Recovery Quotations

~ " Poetry is conceived and composed in the soul " ~


"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."
~ Dale Carnegie ~

"And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years"
~ Abraham Lincoln ~

"Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can describe it only from the vantage point of distance."
~ Charles A. Lindbergh ~

"Ninety percent of the world's woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their abilities, their frailties, and even their real virtues. Most of us go almost all the way through life as complete strangers to ourselves."
~ Sydney J. Harris ~

"Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life, but define yourself."
~ Harvey Fierstein ~

"The meaning of things lies not in the things themselves, but in our attitude towards them."
~ Unknown ~

"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life."
~ Berthold Auerbach, German Writer (1812-1882)

"As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit."
~ Unknown ~

"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 ~

"It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson ~

"We are brothers and sisters of the same blood, brothers and sisters of the same mud, from our mother the Earth. What separates us from one another is lack of understanding."
~ The Song Catchers (Native American) ~

"At the end of our time on earth, if we have lived fully, we will not be able to say, 'I was always happy.' Hopefully, we will be able to say, 'I have experienced a lifetime of real moments, and many of them were happy moments.
~ Unknown ~

"Action may not bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action."
~ William James ~

"Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can."
~ Danny Kaye ~

"If we listened to our intellect, we'd never have a love affair. We'd never have a friendship. We'd never go into business, because we'd be cynical. Well, that's nonsense. You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down."
~ Ray Bradbury ~

 "The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own unique life form--which cannot be used by any other."
~ Carl Jung ~

 "Be your own person ~ live your own life ~ you are unique, one of a kind ~ the world needs you ~ you have many choices ~ you can be many things.

 "I think one's feelings waste themselves in words; they ought all to be distilled into actions which bring results"
~ Florence Nightingale ~



 
   
 


 
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