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AffirmationsThe 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 GodToday 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.For more affirmations - Something Fishy
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QuotesKnowing is not enough; we must apply.Willing is not enough; we must do.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAnd 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 BlackabyWe must be willing to let go of thelife we have planned so as to have thelife that is waiting for us.- E.M. ForesterNot everything that is faced can bechanged, but nothing can be changeduntil it is faced.- James BaldwinOur greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising every time we fall.ConfuciusThe best way out is always through.Robert FrostTry not to become a man of success but a man of value.Albert EinsteinEvery artist was first an amateur.Ralph Waldo EmersonDost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.Benjamin FranklinMost of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.Ralph Waldo EmersonThe best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.Elbert HubbardLife's a voyage that's homeward bound.Herman MelvilleTo live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.Samuel ButlerLife is a pure flame,and we live by an invisible sun within us.Sir Thomas BrownThe essential thing is not knowledge, but character.Joseph Le ConteWe so often lookso long and soregretfully uponthe closed door,that we do not seethe ones which open for us.- Alexander Graham Bell"You cannot stay the way you are and go with God." -Henry BlackabyIt requires less character to discover the faults of others, than to tolerate them.J. Petit SennSow 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 BoardmanTalents are best nurtured in solitude. Character is best formed in the stormy billows of the world. Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheReputation is for time; character is for eternity.J. B. GoughIf you hear a voicewithin you say, “Youcannot paint,” then byall means paint, and thatvoice will be silenced.- Vincent Van GoghA wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.Francis BaconThe great and glorious masterpiece of man is to know how to live to purpose.Michel de MontaigneIf you don't know where you are going,you'll end up someplace else.Yogi BerraIt is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.Francois De La RochefoucauldYou can neverdiscover new oceansuntil you have thecourage to lose sightof the shore.- UnknownA wise man learns by the mistakes of others,a fool by his own.Latin Proverb“There come a time when youthink everything is fi nished... thatwill be the beginning.”- Louis L’AmourYou must do the thingyou think you cannot do.- Eleanor RooseveltInsist on yourself. Never imitate.Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.Hecato, Greek philosopherEverybody wants to be somebody;nobody wants to grow.Johann Wolfgang von GoetheHeed the still small voice that so seldom leads us wrong, and never into folly.Marquise du DeffandArguing with a fool proves there are two. Doris M. SmithBe courteous to all, but intimate with few;and let those be well-tried before you give them your confidence. George WashingtonLook to be treated by others as you have treated others.Publius SyrusOur doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.William ShakespeareHe that is down needs fear no fall.John BunyanNever let the fear of striking out get in your way.George Herman "Babe" RuthOne who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity to more intelligently begin again.Henry FordThe greatest mistake you can make in life is to continually be afraid you will make one.Elbert HubbardOur greatest glory consist not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.Oliver GoldsmithWhat would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?Vincent van GoghIt is idle to dread what you cannot avoid.Publius SyrusFor more quotes-Inspirational Quotes
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