Being Sober Quotes

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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• I personally believe this: We have only today; yesterday's gone and tomorrow is uncertain. That's why they call it the present. And sobriety really is a gift... for those who are willing to receive it.

  Ace Frehley

  Inspirational, Believe, Yesterday

  Ace Frehley, Joe Layden, John Ostrosky (2011). “No Regrets”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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• I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

  Winston Churchill

  Funny, Beauty, Sarcastic

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• The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

  William Butler Yeats

  Drinking, Food, Humor

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• The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Religious, Atheist

  George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

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• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Christian, Drinking

  Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

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• Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day-in and day-out.

  Robert Collier

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Robert Collier (2013). “Riches Within Your Reach”, p.188, Simon and Schuster

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• Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

  Dale Carnegie

  Funny, Faith, Time

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How to Stop Worrying and Start Living”, p.372, Simon and Schuster

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• Being sober on a bus is, like, totally different than being drunk on a bus.

  Ozzy Osbourne

  Drunk, Different, Sober

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• Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.

  Gary Oldman

  Inspirational, Children, Recovery

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• Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

  Tom Robbins

  Fun, Adventure, Destiny

  Tom Robbins (2003). “Still Life with Woodpecker”, p.19, Bantam

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• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Trust, Faith, Believe

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• Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.

  H. G. Wells

  Wise, Sorry, War

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• I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Recovery, Thinking, Sober

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• I got sober. I stopped killing myself with alcohol. I began to think: 'Wait a minute - if I can stop doing this, what are the possibilities?' And slowly it dawned on me that it was maybe worth the risk.

  Craig Ferguson

  Recovery, Thinking, Addiction

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• Getting sober just exploded my life. Now I have a much clearer sense of myself and what I can and can't do. I am more successful than I have ever been. I feel very positive where I never did before, and I think that's all a direct result of getting sober.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Successful, Thinking, Sober

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Be careful what you pray for.

  Janet Morris

  Recovery, Fate, Praying

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.234, Paradise Publishing

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Sobriety, Passive Aggressive

  Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

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• The grief and tears didn't wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet.

  Anne Lamott

  Grief, Feet, Tears

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• I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Recovery, Tired, Health

  "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• There is no better high than discovery.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Discovery

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• As supportive as my hometown is, in my high school, there are people who would probably walk up to me and punch me in the face. There's a select few that will never like me. They don't like what I stand for. They don't like somebody who stands for being sober, who stands for anything happy. They're going to be negative no matter what.

  Taylor Swift

  School, People, Supportive

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• All I know is that after 10 years of being sober, with huge support to express my pain and anger and shadow, the grief and tears didn’t wash me away. They gave me my life back! They cleansed me, baptized me, hydrated the earth at my feet. They brought me home, to me, to the truth of me.

  Anne Lamott

  Pain, Grief, Home

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• I'm sure that being sober all these years accounts for my ill humor.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Years, Sober, Ill

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