by Lisa Frederiksen
One of the problems for those in recovery — the family member, friend and/or alcoholic/addict — is the tendency to get stuck in a thought loop or to find oneself reverting to an old reaction, over and over and over, again. The following quotes may 
help you to jar your thinking when those old, embedded neural thought networks kick-in.
“We cannot tell what may happen to us in the strange medley of life. But we can decide what happens in us — how we can take it, what we do with it — and that is what really counts in the end.” Joseph Fort Newton
“Forgiving is not forgetting, it’s letting go of the hurt.” Mary McLeod Bethune
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.” John Burroughs
“It does not matter how slowly you go
So long as you do not stop.” Confucius
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.” Pearl Bailey
“The question is not what a man can scorn, or disparage, or find fault with, but what he can love, and value, and appreciate.” John Ruskin
“If you work on your mind with your mind, How can you avoid an immense confusion?” Seng-ts’an
