Recovery Timeline Quotes & Sayings

One who is publicly honest about himself ends up by priding himself somewhat on this honesty: for he knows only too well why he is honest-for the same reasons another person prefers illusion and dissimulation. — Friedrich Nietzsche

We have reached the end of the road that is built on the set of traits held out for male identity
advance at any cost, pay any price, drive out all competitors, and kill them if necessary ... we have arrived at a point from which we must seek a basis of faith in connection
and not only faith but recognition that it is a requirement for the existence of human beings. — Gary Paul Nabhan Stephan Trimble

God is nearer to us than our own spirit — Julian Of Norwich

Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges. — George Orwell

There are some authors who contend that meanings and values are "nothing but defense mechanisms, reaction formations and sublimations." But as for myself, I would not be willing to live merely for the sake of my "defense mechanisms," nor would I be ready to die merely for the sake of my "reaction formations. — Viktor E. Frankl