Sobriety Quotes - Page 2

• Laughter is day, and sobriety is night; a smile is the twilight that hovers gently between both, more bewitching than either.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Happiness, Smile, Laughter

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• 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 I'm still a nutcase.

  Steve-O

  Inspirational, Thinking, Important

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It must never be forgotten that the purpose of Alcoholics Anonymous is to sober up alcoholics. There is no religious or spiritual requirement for membership. No demands are made on anyone. An experience is offered which members may accept or reject. That is up to them.

  Bill W.

  Spiritual, Religious, Acceptance

  Robert Fitzgerald, Ed Dowling, Bill W. (1995). “The Soul of Sponsorship: The Friendship of Fr. Ed Dowling, S. J. and Bill Wilson in Letters”, p.32, Hazelden Publishing

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• There are women succeeding beyond their wildest dreams because of their sobriety.

  Mary Karr

  Inspirational, Dream, Succeed

  "Mary Karr, Alcoholic Mother, Recalls Shame of Addiction" by Sean Dooley and Shana Druckerman, abcnews.go.com. April 27, 2010.

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• When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

  Caroline Knapp

  Inspirational, Drinking, Alcohol

  Caroline Knapp (1999). “Drinking: A Love Story”, p.263, Dial Press

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• People still question my sobriety, my commitment to the program, and that hurts. I take things day by day, and sometimes I take them minute by minute, but I honor my commitment to stay sober.

  Tom Arnold

  Inspirational, Hurt, Commitment

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• You can't legislate sobriety.

  Robert Zemeckis

  Inspirational

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• All places where women are excluded tend downward to barbarism; but the moment she is introduced, there come in with her courtesy, cleanliness, sobriety, and order.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Order, Moments, Cleanliness

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1868). “The Chimney-corner”, p.32

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• Work is my hobby, staying sober is my job.

  Christian Slater

  Jobs, Hobbies, Sober

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• Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

  Moliere

  Inspirational, Wise, Perfect

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• I really needed to dramatize and clarify that Rachel was taking strides towards her own healing and her own sobriety - and that she was actually thoroughly frightened about what she may have done.This was something that was so beautifully done in the book [The Girl on the Train] through inner monologue, but I couldn't just have a whole film filled with inner monologues. So going to Alcoholics Anonymous was a very simple solution to that problem.

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Book, Healing

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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  Relationship. R-E-L-A-T-I-O-N-S-H-I-P means this: Really exciting love affair turns into overwhelming nightmare. Sobriety hangs in peril.

  Gary Busey

  Mean, Nightmare, Affair

  "Q+A: The Men of Celebrity Wife Swap". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. January 3, 2012.

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• One has to recognize that science is not metaphysics, and certainly not mysticism; it can never bring us the illumination and the satisfaction experienced by one enraptured in ecstasy. Science is sobriety and clarity of conception, not intoxicated vision.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Illumination, Vision, Satisfaction

  Ludwig Von Mises (1960). “Epistemological Problems of Economics”, p.48, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• ... the economic advantages of sobriety have never been doubtful.

  Ida Tarbell

  Economic, Advantage, Doubtful

  Ida Minerva Tarbell (1916). “New Ideals in Business, an Account of Their Practice and Their Effects Upon Men and Profits”

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• I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.

  Daniel Baldwin

  Inspirational, Couple, Moving

  "Comeback Kid Daniel Baldwin Still Waiting for Lindsay Lohan to Call, Turned Down 'DWTS'" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.

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• It is most absurdly said, in popular language, of any man, that he is disguised in liquor; for, on the contrary, most men are disguised by sobriety.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Drinking, Beer, Men

  Thomas De Quincey (1841). “Confessions of an English Opium-eater: Being an Extract from the Life of a Scholar”, p.89

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• We start with people who are motivated to get paid and be on TV, and we end up with people who have been transformed by the experience and go on to embrace sobriety. If they relapse, like most of my patients do, we continue to support and treat them. I'm thrilled that five out the eight [Celebrity Rehab cast members] showed up for after-care, and two more committed to coming back.

  Drew Pinsky

  Eight, Two, People

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• something has been said for sobriety but very little.

  John Berryman

  Beer, Littles, Said

  John Berryman (2014). “77 Dream Songs: Poems”, p.64, Macmillan

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• Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety.

  Moliere

  Couple, Perfect, Good Sense

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• I do not live in the world of sobriety.

  Oliver Reed

  World

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The lesson is that you can still make mistakes and be forgiven.

  Robert Downey, Jr.

  Mistake, Recovery, Lessons

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• First, Resolve upon, and daily endeavour to practise, a life of seriousness and strict sobriety.

  David Brainerd

  Inspirational, Firsts, Endeavour

  Jonathan Edwards, David Brainerd (1807). “The Works of President Edwards;: Narrative of conversions. Life and diary of the Rev. David Brainerd. Mr. Brainerd's journal. Mr. Brainerd's remains”, p.491

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• Any damn fool can navigate the world sober. It takes a really good sailor to do it drunk.

  Francis Chichester

  Inspirational, Funny, Drinking

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• I once heard a sober alcoholic say that drinking never made him happy, but it made him feel like he was going to be happy in about fifteen minutes. That was exactly it, and I couldn't understand why the happiness never came, couldn't see the flaw in my thinking, couldn't see that alcohol kept me trapped in a world of illusion, procrastination, paralysis. I lived always in the future, never in the present. Next time, next time! Next time I drank it would be different, next time it would make me feel good again.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Procrastination, Thinking

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.100, Penguin

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