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Gratitude isn't a tool to manipulate the universe or God. It's a way to acknowledge our faith that everything happens for a reason even if we don't know what that reason is. ~Melody Beattie, 52 Weeks of Conscious Contact, pg. 34. ↗

— Melody Beattie

#gratitude #melody-beattie #recovery #faith

The test we must set for ourselves is not to march alone but to march in such a way that others will wish to join us. ↗

— Hubert Humphrey

#honor #pride #recovery #friendship

But it is hazardous and, I believe, counterproductive to become frozen in time by an obsession with past wrongs and errors. ↗

— George McGovern

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When our perceptions change our lives arrange… ↗

— Namasté Anonymous

#fear #freedom #hope #inspiration #inspirational

What you believe shall be~comings... ↗

— Namasté Anonymous

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Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn't end there. ↗

— Bucky Sinister

#sobriety #life

He still heard his mother's voice--"Davey"--rise like whisper-dust from unseen corners in the house, but it was no longer the only voice he heard. His ears were also filled with the voices of others--his father and Primrose and Refrigerator John and his grandmother. Of course, all of their words for a thousand years could not fill the hole left by his mother, but they could raise a loving fence around it so he didn't keep falling in. ↗

— Jerry Spinelli

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First Embody the Emptiness of Silence Next Embody the Fullness of Honesty & Love Thus Be Heaven Sage Hope (Omid Mankoo) SH... ↗

— Omid Mankoo

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Looking For Love and Looking In All The Wrong Places ↗

— Gordon Rouston

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In the past, I was a perpetual victim; how I was doing in any given moment depended on what happened to me. Today I do my best to avoid this kind of ‘victim thinking.’ Instead, how I am doing is determined by how I respond to what happens to me. ↗

— Jenni Schaefer

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