When you can stop you don’t want to, and when you want to stop, you can’t… – Luke Davies
Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see. – Bill Wilson
Once the enabling stops, the recovery is given the opportunity to start.
Recovery is an acceptance that your life is in shambles and you have to change it.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. – Dale Carnegie
No one is immune from addiction; it afflicts people of all ages, races, classes, and professions.
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles one has overcome trying to succeed. – Booker T. Washington
Addiction is an adaptation. It’s not you-it’s the cage you live in. – Johann Hari
Facing it, always facing it, that’s the way to get through. Face it. – Joseph Conrad
I drink to stay warm, and to kill selected memories…
Addiction is a symptom of not growing up. – C. C. DeVille
Do not think that what your thoughts dwell on does not matter. Your thoughts are making you. – Bishop Steere
The deepest human defeat suffered by human beings is constituted by the difference between what one was capable of becoming and what one has in fact become. – Ashley Montagu
You can get the monkey off your back, but the circus never leaves town.
The worst drugs are as bad as anybody’s told you. It’s just a dumb trip, which I can’t condemn people if they get into it, because one gets into it for one’s own personal, social, emotional reasons. It’s something to be avoided if one can help it.
It’s a beautiful day to be sober.
Until I went to rehab, I didn’t understand what it did. – Aaron Neville
We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything. – Blaise Pascal
The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one’s desire for escape and abstinence from one’s addiction.
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