words of wisdom

Change is not a four letter word… but often your reaction to it is!

– Jeffrey Gitomer

The first three steps taught me how to give up. Four, five and six taught me how to own up. Seven, eight and nine taught me how to make up. Ten, eleven and twelve taught me how to grow up.

-Unknown

If you spend time praying for people instead of talking about them. You’ll get better results.

-Unknown

Addiction is just a way of trying to get at something else. Something bigger. Call it transcendence if you want, but it’s like a rat in a maze. We all want the same thing. We all have this hole. The thing you want offers relief, but it’s a trap.

– Tess Callahan

Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.

– Robert Collier

We honor ourselves when we speak out for recovery. We show the world that recovery matters because it brings hope and peace into the lives of individuals and their loved ones.

– Beth Wilson

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

You can come out of the furnace of trouble two ways: if you let it consume you, you come out a cinder; but there is a kind of metal which refuses to be consumed, and comes out a star.

– Jean Church

Experience is not what happens to you, it is what you do with what happens to you.

– Aldous Huxley

People spend a lifetime searching for happiness; looking for peace. They chase idle dreams, addictions, religions, even other people, hoping to fill the emptiness that plagues them. The irony is the only place they ever needed to search was within.

– Ramona L. Anderson