The road to recovery is challenging and not always easy to navigate. For this reason, it’s vital to stay motivated and remind oneself of the purpose of this journey. One way to garner inspiration is to read and share inspirational quotes that can help you stay on the right track.
When a person experiences mostly positive thoughts, this can help them eschew thoughts related to depression and negativity. Reading quotes, such as the following, can foster the realization that others out there have had similar feelings and lived through many of the same struggles. And sharing these quotes can help others and elicit discussion that can further serve to keep people in recovery feeling strong, motivated, and hopeful.
Drug Addiction Quotes For Reading and Sharing
“If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.”
~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.”
~ Benjamin Alire Sáenz
“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
“I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”
~ Charlotte Brontë
“That which does not kill us makes us stronger.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“Rising from the ashes, I am born again, powerful, exultant, majestic through all the pain.”
~ Shannon Perry
“Anyone can give up; it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone would expect you to fall apart, now that is true strength.”
~ Chris Bradford
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.”
~ Mark Twain
“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
“An over-indulgence of anything, even something as pure as water, can intoxicate.”
~ Criss Jami
“No matter how dark the night may get, your light will never burn out.”
~ Jeanette LeBlanc
“In the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.”
~ Drew Barrymore
“Sometimes, you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.”
~ Carrie Fisher
“Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.”
~ Theodore Roosevelt
“If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking.”
~ Zen proverb
“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
“Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising up every time we fail.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Whether you think you can or you think you can’t, you’re right.”
~ Henry Ford
“Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.”
~ Carl Jung
“Fall six times, stand up seven.”
~ Japanese Proverb
“Addiction begins with the hope that something ‘out there’ can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.”
~ Jean Kilbourne
“At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of this pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.”
~ Frank Tallis
“The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.”
~ Debra L. Kaplan
“If you hear a voice within you say ‘you cannot paint,’ then by all means paint and that voice will be silenced.”
~ Vincent Van Gogh
“If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.”
~ Ann Landers
“First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.”
~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.”
~ Anne Fletcher
“All the suffering, stress and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.”
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.”
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Getting Help for Addiction
If you are struggling with drug addiction or alcoholism, we urge you to seek professional help as soon as possible. Harmony Treatment and Wellness is a specialized addiction treatment center that offers customized, comprehensive programs designed to treat all aspects of our clients’ health and well-being.
Our programs feature evidence-based therapies and services that are beneficial for the process of recovery, such as psychotherapy, counseling, group support, and much, much more.
If you are ready to take the next step and overcome addiction once and for all, contact us today! We are dedicated to helping those who need it most free themselves from the chains of addiction and reclaim the satisfying lives they deserve!
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