fought and did not fall, but by those who fought, fell and rose again.
-- Adrienne Rich -
It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.
-- Agnes Repplier -
In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice.
-- Aimee Mann -
In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there’s something stronger – something better, pushing right back.
-- Albert Camus -
The attitude of unconditional self-acceptance is probably the most important variable in their long-term recovery.
-- Albert Ellis -
What we are doing in fact is recovering and progressing and sustaining the recovery of our democracy.
-- Alberto Fujimori -
It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.
-- Alex Jones -
We didn't do anything wrong, but among the lessons learned, given the magnitude of the problems we now face in Afghanistan, a major U.S. force on the ground would convince the world we were in for the long-haul recovery of a country devastated by 21 years of warfare.
-- Alexander Haig -
But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.
-- Alexi Giannoulias -
Deficits must be cut, yes, but the rush to austerity risks undermining the fragile global recovery.
-- Alistair Darling -
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
-- Alistair Darling -
The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I've dreamed about for so long.
-- Amanda Lindhout -
What a recovery of the wisdom of the Mother brings to all of us is the knowledge of inseparable connection with the entire creation and the wise, active love that is born from that knowledge.
-- Andrew Harvey -
Hospitals are a little like the beach. The next wave comes in, and the footprints of your pain and suffering, your delivery and recovery, are obliterated ...
-- Anna Quindlen -
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town
-- Anne Lamott -
Jealousy always has been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed. I’ve had many years of recovery and therapy, years filled with intimate and devoted friendships, yet I still struggle. I know that when someone gets a big slice of pie, it doesn’t mean there’s less for me. In fact, I know that there isn’t even a pie, that there’s plenty to go around, enough food and love and air. But I don’t believe it for a second. I secretly believe there’s a pie. I will go to my grave brandishing my fork.
-- Anne Lamott -
It takes as much courage to have tried and failed as it does to have tried and succeeded.
-- Anne Morrow Lindbergh -
I drank a lot, but I wouldn't have missed it. I look back on it as sort of dreary enjoyment, because I don't have to be there anymore.
-- Anthony Hopkins -
It's even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.
-- Anton Chekhov -
Our first goal is to stop the recession and start with recovery.
-- Antonis Samaras -
We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.
-- Arne Duncan -
We are having the single worst recovery the U.S. has had since the Great Depression. I don't care how you measure it. The East Coast knows it. The West Coast knows it. North, South, old, young, everyone knows it's the worst recovery since the Great Depression.
-- Arthur Laffer -
Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.
-- Arthur Penrhyn Stanley -
Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.
-- Arthur Rimbaud -
We look to our last sickness for repentance, unmindful that it is during a recovery men repent, not during a sickness.
-- Augustus William Hare -
The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges.
-- Barack Obama -
While I was pleasantly surprised by the relatively high number of jobs created in April, the fact is that job creation during this recovery period has significantly lagged both historical experience in recovery, and the projections of the Bush Administration.
-- Barney Frank -
Once my loved one accepted the diagnosis, healing began for the entire family, but it took too long. It took years. Can't we, as a nation, begin to speed up that process? We need a national campaign to destigmatize mental illness, especially one targeted toward African Americans. The message must go on billboards and in radio and TV public service announcements. It must be preached from pulpits and discussed in community forums. It's not shameful to have a mental illness. Get treatment. Recovery is possible.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
Forgiveness is the key to the recovery of the soul.
-- Bebe Moore Campbell -
The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.
-- Ben Bernanke -
Let me tell you how at one time the famous mathematician Euclid became a physician. It was during a vacation, which I spent in Prague as I most always did, when I was attacked by an illness never before experienced, which manifested itself in chilliness and painful weariness of the whole body. In order to ease my condition I took up Euclid's Elements and read for the first time his doctrine of ratio, which I found treated there in a manner entirely new to me. The ingenuity displayed in Euclid's presentation filled me with such vivid pleasure, that forthwith I felt as well as ever.
-- Bernard Bolzano -
Nutrition is the only remedy that can bring full recovery and can be used with any treatment. Remember, food is our best medicine!
-- Bernard Jensen -
If a person can turn from predicting illness to anticipating recovery, the foundation for cure is laid.
-- Bernie Siegel -
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
-- Betty Ford -
I walked in and inherited a management group that I didn't know very well. They didn't know me, and we had a very short window to put together a credible recovery plan.
-- Bill Ford -
We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.
-- Bill W. -
In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
-- Bill W. -
In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outside of jail. A habit is hell for those you love. And in this country it's the worst kind of hell for those who love you.
-- Billie Holiday -
I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.
-- Billy Corgan -
Fiscal responsibility and government reform are going to be good themes for governing, well at any time, but particularly coming out of a recovery.
-- Bob McDonnell -
MCP, maximum controled pressure. No tomorrow, no waiting, nothing beyond the moment. We seek the perfect balance-total abandon on the drive, total control on the recovery.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn't hurt either.
-- Brad Alan Lewis -
I prayed to God for help and I put myself in a recovery house called Studio 12. It was for people in the business and you didn't have to have any money to go, which was good because I was broke.
-- Brion James -
There's bound to be a recovery in [capital spending] sometime soon. We have had basically no capital investment for about year. At some point, machinery wears out, and you've got to replace it.
-- Bruce Bartlett -
You cannot save everyone. Some people are going to destroy themselves no matter how much you try to help them.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
It's not wrong to be upset. It's not wrong to cry. It's not wrong to want attention. It's not even wrong to scream or throw a fit. What is wrong is to keep it all inside. What is wrong is to blame and punish yourself for simply being human. What is wrong is to never be heard and to be alone in your pain. Share it. Let it out.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
It will feel impossible; like you are dying inside this is your soul crying out for life. It may take everything you have; every ounce of will and strength. You will lose a part of yourself trying to save something essential and innocent. And when you have given everything, you will recover and you will be set free, and you will discover there was even more in you than you ever knew.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
You cannot save people from themselves. All you can do is stand firmly in your hopes for them, with compassion.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
When the storm rips you to pieces, you get to decide how to put yourself back together again.
-- Bryant H. McGill -
Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there.
-- Bucky Sinister -
My Sunday mornings are spent in a recovery meeting in Pacific Palisades.
-- Buzz Aldrin -
The outpouring of support from health professionals who want to volunteer for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts has been tremendous,
-- Calvin Johnson -
It's time for a recovery and reassessment of North American thinkers. Marshall McLuhan, Leslie Fiedler and Norman O. Brown are the linked triad I would substitute for Jacques Lacan, Jacques Derrida and Michel Foucault, whose work belongs to ravaged postwar Europe and whose ideas transfer poorly into the Anglo-American tradition.
-- Camille Paglia -
Why should we not form a secret society with but one object, the furtherance of the British Empire and the bringing of the whole world under British rule, for the recovery of the United States, for making the Anglo Saxon race but one Empire? What a dream, but yet it is probable; it is possible.
-- Cecil Rhodes -
The jobless recovery in Maine is much more of a reality than we thought it was.
-- Charles J. Colgan -
By choosing recovery and risking to be real, we set the healthy boundaries that say, "I am in charge of my recovery and my life, and no one else on this Earth is.
-- Charles L. Whitfield -
Most pointedly, nature-based people manifest the very qualities that contemporary psychotherapy, the recovery movement, and spiritual practices continually aim for: a visible sense of inner peace, unselfconscious humility, an urge to communal cooperation, and heartfelt appreciation for the world around them.
-- Chellis Glendinning -
While looking at a website for liposuction, I learned that it was a six-to eight-week recovery period, the clincher being that, during that time, I would under no circumstances be able to use street drugs. Obviously I had to think of a more realistic approach.
-- Chelsea Handler -
It's cool to be a part of recovery. This is just who I am, this is what I write about, what I do, and most of my work has been a reflection of what I've been going through in one way or another.
-- Chester Bennington -
While yes we can both agree the sudden recovery of this footage smells not a little, and that we appear to be bits of tinfoil-on-string to some malevolent government kitten, yes yes yes but, Borlu, however they've come by this evidence, this is the correct decision.
-- China Mieville -
The world is filled with human toxins -- not the darkness that we all occasionally crave, but actually people who are so unwilling to bask in the angelic light that is offered us all that they grow poisonous -- and you can pray for their eventual recovery and healing. And sometimes those prayers will be answered. But sometimes these individuals have been vaccinated against goodness and against angels and they are so unwilling to give an inch to their God that often they never (and I use this expression absolutely literally) see the light.
-- Chris Bohjalian -
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
-- Christiaan Barnard -
You know, I think the, the crucial thing, you know, we have put in place what is, is just simply the biggest, boldest recovery package in history, right; the stimulus package, biggest ever; the financial rescue, absolutely comprehensive; a housing plan - that is incredible medicine for the economy. And we fully expect it to work.
-- Christina Romer -
The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.
-- Christine Caine -
I refuse to allow a disability to determine how I live my life. I don't mean to be reckless, but setting a goal that seems a bit daunting actually is very helpful toward recovery.
-- Christopher -
Defense doesn't break down on the help, it breaks down on the recovery.
-- Chuck Daly -
Stories are there to be told, and each story changes with the telling. Time changes them. Logic changes them. Grammar changes them. History changes them. Each story is shifted side-ways by each day that unfolds. Nothing ends. The only thing that matters, as Faulkner once put it, is the human heart in conflict with itself. At the heart of all this is the possibility, or desire, to create a piece of art that talks to the human instinct for recovery and joy.
-- Colum McCann -
An injury is not just a process of recovery it's a process of discovery.
-- Conor McGregor -
Patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.
-- Cornel West -
I grew up in traditional black patriarchal culture and there is no doubt that I’m going to take a great many unconscious, but present, patriarchal complicities to the grave because it so deeply ensconced in how I look at the world. Therefore, very much like alcoholism, drug addiction, or racism patriarchy is a disease and we are in perennial recovery and relapse. So you have to get up every morning and struggle against it.
-- Cornel West -
Recovery from illness often seems like beginning life all over again.
-- Cornelia Meigs -
I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.
-- Craig Ferguson -
Whether I or anyone else accepted the concept of alcoholism as a disease didn't matter; what mattered was that when treated as a disease, those who suffered from it were most likely to recover.
-- Craig Ferguson -
This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.
-- Dan Quayle -
I want people with epilepsy to know that there are ways in which they can play a role in their own recovery. It's all in how they approach what is happening and how they can use that as a catalyst for their own growth. If there's one thing that I've learned, it's that people are willing to embrace you if you share your story.
-- Danny Glover -
Wisdom is the recovery of innocence at the far end of experience.
-- David Bentley Hart -
The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.
-- David Brainerd -
Powerful new drug-free treatments have been developed for depression and for every conceivable type of anxiety, such as chronic worrying, shyness, public speaking anxiety, test anxiety, phobias, and panic attacks. The goal of the treatment is not just partial improvement but full recovery.
-- David D. Burns -
The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!
-- David H. Cooke -
The hopeful part about that is when you do have that help, you will feel better. It still doesn't make this easy. Nothing makes this easy, but you can make better decisions.
-- David Sheff -
Democrats are going to proudly run on the fact that we turned the economy around. It was our policies under President Obama's leadership through the Recovery Act, through investing in the automobile industry.
-- Debbie Wasserman Schultz -
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.
-- Demi Lovato -
One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery
-- Demi Lovato -
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.
-- Dennis Cardoza -
After a disaster such as Hurricane Katrina, the federal government has a profound obligation to help those in need, .. Right now, the victims of Hurricane Katrina need our help. Entire communities have been destroyed. Families have been torn apart. Many are still missing. Tens of thousands remain homeless. As the recovery proceeds, we in the Senate pledge to do everything in our power to help rebuild the shattered lives across the Gulf Coast.
-- Dianne Feinstein -
There's a whole generation of young people who are faced with the so-called 'jobless recovery.' Necessity is the mother of invention. They are out there, all around the world, creating new companies.
-- Don Tapscott -
I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data.
-- Dorothy E. Denning -
I favor strategies that encourage industry to include some sort of key recovery capability in their systems which would also address user requirements for access.
-- Dorothy E. Denning -
It was going to be really tough to juggle the two as far as rehab and strength training, getting the shoulder back to where it needed to be and also worrying about the weight cut. We thought as a team that the best option for me right now with the recovery was to stay at middleweight, for this fight at least. We'll see what happens after this.
-- Dylan Andrews -
I think of the company advertising "Thought Processors" or the college pretending that learning BASIC suffices or at least helps, whereas the teaching of BASIC should be rated as a criminal offence: it mutilates the mind beyond recovery.
-- Edsger Dijkstra -
I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame. But my pride was soon humbled, and a sober melancholy was spread over my mind, by the idea that I had taken an everlasting leave of an old and agreeable companion, and that whatsoever might be the future date of my History, the life of the historian must be short and precarious.
-- Edward Gibbon -
The road to energy independence, economic recovery, and greenhouse gas reductions runs through the building sector.
-- Edward Mazria -
Participation in the dance was entirely voluntary, a mental vow to worship the Mystery in this manner being expressed by a man ardently desiring the recovery of a sick relative; or surrounded by an enemy with escape apparently impossible; or, it might be, dying of hunger … since some inscrutable power had swept all game from forest and prairie. Others joined in the ceremony in the hope and firm belief that the Mystery …would grant them successes against the enemy and consequent eminence at home.
-- Edward S. Curtis
