He could still remember how the first sip of wine made him…

“Not much more than a broke disgrace who's hooked on tonics, so excuse him if his poker face has puke on it.”

— Hannibal Lecture

“Not in My Backyard (NIMBY) does not work. Opiate addicts live in our communities and in our families & they work in our businesses.”

— Steven Kassels

“Like all sex and love addicts, I can feel someone’s attention and attraction from a hundred yards away—hell, I can feel them from the…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“This madman must be stopped.”

— Dianne Harman

“It was difficult to know where to find comfort, especially since I could no longer medicate myself with my oldest and deepest fantasy: that…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“Stepping out of other people’s drama cycles was scary, weird, and difficult for me at first. I felt guilty for keeping the focus on…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“If you ever feel alone, just remember someone else is feeling the same. Loneliness’s greatest weapon is making you believe you’re the only one—the…

— Brittany Burgunder

“What [my patients] care about is my presence or absence as a human being. They gauge with unerring eye whether I am grounded enough…

— Gabor Maté

“We exist to fully participate in the creation our own lives.”

— Toni Sorenson

“Mom rubbed the back of my neck and we kept walking, away from the kids and the colors and the high-pitched, happy voices. Seeing…

— Amy Sargent Swank

“But what really matters is what's under the hood, and without continued attention to routine maintenance and repairs, it isn't long before the same…

— William Cope Moyers

“As I listened to the other addicts share their life experiences, I began to hear the story of my own life, told in a…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“People often talk about crawling into the rooms of recovery on their knees, but when I turned to twelve-step for the second time, I…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“A nation forgetting its own laughter is in a sad state of affairs”

— Sherry Marie Gallagher

“If I were to create a word that more accurately describes alcoholism and addiction, I would say it was dependencyism. Sounds silly, doesn't it?…

— Chris Prentiss