A Quote by Phil Valentine

The further I get into recovery, the less I know. — © Phil Valentine
The further I get into recovery, the less I know.

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Phil Valentine
Born: 1959
You can forget about recovery. There is no recovery - and there's not going to be any recovery. Recovery is an impossibility.
The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.
But my activities have been pretty much focused in the last almost 30 years on the recovery, of my own recovery, the understanding for my family of my recovery.
I love to be surprised or challenged or told that I know less than I thought that I knew. I know it's an old saw, but the older I get the less I know I know.
If you have high self-esteem, you might still know times of emotional suffering, but less often and with faster recovery-your resilience is greater.
I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.
Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes.
What we experience in our childhoods that comes to seem normal, or even inevitable, is that if you are placed in a hierarchy, you probably are immediately anxious about going further down and you're striving to go further up, so your energies get placed into becoming "more than," or at least not becoming "less than," instead of becoming "part of."
I understand the world of addiction. I get it. I know how fleeting recovery can be.
The further you get from nature, the less happy you are; and the nearer, the more exultant you become over the world and all that there is in it.
When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.
The extremist agenda of the Obama administration is forcing unwarranted higher energy costs upon Americans and further threatening an already sluggish economic recovery.
Every 10 years, I know less about love and relationships. The smarter I get, the less I know.
What can I say that will make people that are in recovery want to stand up and support Recovery Month? A friend of mine said, 'You know, the fact that you did a really honest book and it changed people's lives, that's something to talk about.'
The further away you get from being a straight white man, the less freedoms you have to figure out who you are and negotiate what you mean to society.
One wants recovery to start from the bottom, and the other wants it to start from the top. I don't know which is right. I've never heard of anybody suggesting that they might start it in the middle, so I hereby make that suggestion. To start recovery halfway between the two, because it's the middle class that does everything anyhow. But I don't know anything about it.
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