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The support and encouragement of others is like a powerful fuel that drives us forward in life.
Janice Trachtman
The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.
Hubert H. Humphrey
The only way to have a friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The support of friends and family is like a lifeline to those struggling with addiction.
Anthony F. O'Neil
Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.
Woodrow T. Wilson
The support of friends is what makes the journey of recovery possible.
Anonymous
Friendship is the golden thread that ties the heart of all the world.
John Evelyn
The support of friends is like a beacon of hope that shines through the darkness of addiction.
Anonymous
Friendship is the key to overcoming addiction, as it provides the love and support needed to heal.
Anonymous
Enabling is the art of diminishing the problem, soothing the pain, and allowing the addict to continue on their destructive path.
Timothy P. O'Malley
Enabling is not helping. It is doing something for someone that they could and should be doing for themselves.
Dr. Claudia Black
Enabling is like trying to hold someone up while they are jumping off a cliff.
Unknown
Enabling an addict is like pouring gasoline on a fire.
Unknown
Enabling is not love. It is fear.
Unknown
Enabling is a form of self-sabotage.
Unknown
Enabling is a temporary fix to a long-term problem.
Unknown
Enabling is a vicious cycle that only leads to more pain and suffering.
Unknown
Enabling is the easy way out, but it is not the right way.
Unknown
The only way to change someone's mind is to connect with them from the heart.
Rasheed Ogunlaru
Addiction is a disease, but it is also a choice. We choose to use, and we can choose to stop.
Unknown
Addiction is a lonely disease, but recovery is a team sport.
Unknown
Addiction is a monster; it lives inside, and feeds off of you, and it is always hungry.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the final form of love.
Reinhold Niebuhr
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt
Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Mark Twain
Forgiveness is the giving, and so the receiving, of life.
George MacDonald
Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi
Forgiveness is not an occasional act, it is a constant attitude.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Forgiveness is the only way to heal.
Caroline Myss
Forgiveness is the final form of acceptance.
Unknown
Forgiveness is the key to unlocking the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hate.
Corrie ten Boom
Sometimes the best way to help someone is to stop helping them.
Unknown
Tough love may be tough to give, but it is a necessity of life and assurance of positive growth.
T.F. Hodge
Loving an addict is really hard. You have to love them enough to be firm with them.
Unknown
The greatest gift you can give someone is your own recovery.
Unknown
Sometimes the most loving thing you can do is say no.
Unknown
Addiction is a monster that can destroy friendships and relationships.
Unknown
It's not about giving up on someone, it's about giving them the space to save themselves.
Unknown
Tough love is often the kindest love because it is aimed at helping someone grow and become the best version of themselves.
Unknown
Friendship is built on two things: respect and trust. Both elements have to be there. And it has to be mutual. You can have respect for someone, but if you don't have trust, the friendship will crumble.
Stieg Larsson
Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships.
Stephen Covey
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
Ernest Hemingway
Trust is the lubrication that makes it possible for organizations to work.
Warren Bennis
Trust is the foundation of all human connections, from chance encounters to friendships and intimate relationships.
David DeSteno
Addiction is a monster that destroys everything in its path, including friendships.
Anonymous
Addiction is a lonely road, but you don't have to walk it alone.
Anonymous
Addiction is a disease, and it's important that we treat it as such. We need to support our friends who are struggling.
Demi Lovato
Addiction is a powerful disease that can destroy even the strongest of friendships.
Anonymous
Addiction is a thief that steals your friends, your family, and your life.
Anonymous
Addiction is a disease that affects not only the person struggling with it but also their friends and loved ones.
Kristen Johnston
Addiction is a disease that can make even the closest of friends feel like strangers.
Anonymous
Addiction is a disease that thrives in isolation. The support of friends can make all the difference.
Anonymous
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Jamie Lee Curtis
The only way to change is to change.
Unknown
The only journey is the journey within.
Rainer Maria Rilke
Recovery is not for people who need it, it's for people who want it.
Unknown
The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give. In any case, the giving of love is an education in itself.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The only way to have a good friend is to be one.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.
Hubert H. Humphrey
Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It's not something you learn in school. But if you haven't learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven't learned anything.
Muhammad Ali
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.
C.S. Lewis
The language of friendship is not words but meanings.
Henry David Thoreau
Friendship is not about whom you have known the longest...It's about who came, and never left your side.
Unknown
Honesty is the cornerstone of all success, without which confidence and ability to perform shall cease to exist.
Mary Kay Ash
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.
William Shakespeare
Honesty is the fastest way to prevent a mistake from turning into a failure.
James Altucher
Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth-telling, truth-speaking, truth-living, and truth-loving.
James E. Faust
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
Honesty is the best image.
Tom Wilson
Honesty is the foundation of all human connection. Without it, trust is impossible.
Oprah Winfrey
Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in.
Richard Jeni
Addiction is a family disease; one person may use, but the whole family suffers.
Unknown
Addiction is a monster that destroys everything in its path, especially the ones we love.
Unknown
Addiction is a lonely road, but it doesn't have to be a lonely journey.
Unknown
Addiction is a thief that steals from the people who need you the most.
Unknown
Addiction is not a choice, but recovery is.
Unknown
Addiction is the only prison where the locks are on the inside.
Unknown
Addiction takes you to the darkest places, but recovery brings you back to the light.
Unknown
Addiction will only stop when we stop feeding it.
Unknown
Addiction: a disease that makes you too selfish to see the havoc you created or care about the people whose lives you have shattered.
Unknown
The best way to overcome addiction is through community.
Don Coyhis
Friendship is the key to getting through the hardest times in life.
Unknown
The only way to change the world is to help people change their lives.
Unknown
Friendship is the foundation of recovery.
William Moyers
We are all in this together, and together we can overcome addiction.
Unknown
The power of friendship and mutual aid is stronger than any addiction.
Unknown
The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention.
Rachel Naomi Remen
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi
The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.
Peter Drucker
True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.
George Washington
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.
Thomas Aquinas
Friendship is the shadow of the evening, which increases with the setting sun of life.
Jean de La Fontaine
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
Eustace Budgell
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
Aristotle
The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.
Henri Nouwen
Friendship marks a life even more deeply than love. Love risks degenerating into obsession, friendship is never anything but sharing.
Elie Wiesel
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