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Affirmations
The King is enthralled by my beauty.
Recovery is a process, not an event.
Progress, not perfection!
To be upset over what I dont have is to waste what I do have.
I forgive myself and others, release the past and move forward with love in my heart.
I am created in God's image.
I am a daughter of the King.
I will persist until I succeed.
I can go the extra mile today.
I will hold on. I will be brave. I am almost there. I will never give up.
Walking away from something that is bad for me is not quitting!
I will not feel guilty for caring for myself.
I will not be hard on myself today.
I will forgive in order to move forward.
No one can make me a victim unless I allow them to.
I am naturally beautiful when I am myself.
If I expect recovery to be easy, I will become frustrated. The easy stuff doesn't teach us much what is difficult and challenging enhances my growth.
I am a child of God
Today I will take every chance to participate in life, not control it.
I will be proud of my strengths and nurture them.
I will choose what is really important to me before I run out of time.
Remaining optimistic will help me experience joy.
I will live my life in the way I want to be remembered.
I have been justified and redeemed.
In Christ Jesus, I have wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption.
My body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who dwells in me
I am joined to the Lord and am one spirit with him.
God leads me in the triumph and knowledge of Christ.
I am a new creature in Christ.
I am no longer a slave but a child of an Heir.
I have been set free in Christ.
I have been blessed with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places.
Because of God's mercy and love, I have been made alive with Christ.
I am God's workmanship created to produce good works.
I am a citizen of heaven.
God supplies all my needs.
Negative thoughts will NEVER help; they will ALWAYS hurt me.
I will never please everyone and that's okay.
When I look back at my past I will look tenderly and gently at all I have been through. I will be proud of my accomplishments and how far I have come.
One step at a time. That is how I will get where I am going.
I am not afraid of making mistakes.
I can stop punishing myself with fear.
I deserve to recover.
I cannot climb uphill by thinking downhill thoughts.
I can move away from self-defeating habits.
I have choices. I can choose new responses to old situations. I can learn to recognize my true needs and choose positive ways of satisfying them. I can choose recovery-NOW!
I will aim to follow my meal plan and let life happen.
I am grateful to wake up in the morning alive and alert, free of the after affects of a binge. I am grateful to go through the day ready for work, play, problems, and challenges. I remember what it was like before (in the midst of the ed). I do not want to go back to that place.
I grow by doing what’s hard to do.
I will accept today’s challenges to grow.
I no longer need to spend large blocks of time obsessing.
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Quotes
Knowing is not enough; we must apply.
Willing is not enough; we must do.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin
"When you believe that nothing significant can happen through you, you have said more about your belief in God than you have said about yourself."
-Henry Blackaby
We must be willing to let go of the
life we have planned so as to have the
life that is waiting for us.
- E.M. Forester
Not everything that is faced can be
changed, but nothing can be changed
until it is faced.
- James Baldwin
Our greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.
Confucius
The best way out is always through.
Robert Frost
Try not to become a man of success but a man of value.
Albert Einstein
Every artist was first an amateur.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Dost thou love life?
Then do not squander time,
for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
Elbert Hubbard
Life's a voyage that's homeward bound.
Herman Melville
To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
Samuel Butler
Life is a pure flame,
and we live by an invisible sun within us.
Sir Thomas Brown
The essential thing is not knowledge, but character.
Joseph Le Conte
We so often look
so long and so
regretfully upon
the closed door,
that we do not see
the ones which open for us.
- Alexander Graham Bell
"You cannot stay the way you are and go with God."
It requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.
J. Petit Senn
Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.
George Dana Boardman
Talents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Reputation is for time; character is for eternity.
J. B. Gough
If you hear a voice
within you say, “You
cannot paint,” then by
all means paint, and that
voice will be silenced.
- Vincent Van Gogh
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Francis Bacon
The great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.
Michel de Montaigne
If you don't know where you are going,
you'll end up someplace else.
Yogi Berra
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You can never
discover new oceans
until you have the
courage to lose sight
of the shore.
- Unknown
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others,
a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
“There come a time when you
think everything is fi nished... that
will be the beginning.”
- Louis L’Amour
You must do the thing
you think you cannot do.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
Insist on yourself. Never imitate.
What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.
Hecato, Greek philosopher
Everybody wants to be somebody;
nobody wants to grow.
Heed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.
Marquise du Deffand
Arguing with a fool proves there are two.
Doris M. Smith
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few;
and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence.
George Washington
Look to be treated by others
as you have treated others.
Publius Syrus
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
He that is down needs fear no fall.
John Bunyan
Never let the fear of striking out get in your way.
George Herman "Babe" Ruth
One who fears failure limits his activities.
Failure is only the opportunity to more
intelligently begin again.
Henry Ford
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.
Our greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?
Vincent van Gogh
It is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.
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