More Inspirational Quotes

More words to accompany your journey to recovery

© Lori Henry

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Here are some more quotes that are empowering. I collected them when I was recovering and they helped to push me when I was floundering.

"The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"We don't see things are they are, we see them as we are."

- Anaïs Nin

"And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more."

- Erica Jong

"When I'm pushing myself, testing myself, that's when I'm happiest. That's when the rewards are greatest."

- Sissy Spacek

"I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it."

- Rita Mae Brown

"If one is a Greyhound, why try to look like a Pekinese?"

- Edith Sitwell

"It's possible to have it all... but not all at once."

- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

"If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"It matters more what's in a woman's face than what's on it."

- Claudette Colbert

"Trouble is part of your life, and if you don't share it, you don't give the [people] who love you enough chance to love you enough."

- Dinah Shore

"It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, [but] it is impossible to find it elsewhere."

- Agnes Repplier

"It is time for every one of us to roll up our sleeves and ut ourselves at the top of our commitment list."

- Marian Wright Edelman

"Go within everyday and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out."

- Katherine Dunham

"You will do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm."

- Collette

"By very slow degrees, and with frequent relapses, that alarmed and grieved my friend, I recovered."

- Mary Shelley (from Frankenstein)

"When you love your body, you are most able to share its pleasures with those who light your heart."

- Huitaco

"Life itself is the proper binge."

- Julia Child


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