Quotes About Recovery

One of the most common precursors to relapse is insufficient attendance at OA meetings.

even though I may think like a compulsive overeater, I don't have to act like one.

My Higher Power sent me the message: I was as powerless over food as I was over booze.

It's simple: trust God, keep the fork down, and follow my food plan while living a Twelve-Step way of life like I always do. God will take care of me. He always has and will, no matter what!

Pride and ingratitude are my biggest character defects. Pride is that hardened part in my mind that needs to be softened by humility and a sense of humor. Making a gratitude list is essential to my daily recovery. I frequently include what I did right each day in my gratitude lists; I believe my focus determines what I become.

Whatever the case, after years of making vows and saying prayers but then eating compulsively again, we were left without faith that God could restore us to sanity about food. We believed intellectually that God could do anything, but deep in our hearts we "knew" God couldn't help us with this area of our lives. It was this negative concept about God we had to change if we were to find recovery.

Time is generally the best doctor.

Ozzy, why do you drink so much? What's the point?' The right answer to that question was: because I'm an alcoholic; because I have an addictive personality; because whatever I do, I do it addictively. But I didn't know any of that back then.

I remember coming to in white room, with white walls, and people all around me covered in white sheets and thinking, F**k, I'm in the morgue. Then I heard a hissing noise next to my bed. Pssst, pssst. I looked down and there was this kid holding up a pen and a copy of "Bark at the Moon" . 'Will you sign this for me?' he asked. 'F**k off,' I told him. 'I'm dead.'

All rehab can do is tell you what's wrong with you and then suggest ways for you to get better.

But one of the many problems with being an alcoholic is that when people tell you how bad you are when you're drunk, you're usually drunk. So you just keep getting drunk.

You don't have to believe in God to do the programme. You just have to accept that there's a higher power – it could be the lamp in the corner of the room, for all they care. Some people use nature, the ocean, their d**k – whatever comes to mind.

When I was growing up, no one ever recovered from cancer. I mean, the doc would always tell you it was survivable, but everyone knew that was just bullshit to calm you down.

The way I was boozing was a kind of suicide. It was only gonna be a matter of time.

There are no nonsmokers in this business. Just people trying to quit, and people who haven't started yet.

conforme España, mal gobernada, continuamente en guerra, endeudada y empobrecida, trataba de reponerse del gran trauma de la derrota de su Armada Invencible frente a los ingleses en 1588.

I learned that if I always performed a rescue, the woman never learned to lean on God…..I now realize that I shouldn't work harder at a person's recovery than she is willing to work.

rousing myself from my memories.

You reminded me who I used to be before the war. I want to be that person again.

GROIN session

I hear the doc gave you a thumbs-up on your surgery -Marc to Julian

Rossiter wasn't really on leave. He'd had a catastrophic fall a few years back while saving his wife's life and had lost a leg. He

He never got tired of watching someone who'd been hurt in some way rediscover a sense of joy riding on the back of a horse. Buckwheat

There's no such thing as an uninjured soldier.