Recovery Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old recovery quotes, recovery sayings, and recovery proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Recovery is hard. Regret is harder. Brittany Burgunder
The road to recovery will not always be easy, but I will take it one day at a time, focusing on the moments I’ve dreamed about for so long. Amanda Lindhout
Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day, and it’s something that it doesn’t get a day off. Demi Lovato
My favorite six words in Recovery are: trust God, clean house and help others. Matthew Perry
My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That’s who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size . . . It gives me a spiritual anchor. Eric Clapton
You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do. Kurt Vonnegut
We are all damaged goods in recovery. Charles Spurgeon
Recovery challenges everything we 'knew to be true'. Laurie Davidson
Recovery is about making room for the real me to exist. Jenni Schaefer
Part of recovery is relapse. I dust myself off and move forward again. Steven Adler
Few people realize that health actually varies according to the amount of laughter. So does recovery. People who laugh actually live longer than those who do not laugh. James J. Walsh
Openness is the first step toward recovery. David Sheff
Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better. Emile Coue
We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime. Mahatma Gandhi
Recovery is letting go of your current life by accepting your pain as you create a new atmosphere for yourself where you're less likely to be triggered, where you're more likely to fill your emptiness with things that are healthy for you. Gemma Rose
We have a disease that cannot be cured, and recovery requires that we work hard every day to be humble, honest, tolerant, forgiving, and, always, teachable. William Cope Moyers
See the wretch, that long has tost / On the thorny bed of pain, / At length repair his vigour lost, / And breathe, and walk again: / The meanest floweret of the vale, / The simplest note that swells the gale, / The common sun, the air, the skies, / To Him are opening paradise. Thomas Gray
It is part of the cure to want to be cured. Seneca
Simple presence is the artery through which health pulses; Simple contact is the vein that restores universal healing. Jesus of Nazareth
Healing comes only from that which leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglements with ego. Carl Jung
Drugs are not always necessary, (but) belief in recovery always is. Norman Cousins
The miracle of self-healing occurs when the inner patient yields to the inner physician. Vernon Howard
We have a pharmacy inside us that is absolutely exquisite. It makes the right medicine, for the precise time, for the right target organ - with no side effects. Deepak Chopra
Complete health and awakening are really the same. Tarthang Tulku
Resilience is defined as a person's ability to recover quickly from difficulties. It's about standing back up after you've been knocked down. Sarah Woodhouse
One of the toughest parts of inpatient drug rehab besides battling the addiction is finding and keeping the motivation to keep pushing forward. Recovery can be exhausting but so worth it. Recovery Quotes (aka Jackie)
I had to remind myself that I had lived through it, already. I had known the pain, and survived it. It only remained for me to give it voice, to share it for use, that the pain not be wasted. Audre Lorde
Consistency is a very important part of recovery. David Carver Jr.
A remarkable recovery shows what an alert mind can do! Inspector Gadget
Quite simply, keeping your brain busy aids recovery. Mind. Body. Dr. Maura Isles