"Welcome to AA "
"I never realized how hard it is- ignoring the pain I mean. I just started and never looked back, I didn't feel the need to. I was focusing on me not on anyone else. It started with just one here or there, once every couple of months. But then it got worse, once a day, most of the time more.
I avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward. The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell. Believe you can and you're halfway there.
Nothing is impossible; the word itself says, 'I'm possible!' People often say that motivation doesn't last. Neither does bathing. That's why we recommend it daily. What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us. Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out. It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you. When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it. If we are facing in the right direction, all we have to do is keep on walking. Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. I hated every minute of training, but I said, 'Don't quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.' It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere. If things go wrong, don't go with them. Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail. When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. Believe me, it has nothing new to say. – Unknown
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is! It always seems impossible until it's done. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one. Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself. Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery. People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime. I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger. In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. And that makes me happy. For it says that no matter how hard the world pushes against me, within me, there's something stronger — something better, pushing right back.
Patience and the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right.
There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any. The past is a ghost, the future a dream and all we ever have is now. Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant. Not feeling is no replacement for reality. Your problems today are still your problems tomorrow. I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done. Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you. Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward. Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. Fall seven times, stand up eight. Either you run the day, or the day runs you. I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear.
When was the last time you woke up and wished you'd had just one more drink the night before? I have never regretted not drinking. Say this to yourself, and you'll get through anything. The best way out is always through.
If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else. Amazing how we can light tomorrow with today. 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. Every noble work is at first impossible. The great thing in this world is not so much where you stand, as in what direction you are moving. Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. 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.
Each one of these sentences was said by different person, each one means something different, but they're all about one thing- Addiction. I'm officially 6 months sober, now I don't know if you'd really call it sober, I've just changed what I'm addicted to. I use to love the feel of the razor cutting my skin, now I love the feel of his hands on my skin. I use to love to cut, now I love. I love his hair, and his dopey smile, I love him, I love his scar on his eyebrow, I love his smell. Just being around him makes me forget, forget about the cutting and pain. Yes I'm a recovering addict, but I've healed myself, I found a way to lessen the pain. He is my cure, and you'll find yours. My name is Annabeth Chase, I'm a recovering cutter, addicted to Percy Jackson."