Quotes

A selection of my favourite recovery quotes which help me remember why recovery is worth it... 

Contact me if you have any amazing or special quotes of your own that might help me or other Recovery Ninjas.



"You have to be brave with your life so others can be brave with theirs"

"We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot."
Eleanor Roosevelt





It is better to believe than to disbelieve; in so doing, you bring everything to the realm of possibility. Albert Einstein


"My anorexia was a war between my body and my mind that began when I swallowed my feelings." -- Corazon Tierra                                                                                        It's time to speak out



"To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting."
~ E. E. Cummings 


"You don't have to control your thoughts; you just have to stop letting them control you."
-Dan Millman-

"Finish each day and be done with it ...You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson -


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

I saw this written on another pro-recovery site 'Pro Recovery on Tumblr' and needed to share, because it is MORE than true...

"There are no dreams with relapse, there are no dreams with having an eating disorder. There is no future, there is no happiness, there is nothing. There are better things coming for you. You have to reach out, you have to let yourself get the help you need. This is the only way out."