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Recovery Image: Stop!















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Stop putting yourself down, comparing yourself to others, holding on to past mistakes, counting failures instead of blessings, hating your body, punishing yourself, expecting perfection, waiting, mourning 'what ifs' and 'could haves,' allowing what was to decide what could be. Let go. Move Forward. Stay Positive. Believe.
MrsM


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Recovery: Appreciating Beauty

Choose to see the world through eyes that appreciate the unique beauty that is a part of every living thing...including yourself. 
MrsM

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Each Day's Journey























Each day's journey begins at a crossroad and I must choose which way I will travel.
MrsM



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Recovery Quote Of The Week: October 8, 2012























Serenity is not freedom from the storm, but peace amid the storm.
Unknown


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: September 12, 2012


We need to find the courage to say NO to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity. "
Barbara De Angelis




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Recovery Quote Of The Week: August 24 2012


In life one has a choice to take one of two paths: to wait for some special day - or to celebrate each special day.
Rasheed Ogunlaru

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Live The Life You Deserve
























When you stop letting yourself be defined by outside forces; when you refuse to compare yourself to others in order to determine your worth, when you no longer allow your past to choose the course of your future, when you realize that who you are is more important than how you look... Then you will begin to live the life you truly deserve.
MrsM

Recovery Quote of the Week: July 31, 2012























Life's like a piano. The white keys represent happiness, and the black keys show sadness. But as you go through your life’s journey, remember that the black keys make music too.
Anonymous


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Recovery Quote of the Week: July 11, 2012























Every passing minute is another chance to turn it all around.
Cameron Crowe



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Recovery Quote of the Week: June 30, 2012














You must dive the depths in order to experience the beauty of what exists below the surface.
Mrs.M

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Recovery Image: Only By Letting Go























Only by letting go can we learn to navigate the currents of our dreams.
MrsM


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Recovery Inspiration: Start This Day With A Song.



















Start this day with a song. Cast your burdens to the wind. Dance in the new day's sun. Rejoice, for this day is a new beginning. It asks only that it be embraced and lived joyfully.
MrsM




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Recovery Inspiration: How Different Would Your Life Be If...

How different would your life be if the fear, shame, guilt, self-doubt, and burdens of your past no longer existed? If you accepted yourself, loved yourself, and respected yourself despite your weight, appearance, or history? These things do not define you. Let them go and start creating the life you desire!
MrsM


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: June 14, 2012























Today, I will take time to drink in the fresh spring air and sit with my thoughts for a while. I will not hurry, worry, or fear. I will live in this one glorious moment, fully. I will take from it all that it has to offer me. I will allow it to fill my soul.
MrsM



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The Journey: Inspirational Recovery Quotes























The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.
Barbara DeAngelis

One of the most important things that I have learned in my 57 years is that life is all about choices. On every journey you take, you face choices. At every fork in the road, you make a choice. And it is those decisions that shape our lives.
Mike DeWine

It's pretty hard to get what you want when you're busy doing and being what you don't want.
Cheryl Janecky

Life is what you make of it. Always has been, always will be.
Grandma Moses

Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.
George Whitefield

Sooner or later we must realize there is no station, no one place to arrive at once and for all. The true joy of life is the trip.
Robert J. Hastings

I believe that life is a journey, often difficult and sometimes incredibly cruel, but we are well equipped for it if only we tap into our talents and gifts and allow them to blossom.
Les Brown

Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.
Kenichi Ohmae

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.
Lawrence Durrell

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.
Don Williams

To get through the hardest journey we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
Chinese Proverb

We are not human beings on a spiritual journey. We are spiritual beings on a human journey.
Stephen Covey

Let your mind start a journey thru a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be…Close your eyes, let your spirit start to soar, and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before.
Erich Fromm

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

No one else can speak the words on your lips. Drench yourself in words unspoken. Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten.
Natasha Bedingfield

There are many paths but only one journey.
Naomi Judd

Life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.
Oliver Goldsmith

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Too often we are so preoccupied with the destination, we forget the journey.
Unknown

Heroes take journeys, confront dragons, and discover the treasure of their true selves.
Carol Pearson

Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.
Oprah Winfrey

The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character.
Ella Maillart

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

It may be when we no longer know what to do, we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go, we have begun our real journey.
Wendell Berry

Sometimes it is better to begin the journey, to get under way, then it is to sit back and wait until such time that you're convinced that all conditions are perfect and that there'll be no surprises along the route.
John Engler

The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.
Dag Hammarskjold

Life's a journey, not a destination.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa

For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin-real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
Alfred D’Souza 

Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.
Meister Eckhart

Realize that from the start, every activity that comprises the journey has value and the ability to teach you something.
Bill Toomey

The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction, not a destination.
Carl Rogers

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.
Bo Bennett

I think essentially the meaning of life is probably the journey and not really any one thing or an outcome or a result.
Charisma Carpenter

It's a life's journey of finding ourselves, finding our power, and living for yourself, not for everyone else.
Mariska Hargitay

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.
Enoch Powell

The journey is my home.
Muriel Rukeyser

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.
Charles Dudley Warner

It has never been, and never will be easy work! But the road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.
Marion Zimmer Bradley

Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what you need to furnish it - memory, friends you can trust, love of learning, and other such things. That way it will go with you wherever you journey.
Tad Williams

Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive, along with which comes the inner voice which says, ‘This is the real me,’ and when you have found that attitude, follow it.
William James

Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.
Greg Anderson

Whatever you do, you need courage. Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising that tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs. Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

So it's been kind of a long road, but it was a good journey altogether.
Sidney Poitier

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
Ella Maillart

A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
Jean de la Fontaine

The process of letting go is like taking a journey to the center of your being.
Darren L. Johnson

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

Thank God for the journey.
James Brown

It's not an easy journey, to get to a place where you forgive people. But it is such a powerful place, because it frees you.
Tyler Perry

Come dress yourself in love, let the journey begin.
Francesca da Rimini

Does this path have a heart? If it does, the path is good; if it doesn’t, it is of no use.
Carlos Castaneda

For me, exploration is about that journey to the interior, into your own heart. I'm always wondering, how will I act at my moment of truth? Will I rise up and do what's right, even if every fiber of my being is telling me otherwise?
Ann Bancroft

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.
Leif Garrett

It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.
Ursula K. Le Guin

We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out.
Orison Swett Marden

Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome.
Arthur Ashe

At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
Yukio Mishima

The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal, you can get there if you’re willing to work.
Oprah Winfrey

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
Lao Tzu

It's easy to say young people should believe in themselves, but the number one thing is recognizing that it's a journey, that you have to build confidence in yourself.
Andrew Shue

But even if I'm left high and dry at the end of this wild journey, just taking it is a great feeling.
Olivia Wilde

Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home.
Matsuo Basho

If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.
Dan Rather

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.
Earl Nightingale

I like someone who embraces life; who wants to be on a long journey but has no particular plan or destination in mind… an adventurous man, open to the concept of living life in the moment.
Jill Hennessy

It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help each other when we stumble or tire, to weep and press on.
Mary Richards

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there.
Japanese Proverb

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend.
Grantland Rice

It's a journey; it's a fight everyday.
Peter Hobson

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.
Marianne Williamson

Life to me is a journey - you never know what may be your next destination.
David Russell

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.
Adrienne Rich

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Robert Frost

I think illness is a family journey, no matter what the outcome. Everybody has to be allowed to process it and mourn and deal with it in their own way.
Marcia Wallace

In that I found being able to talk to my family about my feelings, praying for strength and realizing that our lives have a deep purpose and the journey of our lives is to find out what that is and express it, was the only way I could have gotten through it.
Marlo Thomas

It requires greater courage to preserve inner freedom, to move on in one's inward journey into new realms, than to stand defiantly for outer freedom.
Rollo May

Success is not a place at which one arrives but rather the spirit with which one undertakes and continues the journey.
Alex Noble

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Each one of us has a fire in our heart for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton

What I know for sure is that your life is a multipart series of all your experiences- and each experience is created by your thoughts, intentions, and actions to teach you what you need to know. Your life is a journey of learning to love yourself first and then extending that love to others in every encounter.
Oprah Winfrey



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Self-Confidence: Inspirational Recovery Quotes


















Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.
Norman Vincent Peale

When you develop yourself to the point where your belief in yourself is so strong that you know you can accomplish anything you put your mind to, your future will be unlimited.
Brian Tracy

Your greatness is revealed not by the lights that shine upon you, but by the light that shines within you.
Ray Davis

With realization of one’s own potential and self-confidence in one’s ability, one can build a better world.
Dalai Lama

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.
Samuel Johnson

Confidence is like a dragon where, for every head cut off, two more heads grow back.
Criss Jami

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.
Eleanor Roosevelt

As is our confidence, so is our capacity.
Richard Bach

No man has the right to dictate what other men should perceive, create or produce, but all should be encouraged to reveal themselves, their perceptions and emotions, and to build confidence in the creative spirit.
Ansel Adams

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience by which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Confidence is going after Moby Dick in a
rowboat and taking the tartar sauce with you.
Zig Ziglar

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are.
Malcolm S. Forbes

I cheated on my fears, broke up with my doubts, got engaged to my faith, and now I’m marrying my dreams.
Unknown

Don't wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.
Mark Victor Hansen

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

The tragedy is that so many people look for self-confidence and respect everywhere except within them, so they fail in their search.
Dr. Nathaniel Branden

Confidence... thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.
Joe Paterno

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.
Marianne Williamson

Who has confidence in himself will gain the confidence of others.
Leib Lazarow

Self-confidence gives you the freedom to make mistakes and cope with failure without feeling that your world has come to an end or that you are a worthless person.
Unkown

Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.
Unknown

If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life. With confidence, you have won even before you have started.
Marcus Garvey

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but also the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
Norman Vincent Peale

There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.
Samuel Johnson

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.
Bruce Barto

Believe in yourself and there will come a day when others will have no choice but to believe with you.
Cynthia Kersey

Love me or hate me. I’m still gonna shine!
Unknown

Your chances of success in any undertaking can always be measured by your belief in yourself.
Robert Collier

Whether you think you can or think you can’t – you are right.
Henry Ford

My theory was that if I behaved like a confident, cheerful person, eventually I would buy it myself, and become that. I always had traces of strength somewhere inside me, it wasn't fake, it was just a way of summoning my courage to the fore and not letting any creeping self-doubt hinder my adventures. This method worked then, and it works now. I tell myself that I am the sort of person who can open a one-woman play in the West End, so I do. I am the sort of person who has several companies, so I do. I am the sort of person WHO WRITES A BOOK! So I do. It's the process of having faith in the self you don't quite know you are yet, if you see what I mean. Believing that you will find the strength, the means somehow, and trusting in that, although your legs are like jelly. You can still walk on them and you will find the bones as you walk. Yes, that's it. The further I walk, the stronger I become.
Dawn French

If You believe in yourself you can reach everything you want.
Kees Broos

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre

Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.
Golda Meir

The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.
Thomas Carlyle

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Lao Tzu

Experience tells you what to do; confidence allows you to do it.
Stan Smith

The secret of making dreams come true can be summarized in four C’s. They are Curiosity, Confidence, Courage, and Constancy; and the greatest of these is Confidence.
Walt Disney

Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
Marcus Aurelius

The only power that exists is inside ourselves....
Anne Rice

What is it about wearing a tuxedo or that little black dress, that makes us feel confident, beautiful, splendid, even invincible? We put on formal wear and suddenly we become extraordinary.On the days when you feel low and invisible, why not try this on for size: imagine you are wearing a fantastic tailored tuxedo or a stunning formal gown. And then proceed with your day.”
Vera Nazarian

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.
Marie Curie

Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
Vince Lombardi

Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu

I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time.
Anna Freud

With confidence, you can reach truly amazing heights; without confidence, even the simplest accomplishments are beyond your grasp.
Jim Loehr

One's belief in one's ability to determine his own course; as long as one has that, he's got the universe in his pocket.
L. Ron Hubbard

Confidence, like art never comes from having all the answers; it comes from being open to all the questions.
Earl Grey Stevenson

Always Remember to take your Vitamins: Take your Vitamin A for ACTION, Vitamin B for Belief, Vitamin C for Confidence ,Vitamin D for Discipline, Vitamin E for Enthusiasm!!
Pablo

If you think about disaster, you will get it. Brood about death and you hasten your demise. Think positively and masterfully, with confidence and faith, and life becomes more secure, more fraught with action, richer in achievement and experience.
Swami Vivekananda

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.
Dale Carnegie

Confidence is preparation. Everything else is beyond your control.
Richard Kline

Knock the 't' off the 'can't.
Samuel Johnson

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.
E. E. Cummings

You have to believe in yourself.
Sun Tzu

No name-calling truly bites deep unless, in some dark part of us, we believe it. If we are confident enough then it is just noise.
Laurell K. Hamilton

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be
done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

I do not care so much what I am to others as I care what I am to myself.
Michel de Montaigne

If you are prepared, then you are able to feel confident.
Robert J. Ringer

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.
William Jennings Bryan

There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self-respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.
Orison Swett Marden

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self- confidence is preparation.
Arthur Ashe

Confidence is courage at ease.
Daniel Maher

Nobody holds a good opinion of a man who has a low opinion of himself.
Anthony Trollope

They may try to stop you by their words and deeds, but like air you will rise above it all. You are unstoppable
Bernard Kelvin Clive

There is a difference between conceit and confidence. Conceit is bragging about yourself. Confidence means you believe you can get the job done.
Johnny Unitas

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
Peter T. Mcintyre

You have to have confidence in your ability, and then be tough enough to follow through.
Rosalynn Carter

If you think you are beaten, you are;
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you'd like to win, but think you can't
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you've lost,
For out in the world we find
Success being with a fellow's will;
It's all in the state of mind.

If you think you're outclassed, you are:
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win a prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man,
But soon or late the man who wins
Is the one who thinks he can.
Walter D. Wintle

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Possibilities: Inspirational Recovery Quotes

Nothing is impossible, the word itself says 'I'm possible'!
Audry Hepburn

Think about your future possibilities and the fact that your potential is virtually unlimited. You can do what you want to do and go where you want to go. You can be the person you want to be. You can set large and small goals and make plans and move step-by-step, progressively toward their realization. There are no obstacles to what you can accomplish except the obstacles that you create in your mind.
Brian Tracy

I dwell in possibility…
Emily Dickinson

Whether you believe you can or not, you're right.
Henry Ford

Faith makes things possible, not easy.
Unknown

Our aspirations are our possibilities.
Samuel Johnson

You and I are essentially infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices.
Deepak Chopra

What is now proved was once only imagined.
William Blake

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle

The future is simply infinite possibility waiting to happen. What it waits on is human imagination to crystallize its possibility.
Leland Kaiser

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
St. Francis of Assisi

There is no planet, sun, or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
Gloria Anzaldua

The Wright brother flew right through the smoke screen of impossibility.
Charles F. Kettering

In our efforts to be human, God does not leave us to fend for ourselves… In community - communion - we are reminded that everything is possible.
Dolores R. Leckey

Each day means a new twenty-four hours. Each day means everything's possible again.
Marie Lu

Believing in fate produces fate. Believing in freedom will create infinite possibilities.
Ayn Rand

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Lewis Carroll

In this moment, there is plenty of time. In this moment, you are precisely as you should be. In this moment, there is infinite possibility.
Victoria Moran

Impossible situations can become possible miracles.
Robert H. Schuller

When everything is lost, anything is possible.
Robert Inman

Alleged ‘impossibilities’ are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.
Charles R. Swindoll

It’s kind of fun to do the impossible!
Walt Disney

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.
Max Lerner

Every man is an impossibility until he is born.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Begin to free yourself at once by doing all that is possible with the means you have, and as you proceed in this spirit the way will open for you to do more.
Robert Collier

The difficult we do immediately; the impossible takes a little longer.
Air Force motto

Nothing is impossible to a willing heart.
John Keywood

If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!
Soren Kierkegaard

It's the possibility that keeps me going, not the guarantee.
Nicholas Sparks/The Notebook

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.
Friedrich Nietzsche

If everyone woke up tomorrow morning and said, "It's possible; whatever it is, it's possible," and spent a whole day having an "it's possible" day, then we would be going down the kind of road I'm interested in--because I do believe it is possible.
John Bird

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.
Marian Wright Edelman

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem

Your range of available choices -- right now -- is limitless.
Frederick Frieseke

I realized that if what we call human nature can be changed, then, absolutely anything is possible. And from that moment, my life changed.
Shirley Maclaine

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
Thomas Merton

All things are possible until they are proved impossible. Even the impossible may only be so, as of now.
Pearl S. Buck

The impossible is often the untried..
Jim Goodwin

I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Pablo Picasso

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities.
Robert H. Schuller

Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities - always see them, for they're always there.
Norman Vincent Peale

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.
Jamie Paolinetti

It is our duty as men and women to proceed as though the limits of our abilities do not exist.
Pierre Teilhard De Chardin

If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.
Unknown

Man would not have attained the possible unless time and again he had reached out of the impossible.
Max Weber

My mother gave me a bumblebee pin when I started work. She said: "Aerodynamically, bees shouldn't be able to fly. But they do. Remember that."
Jill E. Barad

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.
Dale Carnegie

Rebellion against your handicaps gets you nowhere. Self-pity gets you nowhere. One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world--making the most of one's best.
Harry Emerson Fosdick

A seed hidden in the heart of an apple is an orchard invisible.
Kahlil Gibran

Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett

Most people are not really free; they are confined by the niche in the world that they carve out for themselves. They limit themselves to fewer possibilities by the narrowness of their vision.
V.S. Naipaul

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
Eleanor Roosevelt 

It is very dangerous to go into eternity with possibilities which one has oneself prevented from becoming realities. A possibility is a hint from God. One must follow it.
Soren Kierkegaard

The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

Stop thinking in terms of limitations and start thinking in terms of possibilities.
Terry Josephson

The purpose of life for man is growth, just as the purpose of life for trees and plants is growth. Trees and plants grow automatically and along fixed lines; man can grow as he will. Trees and plants can only develop certain possibilities and characteristics; man can develop any power which is or has been shown by any person anywhere. Nothing that is possible in spirit is impossible in flesh and blood. Nothing that man can think is impossible. Nothing that man can imagine is impossible of realization.
Wallace D. Wattles

I'm in my prime. There's no goal too far, no mountain too high.
Wilma Rudolph

Every one's got it in him, if he'll only make up his mind and stick at it. None of us is born with a stop-valve on his powers or with a set limit to his capacities, There's no limit possible to the expansion of each one of us.
Charles Schwab

What great things would you attempt if you knew you could not fail.
Robert H Schuller

You never know what you can do until you try.
Unknown

No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.
James T. Mccay


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Inspirational Recovery Quotes: Joy



Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.  
Mother Teresa 

Joy does not simply happen to us. We have to choose joy and keep choosing it every day.
Henri Nouwen


Allow yourself to trust joy and embrace it. You will find you dance with everything.
Ralph Waldo Emerson


 The certain pathway to all things that you want is through the corridor of joy.
Abraham-Hicks
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher-Hershey
 
Simplicity, clarity, singleness: these are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy.
Richard Halloway
 
Joy is a return to the deep harmony of body, mind, and spirit that was yours at birth and that can be yours again. That openness to love, that capacity for wholeness with the world around you, is still within you.
Deepak Chopra 

 
Joy is not in things; it is in us.
Richard Wagner
 
A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
 
Don't postpone joy until you have learned all of your lessons. Joy is your lesson.
Alan Cohen
 
Begin today. Declare out-loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
We are shaped by our thoughts, we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves. 
Buddha
  
Listen to the clues. The next time you feel real joy, stop and think. Pay attention. Because joy is the universe’s way of knocking on your mind’s door. Hello in there. Is anyone home? Can I leave a message? Yes? Good! The message is that you are happy, and that means that you are in touch with your purpose.  
Steve Chandler
The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world’s joy.
Henry Ward Beecher
 
My mind to me a kingdom is, such present joys I therein find, that it excels all other bliss.
Sir Edward Dyer
I am wealth. I am abundance. I am joy.
David Cameron Gikandi
 
 
The closer you come to your core, the greater is your joy.
Torkom Saraydarin
 
The walls we build around us to keep sadness out also keeps out the joy.
Jim Rohn
 
Increase your joy by doing the good you wish to have done to you.
Daisaku Ikeda
 
We learn in our guts, not just in our brain, that a life of joy is not in seeking happiness, but in experiencing and simply being the circumstances of our life as they are; not in fulfilling personal wants, but in fulfilling the needs of life…
Charlotte Jojo Beck 

 
Focus on the journey, not the destination. Joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it. 
Greg Anderson
 
Joy is the infallible sign of the presence of God.
Madeleine L'Engle
 
 
Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern.
Henry Miller 

Joy, has no cost.
Marianne Williamson

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. 
Helen Keller

 The joy of a spirit is the measure of its power.
Ninon de Lenclos
 
To attract something that you want, become as joyful as you think that thing would make you.
Martha Beck


Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties. 
Helen Keller 
 
When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life.
Jean Shinoda Bolen


The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way.
William Blake 
 
Not what we have but what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance.
Epicurus 

 
One joy shatters a hundred griefs.
Chinese Proverb
 
You will find joy in overcoming obstacles.
Helen Keller
 
The greatest gift you can give yourself is joy, not only because of the feeling that goes with it at the moment, but because of the magnificent experience it will draw to you. It will produce wonders in your life.
Jack Boland 


I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
J.Van Amerongen 

Instead of asking 'How much damage will the work in question bring about?' why not ask 'How much good? How much joy?
Henry Miller
 
Joy is not the result of getting what you want; it is the way to get what you want. In the deepest sense, joy is what you want.
Alan Cohen


The only joy in the world is to begin.
Cesare Pavese
 
Love, joy and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.
Eckhart Tolle


Do not judge men by mere appearances; for the light laughter that bubbles on the lip often mantles over the depths of sadness, and the serious look may be the sober veil that covers a divine peace and joy.
Edward Chapin

Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy.
Leo Buscaglia 
 
Joy is what happens when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
Marianne Williamson 
 
Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 

Participate joyfully in the sorrows of the world. We cannot cure the world of sorrows, but we can choose to live in joy.
Joseph Campbell 
 
The only true measure of success is the amount of joy we are feeling.
Abraham-Hicks
 
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
Samuel Butler
 
Sprinkle joy.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
 
Be a dynamo of irrepressible joy!
Babaji


The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.
Leonardo da Vinci 

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path to joy.
Sarah Ban Breathnach 
 
With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.
William Wordsworth 
 
Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest friend. Non-being is the greatest joy.
Lao Tzu


Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough.
Emily Dickinson 

He who binds to himself a joy does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in eternity's sun rise.
William Blake 
 
He sendeth sun, he sendeth shower, alike they’re needed to the flower; and joys and tears alike are sent to give the soul its nourishment.
Sarah Flower Adams

The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life.
Richard Bach 
 
From joy springs all creation, by joy it is sustained, towards joy it proceeds, and unto joy it returns.
Upanishads


Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.
Erich Fromm 
 
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness…all the good things.
Maya Angelou


 The greatest obstacle to connecting with our joy is resentment.
Pema Chodron
 
 
When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom.
Marianne Williamson
 
To awaken each morning with a smile brightening my face; to greet the day with reverence for the opportunities it contains; to approach my work with a clean mind; to hold ever before me, even in the doing of little things, the ultimate purpose toward which I am working; to meet men and women with laughter on my lips and love in my heart; to be gentle, kind, and courteous through all the hours; to approach the night with weariness that ever woos sleep and the joy that comes from work well done - this is how I desire to waste wisely my days.
Thomas Dekker
  
 
We laugh to survive. Then, with joy we thrive.
Mary Anne Radmacher
 


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: June 4, 2010



Adversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so we see ourselves as we really are.
Arthur Golden


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Recovery Quote Of The Week: May 24, 2010

Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow.
Mary Jean Irion

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