“I asked him, half-seriously, if he ever asked God to help him give it up. ‘The drink? I only have the courage… — Neil Boyd Copy Share Image
Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell. — Anthony Boucher Copy Share Image
Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I think it's important for me to show the world that sobriety hasn't made me soft. I'm on a mission to prove… — Steve-O Copy Share Image
“Believe that is cure is possible for you. Discover and heal the underlying causes with a holistic recovery program. Adopt a philosophy… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Be all of you subject one to another having your conduct blameless among the Gentiles, that you may both receive praise for… — Polycarp Copy Share Image
It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic but acceptance was the key to my… — Dennis Eckersley Copy Share Image
“And I'd started thinking about my mother's last weeks--the way she'd drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in… — Anna Davis Copy Share Image
Temperance keeps the senses clear and unembarrassed, and makes them seize the object with more keenness and satisfaction. It appears with life… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Nothing can temper the spirit of a warrior as much as the challenge of dealing with impossible people in positions of power.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“If I could open a vein. Not to inject any shit, I will never weaken like that again, but just to feel… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
I know a lot of people connect with my story. Every night that I do shows, I get emails and texts and… — Shane Bunting Copy Share Image
We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have… — Scott Stevens Copy Share Image
“I'd much rather spend all day on the Santa Monica pier playing Asteroids than delve into the murk and analyze myself. And… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
“In the seventy-six years since AA was created, 12-step programs have expanded to include over three hundred different organizations, focusing on such… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
In her memoir, Anne Robinson recounts the wake-up call which motivated her to stop drinking. Leaving her eight-year-old daughter alone in their… — Anne Robinson Copy Share Image
One meaningful distinction between high and popular culture, is that there's way more good popular culture - because its standards of quality… — Robert Christgau Copy Share Image
“The degradation woven through these steps also seems unwittingly designed to exacerbate, rather than relieve, the humiliating feelings so common in addiction.… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that… — Jess C. Scott Copy Share Image
And let no one suppose that I claim that just living can be taught for, in a word, I hold that there… — Isocrates Copy Share Image
“I had an idea that sobriety was a weapon. I thought it would give me an advantage over my enemies. I wasn't… — Robert Charles Wilson Copy Share Image
Above all things endeavor to breed them up the love of virtue, and that holy plain way of it which we have… — William Penn Copy Share Image
“Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
“In 2006, one of the most prestigious scientific research organizations in the world, the Cochrane Collaboration, conducted a review of the many… — Lance Dodes Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter for crap that you've got three years of sobriety or that you finally look good in a two-piece bathing… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go… — Michelle Tea Copy Share Image
Cultivate these, then, for they are wholly within your power: sincerity and dignity; industriousness; and sobriety. Avoid grumbling, be frugal, considerate, and… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
“We shared an explosive enthusiasm that we blasted out of our bodies with alcohol. It was almost a sport. We tore through… — Ariel Levy Copy Share Image
