Define Quote by Leslie Jamison Download Open image “Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'” — Leslie Jamison ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Define Freedom How Liberation Me Response Sobriety
“The initial journey towards sobriety is a delicate balance between insight into one's desire for escape and abstinence from one's addiction.” — Debra L. Kaplan Copy Share Image
“Staying sober is easy once you have been successful in healing the underlying conditions that were responsible for your dependency in the first place.” — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
“achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it's also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.” — Lou Gramm Copy Share Image
Sobriety has a way of allowing a person to begin to realize that the things that you do have consequences for the people that… — Sam Levinson Copy Share Image
Sobriety has opened my mind and unlocked parts of me that I didn't even realize existed. — Spencer Matthews Copy Share Image
I can't emphasise enough how grateful I am to have come upon sobriety. — Naveen Andrews Copy Share Image
Having this message of sobriety and recovery to blast out into the world is also very powerful and kind of the reason why I'm… — Frankie Grande Copy Share Image
People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them… — Tom Arnold Copy Share Image
Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings. — Stanton Peele Copy Share Image
“The hardest thing I had to deal with in sobriety was my own anger and the violence I lived through in my childhood. I… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
When people ask what kind of nonfiction I write, I say 'all kinds,' but really I mean I don’t write any kind at all:… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
It's one of the most liberating things I experience in writing - letting yourself get rid of a gesture or character or plot point… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
In my own life as a reader I experience real moments of alienation when a writer feels too perfect, or like even the flaws… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I do like arranging things. I like order. I basically like all these things that are the opposite of what people associate with the… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
I used to believe that hurting would make you more alive to the hurting of others. I used to believe in feeling bad because… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
“I obsessed, and told myself this obsession was empathy. But it wasn't, quite. It was more like inpathy. I wasn't expatriating myself into another… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Post-wounded women know that postures of pain play into limited and outmoded conceptions of womanhood. Their hurt has a new native language spoken in… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
12-step recovery is very focused on abstinence, and that's bled into the broader understanding of treatment. It would be most useful to have multiple… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Don't define the game by the list of the features. Define it by the experience you want to have. — Todd Howard Copy Share Image
I don't want my title to define my character. I don't think, as a president, I will change. — George Weah Copy Share Image
Well, I don't know how they define that. But they have this Texas blues thing blown kinda out of proportion. I am a Long… — John Hunter Copy Share Image
If I had to define my philosophy, it would be about exploration, a journey, a story-telling. — Hussein Chalayan Copy Share Image
I think the word 'soul' - it depends on what you define by 'soul.' If you're defining it as a mystical aura that is… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
To define the era we live in is very difficult. How do we define it? We define it by music. — Donatella Versace Copy Share Image
I think in some ways we have allowed other people to set the agenda. Other people to define who we are. — Lee Scott Copy Share Image
“Your past and your pain will certainly impact you, but they don’t have to define you. You get to write your own definition.” — Scott Stabile Copy Share Image
“No love defines us as much as the losses we have made in its name.” — Laura Chouette Copy Share Image