We love a good quote, especially on those tough days when you just need a little something to push you forward and refocus your perspective. Below is a compilation of some of our absolute favorite ones related to addiction, loving an addict, and moving forward.
- “The worst part about anything that’s self-destructive is that it’s so intimate. You become so close with your addictions and illnesses that leaving them behind is like killing the part of yourself that taught you how to survive.” – Lacey L.
- “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.” -Jim Morrison
- “Sometimes we have to drag the skeletons in the closet out into the light of day, confront them head-on, and demolish their power. We have to stop allowing our past to determine the course of our future.” -Allison Bottke
- “Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “No more distractions, no more excuses. Lean into your resistance and do what must be done to create a life you love. It’s time.” -J. Mike Fields
- “You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.” -Margaret Atwood
- “We lost because we told ourselves we lost.” -Leo Tolstoy
- “Life is truly known only to those who suffer, lose, endure adversity and stumble from defeat to defeat.” -Anais Nin
- “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from those who have never left home.” -Rumi
- “Decisions, not conditions, determine what a man is.” -Viktor Frankl
- “Listen, are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?” -Mary Oliver
- “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Hell is truth seen too late.” -Thomas Hobbes
- “The point was never what we chose, the point is that we had the power to make a choice.” -Gloria Steinem
- “Beautiful things happen when you distance yourself from negativity.” -Unknown
- “Do not act as if you were going to live ten thousand years.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be unhappy all the days of your life.” -Abraham Maslow
- “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.” -Marie Curie
- “In spite of everything, I shall rise again.” -Vincent van Gogh
- “Rule your mind, or it will rule you.” -Horatius
- “It may seem difficult at first but everything is difficult at first.” -Miyamoto Musashi
- “Beginning is easy, continuing in the face of struggle is hard.” -Japanese Proverb
- “There is another world, but it is in this one.” -William Butler Yeats
- “And to heal, you must first allow yourself to feel everything.” -Zahra
- “If you continue to carry bricks from your past, you will end up building the same house.” -Theo Van
- “I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.” -Albert Einstein
- “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “A man is great not because he hasn’t failed; a man is great because failure hasn’t stopped him.” -Confucius
- “The limit is not the sky. The limit is the mind.” -Wim Hof
- “No amount of anxiety makes any difference to anything that is going to happen.” -Alan Watts
- “Time is a created thing. To say ‘I don’t have time,’ is like saying, ‘I don’t want to.’ ” -Lao Tzu
- “Forces beyond your control can take away everything you possess except one thing, your freedom to choose how you will respond to the situation.” -Viktor Frankl
- “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” -John A. Shedd
- “No matter how isolated you are and how lonely you feel, if you do your work truly and conscientiously, unknown friends will come and seek you.” -Carl Jung
- “Self-esteem comes from what you think of you, not what other people think of you.” -Gloria Gaynor
- “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” -Thales
- “To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in suffering.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
- “It is a recognized fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more easily than in ourselves.” -Leonardo da Vinci
- “We generate fears while we sit. We overcome them by action. Fear is nature’s way of warning us to get busy.” -Dr. Henry Link
- “The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.” -Epictetus
- “Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.” -Van Gogh
- “Could it be that some of us need to walk through difficult valleys to gain the unique perspective that a Higher Power will use to bring us closer to Him and perhaps impact others?” -Allison Bottke
- “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” -Soren Kierkegaard
- “First say to yourself what you will be; and then do what you have to do.” -Epictetus
- “Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
- “You are the greatest project you’ll ever work on. Restart. Reset. Refocus. As many times as you need.” -Unknown
- “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” -Epicurus
- “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” -Rabindranath Tagore
- “All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.” Eleanor Farjeon
- “For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.” -T.S. Eliot
- “The true poet has no choice of material. The material plainly chooses him, not he it.” -J.D. Salinger
- “Everybody soon or late, sits down to a banquet of consequences.” -Robert L Stevenson
- “You’re willing to die you coward, but not to live.” -Herman Hesse
- “When you understand everything you can forgive everything.” -Leo Tolstoy
- “Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways.” -Sigmund Freud
- “Dreams are free, but goals have a cost. Which are time, effort, sacrifice, and sweat.” -Usain Bolt
- “When the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.” -Japanese Proverb
- “More men have becomes great through practice than by nature.” -Democritus
- “Failure is success in progress.” -Albert Einstein
- “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding for ourselves.” -Carl Jung
- “The truth will set you free, but first it will make you angry.” -M. Scott Peek
- “Warriors are not the ones who always win but the ones that always fight.” -Unknown
- “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” -Rumi
- “Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed.” -Paulo Coelho
- “I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.” -Langston Hughes
- “Pain and suffering are a kind of currency passed from hand to hand until they reach someone who receives them but does not pass them on.” -Simone Weil
- “Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.” -Epictetus
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus
- “The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.” -Robertson Davies
- “Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.” -Salvador Dali
- “The secret of achievement is to hold a picture of a successful outcome in mind.” -Henry Thoreau
- “Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.” -Voltaire
- “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” -Mary Shelley
- “I shall either find a way or make one.” -Hannibal
- “The power of thoughts can either cause you illness or recovery.” -Ibn Sina
- “If you take responsibility for yourself, you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams.” -Dennis S. Browns
- “The scariest thing is to fully accept yourself.” -Carl Jung
- “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” -Alexis Carell
- “Courage is knowing what not to fear.” -Plato
- “I believe that the ultimate role of painful memories is to bring us to a place where we release our human desire to understand the why of what happened and instead choose to depend on the ONE who allowed it to happen and to learn what He wants us to learn from it.” -Allison Bottke
- “Whatever time you choose is the right time. Not late, not early.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Fortune favors the bold.” -Virgil
- “Make improvements, not excuses. Seek respect, not attention.” -Roy T. Bennet
- “Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.” -Josh Billings
- “Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive character are seared with scars.” -Kahlil Gibran
- “The reward for our work is not what we get, but what we become.” -Paulo Coelho
- “You cannot hope to make progress on areas where you have taken no action.” -Epictetus
- “Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.” -Theodore Roosevelt
- “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” -James Baldwin
- “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” -Carl Jung
- “Your circumstances do not define you. They try to beat you up one side and down the other and convince you that all is lost. Let your heart see beyond them into what only God knows waits for you.” -Anonymous
- “We are always complaining that our days are few, and acting as though there would be no end to them.” -Seneca
- “Seeing your negative thoughts and painful memories through the lens of faith, forgiveness and hope can truly change your life.” -Allison Bottke
- “To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all.” -Goethe
- “Some people move on; some don’t. Some of us get stuck. And quite often we don’t even realize it’s a painful memory in the past that is causing us problems in the present.” -Allison Bottke
- “We sit in the middle of these traumas or we move through them. That’s our choice” -Anonymous
- “Painful memories from traumatic events can block our growth in healthy areas. I don’t expect a wound to heal if I keep picking at it, but with emotional hurts, it seems harder to apply that principle. Painful memories can taint our attitude toward people and life. It gives me a very narrow focus while blocking out better things in my life” -Anonymous
- “Many of our excuses have become quite comfortable, like a warm and fuzzy blankie that we use to wrap around our broken hearts and shattered dreams.” -Allison Bottke
- “Every difficulty in life presents us with an opportunity to turn inward and to invoke our own inner resources.” -Epictetus
- “You are not defeated when you lose. You are defeated when you quit.” -Paulo Coelho
- “When a person can’t find a deep sense of meaning, they distract themselves with pleasure.” -Viktor Frankl
- “I have found that if you love life, life will love you back.” -Arthur Rubinstein
- “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?” -Rumi
- “Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can’t practice any other virtue consistently.” -Maya Angelou
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore
- “Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.” -Andre Malraux
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin
- “Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.” -Anton Chekhov
- “The past returns to see if you grew or not. Don’t fold.” -Unknown
- “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “We are all broken, that’s how the light gets in.” -Ernest Hemingway
- “How many of us are burying our negative thoughts and emotions under a pile of wrongful blame and dysfunctional excuses?” -Allison Bottke
- “Our life is what our thoughts make it.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Addiction is a thief in the night, it robs you of your being, and I am here to bear witness to your rebirth, to the slow recovery of your soul.” -Unknown
- “If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “When we fail to set boundaries and hold people accountable, we feel used and mistreated. This is why we sometimes attack who they are, which is far more hurtful than addressing a behavior or a choice.” ― Brené Brown
- “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” ― Dr. Henry Cloud & Dr. John Townsend
- “Evaluating the benefits and drawbacks of any relationship is your responsibility. You do not have to passively accept what is brought to you. You can choose.” ― Deborah Day
- “Boundaries are, in simple terms, the recognition of personal space.” ― Asa Don Brown
- “Be in your own skin, as an act of self-loving.” ― H. Raven Rose
- “The only real conflict you will ever have in your life won’t be with others, but with yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Seneca
- “The most important distinction anyone can ever make in their life is between who they are as an individual and their connection with others.” ― Anné Linden
- “Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it’s equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.” ― Laurie Buchanan, PhD
- “Having healthy boundaries not only requires being able to say “no”, but also being willing and able to enforce that “no” when necessary.” ― Jessica Moore
- “All her life, Claire had had a problem figuring out where other people ended and she began. All her life, she’d taken on the world’s hurt; she held herself responsible. But why?” ― Elin Hilderbrand, A Summer Affair
- “Too often our ‘line in the sand’ falls prey to the wind in our desert.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal
- “You can knock on a deaf man’s door forever.” -Nikos Kazantzakis
- “Fortune favors the bold.” -Virgil
- “I am not what happened to me, I am what I choose to become.” -Carl Jung
- “You are the greatest project that you’ll ever work on. Restart. Reset. Refocus. As many times as you need.” -Unknown
- “Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “If there are gates in your boundaries you have a freeway in the making.” ― Craig D. Lounsbrough
- “Boundaries aren’t about creating rigid walls. They allow you to rest in your authenticity.” ― Ash Alves
- “When the burden is not yours to carry, put it down.” ― Najamah Davis, MSW, LCSW
- “Those who assume your boundaries are meaningless should not have a meaningful spot in your life.” ― Christine E. Szymanski
- “If you don’t voice your concerns and speak your truth, people will assume that you’ll accept disrespectful behavior.” ― Vanessa Ooms
- “You don’t hurt people by choosing yourself over them. They hurt themselves with what they think about it. It’s not your job to fold yourself up so small that your edges never bump into anyone else. What kind of life is that?” ― Roan Parrish, The Holiday Trap
- “You have power over your mind – not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Things that cost me my peace are subject to removal” ― Kalen Dion
- “You didn’t grow apart because you’re evil, but because you evolved.” ― Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “Setting boundaries isn’t about keeping people out, it’s about protecting the energy you allow in.” ― Felecia Etienne
- “We can’t connect with someone unless we’re clear about where we end and they begin.” ― Brené Brown
- “There are no right or wrong rules, but which are your rules? It’s your house, they are your boundaries, and you decide.” ― Michelle Elman
- “No man is free who is not master of himself.” -Epictetus
- “I’m not doing this to disrespect you. I’m doing this to respect myself.” ― Nedra Glover Tawwab
- “The season you’re entering requires you have better standards for yourself and the people you allow to have intimate access to you.” ― Ash Alves
- “Intentional or not, I was being taught that my discomfort was unimportant and that the potential of upsetting another outweighed my own feelings.” ― Michelle Elman
- “Respectful boundaries are needed so that we can look after ourselves and continue to give to others. After all, nobody can be expected to pour from an empty cup.” ― Mungi Ngomane
- “Without boundaries you are lost in the void with no horizon.” ― Elena Tauros, One Thousand Cranes
- “We are all entitled to feel worthy of our time here. Therefore, boundary those who make you feel unworthy in any way today.” ― Chidi Ejeagba
- “The people closest to you have the most to lose by losing you so they are the most resistant to you changing.” ― Jen Sincero, Badass Habits
- “When you refuse to forgive someone, you still want something from that person, and even if it is revenge that you want, it keeps you tied to that person forever.” ― Henry Cloud / John Townsend
- “When you respect someone, you make a conscious choice to not cross their boundaries. Regardless of the type of relationship that you have with one another.” ― Robin S. Baker
- “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” ― Sharon Salzberg
- “Setting healthy boundaries in any area of life can be fraught with obstacles. Quite often, those obstacles include excuses- both those we tell ourselves or others and those others tell us.” -Allison Bottke
- “To love someone in addiction is to love two people in one body: the one that was, and the one that struggles to break free.” -Unknown
- “Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster.” -Nietzsche
- “I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.’” – Muhammad Ali
- “I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.” – Charlotte Bron
- “The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand as what direction you are moving.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” -Robert Collier
- “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
- “Before you can break out of prison, you must realize you are locked up.” -Unknown
- “At first, addiction is maintained by pleasure, but the intensity of the pleasure gradually diminishes and the addiction is then maintained by the avoidance of pain.” – Frank Tallis
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” – Zig Ziglar
- “The goal isn’t to be sober. The goal is to love yourself so much that you don’t need to drink.” – Anonymous
- “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” – Hecato
- “Drugs take you to hell, disguised as heaven.” – Donald Lyn Frost
- “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell
- “The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.” – Confucius
- “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.” – Carrie Fisher
- “One of the hardest things was learning that I was worth recovery.” – Demi Lovato
- “Either you run the day, or the day runs you.” – Jim Rohn
- “I realized that I only had two choices: I was either going to die or I was going to live, and which one did I want to do? And then I said those words, ‘I’ll get help,’ or, ‘I need help. I’ll get help.’ And my life turned around. Ridiculous for a human being to take 16 years to say, ‘I need help.’” – Sir Elton John
- “No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.” – George Chakiris
- “Recovery is hard, but not recovering is harder.” – 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
- “Addiction is a process that starts with pain and ends with pain.” – Unknown
- “Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking of what we want to become. Sometimes we motivate ourselves by thinking about who we don’t ever want to be again.”– Shane Niemeyer
- “Cause sometimes you just feel tired. Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up. But you gotta search within you. You gotta find that inner strength. And just pull it out of you, and get that motivation to not give up, and not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face.” – Eminem
- “We don’t choose to be addicted; what we choose to do is deny our pain.” – Unknown
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I understood myself only after I destroyed myself. And only in the process of fixing myself, did I know who I really was.” -Unknown
- “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
- “You don’t get over an addiction by stopping using. You recover by creating a new life where it is easier not to use. If you don’t create a new life, then all the factors that brought you to your addiction will catch up with you again” -Unknown
- “The world will ask you who you are, and if you don’t know, the world will tell you.” -Carl Jung
- “Addiction is a lot like looking for love in all the wrong places.” – Sinclair Lewis
- “There’s not a drug on earth that can make life meaningful.” – Unknown
- “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
- “Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles, and you have to change. ” – Jamie Lee Curtis
- “Recovery didn’t open the gates of heaven and let me in. Recovery opened the gates of hell and let me out!” – Anonymous
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “Healing doesn’t mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls your life.” – Unknown
- “When you stop chasing the wrong things, you give the right things a chance to catch you.” – Lolly Daskal
- “Sobriety is the greatest gift you can give yourself.” – Anonymous
- “Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it.” -Epictetus
- “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” -Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.” -Abraham Maslow
- “I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn’t.” -Khaled Hosseini
- “I learned a long time ago that in order to heal my wounds, I must have the courage to face up with them.” -Paulo Coelho
- “You don’t have to be anything but yourself to be worthy.” -Tarana Burke
- “People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.” -Carl Jung
- “We all know that a good example is more effective than advice. So set a good example, and it won’t take long for others to follow.” -Anne Frank
- “Everything you’ve ever wanted is sitting on the other side of fear.” -George Addair
- “The wound is the place where the light enters you.” -Rumi
- “The truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” -Thomas Sowell
- “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.” -Walter Elliot
- “The greatest sin you can commit against your own life is to know what you want and not to act.” -Kim Stafford
- “You will earn the respect of all if you begin by earning the respect of yourself.” -Musonius Rufus
- “Nobody can save you but yourself and it will be easy enough to fail so very easily but don’t, don’t, don’t.” -Charles Bukowski
- “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” -Socrates
- “You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.” -Rabindranath Tagore
- “You are in danger of living a life so comfortable and soft, that you will die without even realizing your true potential.” -David Goggins
- “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” -Carl Jung
- “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” -Hermann Hesse
- “Sometimes when you are in a dark place you think you’ve been buried, but you’ve actually been planted.” -Christine Caine
- “The first and greatest victory is to conquer self.” -Plato
- “Don’t wait. The time will never be right.” -Napoleon Hill
- “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
- “You are not your addiction. You are the person who is leaving it behind.” – Anonymous
- “Recovery is not just about getting sober. It’s about healing the mind, body, and soul, and reclaiming your life.” – Unknown
- “We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut
- “I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.” -William Ernest Henley
- “If I accept the sunshine and warmth I must also accept the thunder and the lightning.” -Khalil Gibran
- “Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
- “You can ignore the reality, but you cannot ignore the consequences of ignoring that reality.” -Ayn Rand
- “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” -Jim Rohn
- “A bear the wounds of all the battles I avoided.” -Fernando Pessoa
- “We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.” -Kenji Miyazawa
- “If you fulfill your obligations everyday you don’t need to worry about the future.” -Jordan Peterson
- “Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.” -Stephen King
- “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” -Albert Einstein
- “Only during hard times do people come to understand how difficult it is to be master of their feelings and thoughts.” -Anton Chekhov
- “A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials.” -Seneca
- “One foot in front of the other. Repeat as often as necessary to finish.” -Haruki Murakami
- “The struggle you’re in today is developing the strength you need for tomorrow.” -Robert Tew
- “Life is a sum of all your choices. So, what are you doing today?” -Albert Camus
- “Bad times have a scientific value. These are occasions a good learner would not miss.” -Waldo Emerson
- “It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is possible to find it anywhere else.” -Arthur Schopenhauer
- “A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” -George Bernard Shaw
- “Without suffering, I would never have been blessed.” -Edgar Allan Poe
- “Our anxiety does not come from thinking about the future, but from wanting to control it.” -Khalil Gibran
- “It’s never too late to recover, to make amends, and to start anew.” – Unknown
- “Nobody stays recovered unless the life they have created is more rewarding and satisfying than the one they left behind.” – Anne Fletcher
- “What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.” – Alice Miller
- “Fall seven times, stand up eight.” – Japanese proverb
- “Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.” – Unknown
- “You are not your addiction; to me, you are the symphony of reasons to hope, and that melody keeps me company in your absence.” -Unknown
- “I have come to believe that caring for myself is not self-indulgent. Caring for myself is an act of survival.” – Audre Lorde
- “Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends of being the biggest step of your life. Tiptoe if you must, but take the step.” – Naeem Callaway
- “Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Coller
- “When we give away our boundaries, we give away our life.” ― W. Allen Morris
- “Anger was how you protected yourself before you learned to set boundaries.” ― Laura Monnett
- “Boundaries we set for our life are important, life-saving even. A lot of hurt comes from allowing others to guilt us into breaking them.” ― Zara Hairston
- “I go with my flow, not yours. ” ― J.S. Wolfe, The Unfolding
- “The world will tell you what you are worth, until you show it you are not for sale.” ― Broms The Poet, Feast
- “Safe spaces have boundaries. You are a safe space. So set your boundaries.” ― Bethanee Epifani J. Bryant, Don’t Fall Prey!
- “As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.” -Carl Jung
- “Confront the dark parts of yourself, and work to banish them with illumination and forgiveness. Your willingness to wrestle with your demons will cause your angels to sing.” ― August Wilson
- “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.” ― Marilyn Monroe
- “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
- “One’s dignity may be assaulted, vandalized and cruelly mocked, but it can never be taken away unless it is surrendered.” ― Michael J. Fox
- “There is no magic cure, no making it all go away forever. There are only small steps upward; an easier day, an unexpected laugh, a mirror that doesn’t matter anymore.” ― Laurie Halse Anderson, Wintergirls
- “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon Alder
- “The man who does not value himself, cannot value anything or anyone.” ― Ayn Rand, The Virtue of Selfishness
- “Dare to love yourself, as if you were a rainbow, with gold at both ends.” ― Author-Poet Aberjhani
- “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Until you value yourself, you won’t value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it.” ― M. Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled
- “I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.” ― Edward Everett Hale
- “Everything that happens to you is a reflection of what you believe about yourself. We cannot outperform our level of self-esteem. We cannot draw to ourselves more than we think we are worth.” ― Iyanla Vanzant
- “How would your life be different if…You stopped allowing other people to dilute or poison your day with their words or opinions? Let today be the day…You stand strong in the truth of your beauty and journey through your day without attachment to the validation of others.” ― Steve Maraboli
- “Why should we be angry at the world? As if the world would notice.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Self-talk reflects your innermost feelings.” ― Dr. Asa Don Brown
- “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.” ― Dr. Roopleen, Words to Inspire the Winner in YOU
- “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” –Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.” –Marie Curie
- “Life has no limitations, except the ones you make.” –Les Brown
- “Start each day with a positive thought and a grateful heart.” –Roy Bennett
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” –Thomas Edison
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” –Anais Nin
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” –Albert Einstein
- “You do not find the happy life. You make it.” –Camilla Eyring Kimball
- “If you own this story you get to write the ending.” –Brene Brown
- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” –Lillian Dickinson
- “Accept no one’s definition of your life, define yourself.” –Harvey Fierstein
- “Your worst sin is that you have been destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing.” -Dostoevsky
- “If you love life, don’t waste time, for time is what life is made up of.” –Bruce Lee
- “Mistakes are a fact of life. It is the response to the error that counts.” –Nikki Giovanni
- “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” –Gail Sheehy
- “The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.” –Frank Sinatra
- “Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains become your greatest strengths.” –Drew Barrymore
- “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” –Joshua J. Marine
- “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” –Kathrine Mansfield
- “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw
- “Happiness is not by chance but by choice.” -Jim Rohn
- “Sometimes, when things are falling apart, they may actually be falling into place.” -Unknown
- “Positive anything is better than negative nothing.” -Elbert Hubbard
- “Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results.” -Willie Nelson
- “Each day comes bearing its gifts. Untie the ribbon.” -Anne Ruth Shabacker
- “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” -Dolly Parton
- “A dead end is just a good place to turn around.” -Naomi Judd
- “Choose to be optimistic. It feels better.” -Dali Lama
- “Believing you are unworthy of love and belonging-that who you are authentically is a sin or is wrong-is deadly. Who you are is beautiful and amazing.” -Laverne Cox
- “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.” -Maggie Kuhn
- “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” -Dolly Parton
- “Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.” -Tony Robbins
- “Every strike brings me closer to a home run.” -Babe Ruth
- “The great thing in the world is not so much where you stand as what direction you are moving.” -Oliver Wendell Holmes
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never failing, but in raising every time we fail.” -Nelson Mandela
- “It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” -Joseph Campbell
- “Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.” -Mahatma Gandhi
- “I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life – and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.” -Georgia O’Keeffe
- “People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Neither does bathing. That’s why we recommend it daily.” -Zig Ziglar
- “Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today.” -Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- “Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving. We get stronger and more resilient.” -Steve Maraboli
- “Addiction: the disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc that you created or care about the people whose lives you shattered.” -Unknown
- “Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.” -Seneca
- “Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.” -J. Petit Senn
- “The only journey is the one within.” -Rainer Maria Rilke
- “She goes from one addiction to another. All are ways for her not to feel her feelings.” -Ellen Burstyn
- “If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep walking.” -Buddhist proverb
- “Don’t let the past steal your present.” -Cherrie Moraga
- “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” -Mark Twain
- “We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.” -Willie Nelson
- “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.” -George R.R. Martin
- “It doesn’t hurt to feel sad from time to time.” -Willie Nelson
- “Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.” -Thomas A. Edison
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” -Viktor E. Frankl
- “Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail.” -Charles kettering
- “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” -Babe Ruth
- “When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” -Willie Nelson
- “The time is always right to do what is right.” -Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Always do your best. What you plant now you will harvest later.” -Og Mandino
- “I believe every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don’t intend to waste any of mine.” -Neil Armstrong
- ” In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” -Robert Frost
- “You must expect great things of yourself before you can do them.” -Michael Jordan
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” -Ashton Kutcher
- “The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.” -Willie Nelson
- “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” -Jack Canfield
- “I accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” -Michael Jordan
- “If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.” -Albert Einstein
- “When you change your thoughts, remember to also change your world.” -Norman Vincent Peale
- “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish but you can only spend it once.” -Lillian Dickson
- “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow.” -Mary Ann Radmacher
- “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” Kobe Bryant
- “Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” -Will Rogers
- “A problem is a chance for you to do your best.” -Duke Ellington
- “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” -Douglas Adams
- “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne
- “The truth will set you free but first it will piss you off.” -Willie Nelson
- “The best way out is through.” -Robert Frost
- “You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.” -Maya Angelou
- “To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funny bone.” -Reba McEntire
- “The secret to getting ahead is getting started.” -Mark Twain
- “Courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway.” -John Wayne
- “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” -Walt Disney
- “Life is either a great adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller
- “Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass, it’s about learning to dance in the rain.” -Vivian Greene
- “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” -Dr. Seuss
- “You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore.” -William Faulkner
- “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” -Aristotle Onassis
- “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” -Wayne Gretzky
- “It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop.” -Confucius
- “Life is not a problem to solve, but a reality to be experience.” -Soren Kierkgaard
- “Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.” -Lao-Tzu
- “If you want to enable change, you must be a catalyst for change.” -Willie Nelson
- “Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” -Annette Funicello
- “Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.” -Les Brown
- “Keep your face toward the sunshine and the shadows will fall behind you.” -Walt Whitman
- “Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.” -Gloria Steinem
- “The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.” -Leonard I. Sweet
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.” -Henry Ford
- “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” -Dalai Lama
- “Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.” -John Barrymore
- “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” -Albert Einstein
- “You will face many defeats in life, but never let yourself be defeated.” Maya Angelou
- “If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” -Jim Rohn
- “Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you react to it.” -Charles R. Swindoll
- “The unexamined life is not worth living.” -Socrates
- “Even miracles take a little time.” -The fairy Godmother, Cinderella
- “Being happy never goes out of style.” -Lilly Pulitzer
- “Get busy living or get busy dying.” -Stephen King
- “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” -T.S. Eliot
- “As you know, life is an echo; we get what we give.” -David DeNotaris
- “Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it.” -George Halas
- “Love the life you live. Live the life you love.” -Bob Marley
- “Everything you can imagine is real.” -Pablo Picasso
- “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you’ve imagined.” -Henry David Thoreau
- “The only impossible journey is the one you never begin.” -Tony Robbins
- “Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.” -Hans Christian Andersen
- “Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “Life is trying things to see if they work.” -Ray Bradbury
- “May you live all the days of your life.” -Johnathan Swift
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” -Helen Keller
- “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.” -Steve Jobs
- “In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.” -Albert Camus
- “The more you’re in the moment, the more alive you feel.” -Willie Nelson
- “There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.” -Colin Powell
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” -John D. Rockefeller
- “To be successful, you have to be selfish, or else you will never achieve. And once you get to your highest level, then you have to be unselfish.” -Michael Jordan
- “The road to success and the road to failure are almost exactly the same.” -Colin R. Davis
- “The only place where success comes before work is in the dictionary.” -Vidal Sassoon
- “Nothing is impossible, the word itself says, ‘I’m possible.’ ” -Audrey Hepburn
- “In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.” -Ayn Rand
- “If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.” -J.M. Power
- “Dream big and dare to fail.” -Norman Vaughan
- “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.” -Thomas Jefferson
- “It is still best to be honest and truthful; to make the most of what we have; to be happy with simple pleasures; and have courage when things go wrong.” -Laura Ingalls Wilder
- “Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going.” -Sam Levenson
- “The most difficult thing is to decide to act; the rest is merely tenacity.” -Amelia Earhart
- “Either you run the day or the day runs you.” -Jim Rohn
- “Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.” -Napoleon Hill
- “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou
- “There is never enough time to do everything, but there is always enough time to do the most important thing.” -Brian Tracy
- “Don’t find fault, find a remedy: anyone can complain.” -Henry Ford
- “Always remember, your focus determines your reality.” -George Lucas
- “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there is so much to smile about.” -Marilyn Monroe
- “Courage is grace under pressure.” -Ernest Hemingway
- “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” -Napoleon Hill
- “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now take what’s left and live it properly.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hours a day.” -Zig Zigler
- “You cannot wish for both a strong character and an easy life. The price of each is the other.” -John Ortberg
- “The trouble is, you think you have time.” -Jack Kornfield
- “Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” -Victor Hugo
- “Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” -Aristotle
- “Believe you can, and you’re halfway there.” -Theodore Roosevelt
- “All great achievements require time.” Maya Angelou
- “There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.” -Friedrich Nietzsche
- “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” -Carl Jung
- “To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.” Marilyn Savant
- “Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.” -Rumi
- “Well done is better than well said.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” -Goethe
- “And in the end, it’s you against you. Fighting for yourself.” -Anjali Chaturvedi
- “Stop measuring days by degree of productivity and start experiencing them by degree of presence.” -Alan Watts
- “Conquer yourself rather than the world.” -Rene Descartes
- “Knowledge without action is wastefulness and action without knowledge is foolishness.” -Al-Ghazali
- “People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.” -G.B. Shaw
- “Peace is the only battle worth waging.” -Albert Camus
- “Every action has its pleasures and its price.” -Socrates
- “A fit body, a calm mind, a house full of love. These things cannot be bought- they must be earned.” -Naval Ravikant
- “You may delay but time will not.” -Benjamin Franklin
- “The strongest of all warriors are these two- time and patience.” -Leo Tolstoy
- “Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.” -Sadi of Shiraz
- “You cannot wish for both a strong character and an easy life. The price of each is the other.” -John Ortberg
- “Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.” -Voltaire
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” -Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.” -Napoleon Hill
- “Desires make slaves out of kings and patience makes kings out of slaves.” -Al-Ghazali
- “No one wants you to become yourself. They want you to be the version of yourself that they like.” -Marie Lu
- “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” -Henry Miller
- “Where there is ruin, there is hope for treasure.” -Rumi
- “Victory is reserved for those who are willing to pay its price.” -Sun Tzu
- “If you focus on the hurt, you will continue to suffer. If you focus on the lesson, you will continue to grow.” -Unknown
- “To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” -Anatole France
- “What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it from happening again.” -Anne Frank
- “A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.” -Montaigne
- “Where your fear is, there your task is.” -Carl Jung
- “Healing is taking your power back and using it to move forward.” -Morgan Richard Olivier
- “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” -Abraham Lincoln
- “People do not decide their futures, they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” -F.M. Alexander
- “The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.” -Voltaire
- “A river cuts through rock, not because of its power, but because of its persistence.” -Miyamoto Musashi
- “The trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” -Erica Jong
- “Act according to your principles, not your mood.” -Unknown
- “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” -Anais Nin
- “You become what you give your attention to.” -Epictetus
- “Success is walking from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm.” -Winston Churchill
- “Stay away from negative people. They have a problem for every solution.” -Albert Einstein
- “Courage isn’t having the strength to go on – it is going on when you don’t have strength.” -Napoleon
- “Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” -Langston Hughes
- “The road to paradise begins in hell.” -Dante Alighieri
- “There is power in ending. It takes you to the beginning of what is meant for you.” -Heba Nazar
- “Discipline leads to habits. Habits leads to consistency. Consistency leads to growth.” -Unknown
- “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” -George Bernard Shaw
- “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.” -Alain de Botton
- “If life were predictable, it would cease to be life and be without flavor.” -Eleanor Roosevelt
- “You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do.” -Carl Jung
- “People start to heal the moment they feel heard.” -Cheryl Richardson
- “Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.” -Rene Descartes
- “No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.” -Mary Shelley
- “Conquer yourself rather than the world.” -Descartes
- “No man should judge unless he asks himself in absolute honesty whether in a similar situation he might not have done the same.” -Viktor Frankl
- “Forgive them for what they could not give you. Now, give it to yourself.” -Unknown
- “Don’t hold together what must fall apart. The familiar life crumbles so the new life can begin.” -Bryant McGill
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” -Paulo Coelho
- “I don’t believe you have to be better than everybody else. I believe you have to be better than you ever thought you could be.” -Ken Venturi
- “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” Winston S. Churchill
- “We cannot control our external circumstances, but we can control how we respond to them. Learning to accept what we can’t control is the first step in becoming more resilient.” -Epictetus
- “A slave is one who waits for someone to come and free him.” -Ezra Pound
- “Your reaction defines your experience; it is not the events themselves that disturb us, but our interpretation of them.” -Unknown
- “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Always remember that the life in front of you is far more important than the life behind you.” -Unknown
- “He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.” -Socrates
- “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” -Viktor Frankl
- “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” -Thomas Edison
- “Pleasures, when they go beyond a certain limit, are but punishments.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “Remember, growth might feel like breaking at first.” -Unknown
- “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life, and you will call it fate.” -C.G. Jung
- “The truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.” -Thomas Sowell
- “The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.” -Marcus Aurelius
- “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” -Abraham Maslow
- “A mistake repeated more than once is a choice.” -Paulo Coelho
- “Nobody can save you but yourself and it will be easy enough to fail, so very easily but don’t, don’t, don’t.” -Charles Bukowski
- “The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” -Rumi
- “Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.” -Winston Churchill
- “First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.” -F. Scott Fitzgerald
- “You can’t help what you feel, but you can help how you behave.” -Margaret Altwood
- “I finally found my rhythm when I realized that even the steps backward were part of the dance.” -Unknown
- “What is hell? I maintain that it is suffering of being unable to love.” -Fyodor Dostoevsky
- “Those who lack the courage will always find philosophy to justify it.” -Albert Camus
- “The most difficult thing in life is to know yourself.” -Thales
- “Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back everything is different.” -C.S Lewis
- “Strength is built by one’s failures, not by one’s successes.” -Coco Chanel