Phil Valentine quotes

Phil Valentine quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“The further I get into recovery, the less I know.”
-- Phil Valentine

#Recovery Quotes #Addiction Quotes
“You are in recovery if you say you are.”
-- Phil Valentine

#Recovery Quotes #Addiction Quotes

“A prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over the period of only six hundred years, would not only free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune, but would lead to a recovery which today seems scarcely conceivable.”
“It's a different kind of economic recovery. The kind where bankers steal trillions and you don't have a job.”
“But if, if you take a look at what would have happened, I mean, do we need to see soup lines down the street to figure out what would have happened? We avoided - and all economists will tell you that millions of jobs were saved because of the Recovery Act, and we avoided a second Great Depression. That, that is a reality.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. October 10, 2010.
“What is addiction, really? It is a sign, a signal, a symptom of distress. It is a language that tells us about a plight that must be understood.”

Source : Alice Miller (2008). “Breaking Down the Wall of Silence: The Liberating Experience of Facing Painful Truth”, p.126, Basic Books
“Everyone has an addiction, mine happens to be you.”
“You must pay the price if you wish to secure the blessings.”
“Prisons do not disappear social problems, they disappear human beings. Homelessness, unemployment, drug addiction, mental illness, and illiteracy are only a few of the problems that disappear from public view when the human beings contending with them are relegated to cages.”
“People who drink to drown their sorrow should be told that sorrow knows how to swim.”
“I was hell bent on destruction... it was like being possessed by a demon.”
“Drugs don't really fix anything, except for everything.”

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