Addiction Recovery Quotes

“Resentment is like a drug. Once you pick it up, it will only get worse and worse until you surrender and do the work to let it go.”

“It was painful to contemplate the distance between the future of accomplishment I'd imagined for myself twenty years earlier, and the reality...it was painful to understand that the cushion of exceptionality invoked by the drug had made me oblivious to my inertia. And it was painful to have to define myself again, at an age when most people are happy in their own skins.”

“Willpower, though important in its own way, is never enough. In order for you to be truly powerful, you must open up and trust in something beyond yourself—something you cannot prove for certain.”

“You can't defeat the darkness by keeping it caged inside of you.”

“It is time to embrace mental health and substance use/abuse as illnesses. Addiction is a disease.”