"It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it."
Lou Holtz
"Behind every strong person is a story that gave them no choice."
Nakeia Homer
"The way you tell your story to yourself matters."
Amy Cuddy
"Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
Lao Tze
"You will meet two kinds of people in life: ones who build you up and ones who tear you down. But in the end, you’ll thank them both."
Unknown
"Healing also means taking responsibility for the role you play in your own suffering."
Unknown
"One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through, and it will be someone else’s survival guide."
Brene Brown
"Addiction is giving up everything for one thing. Recovery is giving up one thing for everything."
Unknown
"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."
Joseph Campbell
"We fight our future because we’re in love with our familiar."
Unknown
"Sometimes you’ve just got to give yourself what you wish somebody else would give you."
Dr. Phil
"May you have the courage to break the patterns that no longer serve you, with grace for the version of yourself that once needed them."
Tory Elleto
"People don’t have problems; they have solutions that have not worked."
Erik Erikson
"The greatest sources of our suffering are the lies we tell ourselves."
Bessel van der Kolk
"Recovery isn’t about learning the new, it’s about unlearning the old."
Unknown
"Your wound is probably not your fault, but your healing is your responsibility."
Denice Frohman
"To the man who only has a hammer in the toolkit, ever problem looks like a nail."
Abraham Maslow
"We repeat what we don’t repair."
Unknown
"Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder."
Henry David Thoreau
