Top 160 Recovery Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “Understanding is the first step to acceptance, and only with acceptance can there be recovery.”

— J.K. Rowling

52. “If you give it to God, He transforms your test into a testimony, your mess into a message, and your misery into a ministry.”

— Rick Warren

53. “Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.”

— Louise Hay

54. “I feel beautiful. I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am.”

— Demi Lovato

55. “You cannot grow unless you are willing to change. You will never improve yourself if you cling to what used to be.”

— Leon Brown

56. “Rest when you’re weary. Refresh and renew yourself, your body, your mind, your spirit. Then get back to work.”

— Ralph Marston

57. “Acceptance is the only way out of hell.”

— Marsha M. Linehan

58. “When you have your health, you have everything. When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.”

— Augusten Burroughs

59. “There’s always a way through things if you work hard enough and look close. It all depends on your level of determination.”

— Liz Murray

60. “Realize that you are not alone, that we are in this together and most importantly that there is hope.”

— Deepika Padukone

61. “It’s impossible to feel sad or have any negative feeling when you’re grateful. If you’re in the midst of a difficult situation, look for something to be grateful for.”

— Rhonda Byrne

62. “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

— Bikram Choudhury

63. “What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.”

— Viktor E. Frankl

64. “Healing takes time, and asking for help is a courageous step.”

— Mariska Hargitay

65. “I didn’t cause it. I can’t control it. I can’t cure it.”

— David Sheff

66. “Listen to yourself, not the noise of the world. Only you know what is right for you.”

— Leon Brown

67. “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

— Jodi Picoult

68. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.”

— Steve Maraboli

69. “When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.”

— Catherine Ponder

70. “There is great value in disaster. All our mistakes are burned up. Thank God we can start anew.”

— Thomas A. Edison

71. “All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.”

— Helen Keller

72. “You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and feel the power to wish them well.”

— Lewis B. Smedes

73. “It’s OK to not be OK – just don’t stay there.”

— Matt Chandler

74. “Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.”

— Rick Warren

75. “When you numb your pain you also numb your joy.”

— Brené Brown

76. “Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature.”

— Mikao Usui

77. “A setback only paves the way for a comeback.”

— Evander Holyfield

78. “Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.”

— Deborah Day

79. “Trauma is not what happens to us, but what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness.”

— Peter A. Levine

80. “Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen every day.”

— H. Jackson Brown Jr.

81. “I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert

82. “One of the most sublime experiences we can ever have is to wake up feeling healthy after we have been sick.”

— Harold S. Kushner

83. “Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.”

— Leon Brown

84. “I can see clearly now that the rain is gone, I can see all obstacles in my way. Gone are the dark clouds that had me blind, it’s gonna be a bright, bright sun shining day.”

— Johnny Nash

85. “You’ve got to feel better and then things get better.”

— Esther Hicks

86. “I believe that through music we can help heal the world.”

— Michael Jackson

87. “The secret of our success is that we never, never give up.”

— Wilma Mankiller

88. “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.”

— Rumi

89. “You may have failed, but you are not a failure. That’s what you did. That’s not who you are.”

— Joel Osteen

90. “Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.”

— Ovid

91. “To get nations back on their feet, we must first get down on our knees.”

— Billy Graham

92. “Don’t let mental blocks control you. Set yourself free. Confront your fear and turn the mental blocks into building blocks.”

— Dr. Roopleen

93. “Your value doesn’t decrease based on someone’s inability to see your worth.”

— Anonymous

94. “The human spirit is more powerful than any drug and THAT is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. THESE are the things that matter.”

— Robin Williams

95. “I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.”

— Louise Hay

96. “Music saved my life and Music saves me still.”

— Alice Herz-Sommer

97. “If I quit now, I will soon be back to where I started. And when I started I was desperately wishing to be where I am now.”

— Anonymous

98. “But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.”

— John Lewis

99. “If I can’t make it through one door, I’ll go through another door- or I’ll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.”

— Rabindranath Tagore

100. “Stay strong. Depression lies.”

— Wil Wheaton