Read Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul Daily Inspirations (Chicken Soup for the Soul) Online
Authors: Jack Canfield,Mark Victor Hansen,Peter Vegso,Gary Seidler,Theresa Peluso,Tian Dayton,Rokelle Lerner,Robert Ackerman
Chicken Soup for the Recovering Soul Daily Inspirations (Chicken Soup for the Soul) (25 page)
Rokelle Lerner
There is no failure except in no longer trying.
Elbert Hubbard
Footnotes for Life
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ften the appearance of something is not really that thing at all,but rather the lackof something else. For whatisdarknessbuttheabsenceoflight?Sorrowbut the absence of joy?Hate but the absence of love? Lack but the absence of abundance? There is no lack in God. Embrace abundance.
Today I release old thoughts, patterns or habits that impede my life experience. I open, totally and completely, to a divine abundance of good in all areas of my life.
Jeffrey R.Anderson
If we share with caring and love, we will create abundance and joy for each other.
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Footnotes for Life
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ars rust. Rusting must start inside somewhere. Then it just pops out in spots through the paint. Once it starts, it goes fast, from a speck to many specks to a whole part. It’s the same with addicts. Rusty cars are hard to remember new. Their vexations blot out the memory of their charm, their accessories and even particular model year. It takes concentration to call up the original image. It’s the same with alcoholics. Old cars begin to look alike, inside and out, but they get the job done again and again. They gain respect, a place in the family, and even acceptance and understanding of frequent breakdowns. It’s the same with addicts and alcoholics.
Joseph R. Cruse
Courage is a quality so necessary for maintaining virtue that it is always respected.
Samuel Johnson
Footnotes for Life
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espite the miracle in my life, recovery remains a day-to-day process. It began with the supernatural power to forgive and it continues with a grateful and ever repentant heart.
Miracles do happen. Seekers do get healed. Lives can be forever changed. Recovery is not just a road, it is also a reason.
Rev.Ed Donnally
It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth looking at.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Footnotes for Life
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ach day produces a fresh opportunity to make new choices. Sometimes my past throws a shadow over the present. A fresh outlook, a new attitude and the determination to cast off the old weights will brighten my path through recovery. I learn to dodge, scale and push through the barriers that block the road to success. Continually looking over my shoulder makes it difficult to avoid the stumbling blocks in my path or to recognize and embrace the new plans for my future. I look forward to tomorrow. The best part of life might be just on the horizon.
Valerie Frost
Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.
Harvey Mackay
Footnotes for Life
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atural anger is meant to protect me from harm and help me to know how I feel. In the past, I learned to stuff my own anger and I lost track of my own responses to situations because I denied my feelings before I knew I had them. Today I let myself have my angry feelings without letting them have me. I needn’t let the feeling flood me or make me feel I need to react. I let my anger inform me that something is not okay so that I can be honest with myself and with others.
Tian Dayton
He who has been angry becomes cool again.
Greek Proverb
Footnotes for Life
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believe the day I stopped trying to get over the loss of my mother was the day I truly began to heal. Sometimes we can’t recover the person we used to be. By accepting our new persona we acquire the ability to get on with our lives–to live with new hopes and new skills.
Elva Stoelers
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Footnotes for Life
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on’t deny sorrow and pretend that it doesn’t exist. Just know that with sorrow comes hope to nurture our inner strength.
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ope is healing, hope is
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vercoming our problems and pain. Hope rests in the
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erseverance that we portray in the face of adversity and quite simply hope is
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verywhere. We hope to recover and we recover through hope . . . for sometimes hope is all we have.
Elizabeth Batt
Things never go so well that one should have no fear, and never so ill that one should have no hope.