Sobriety Quotes - Page 3

• A failure remains a failure only if we refuse to learn from it. Any situation that teaches us greater humility, sobriety, wisdom about self and others, responsibility, forgiveness, depth of reflection, and better decision making -\-\teaching us what's truly important-\-\is not an ultimate failure. Sometimes what we deem a failure at the time it happens actually serves to foster a change within us that creates an even greater success down the road.

  Marianne Williamson

  Teaching, Humility, Responsibility

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• We're all looking at the people around us, the people who have gone before us who have succeeded in recovery and have long-term sobriety and they are an illustration for us of how good it can be.

  Scott Stevens

  Recovery, Illustration, Long

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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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• Do not let your fire go out ... Do not let the Hero in your soul perish ... Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Real, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• Having a moment of clarity was one thing; I'd had moments like that before. It had to be followed with a dedicated push of daily exercise. It's a trite axiom, but practice DOES make perfect. If you want to be a strong swimmer or an accomplished musician, you have to practice. It's the same with sobriety, though the stakes are higher. If you don't practice your program every day, you're putting yourself in a position where you could fly out of the orbit one more time.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Strong, Inspiration, Exercise

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• Sobriety is love of health, or inability to eat much.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability, Temperance

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• I think your resources are feeling. Your resources are depth. Your resources are learning. Your resources are touching and feeling. And for me, sobriety helps and aids all of that.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Thinking, Touching, Feelings

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  Jonathan Swift

  Inspirational, Life, Birthday

  Jonathan Swift (1768). “The works of Dr. Jonathan Swift ...: With the author's life and character; notes, historical, critical, and explanatory; tables of contents, and indexes. More complete than any preceding edition ... Accurately corrected by the best editions”, p.153

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• To gain that which is worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else

  Bernadette Devlin

  Inspirational, Women, Hippie

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• For gin, in cruel sober truth, supplies the fuel for flaming youth.

  Noel Coward

  Fuel, Youth, Sober

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• Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it.

  Mark Twain

  Dark, Doors, Liberty

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.383, Courier Corporation

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

  Ayn Rand

  Lonely, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books

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• (The new boyfriend) knows I write every day for hours but has no idea that all I’m writing about is me. It seems wiser to let him think I’m an aspiring novelist instead of just an alcoholic with a year of sobriety who spends eight hours a day writing about the other 16.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Eight

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• Moderation is like sobriety: you would like to have some more, but are afraid of making yourself ill.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Risk, Moderation, Ill

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• The smaller the drink, the clearer the head, and the cooler the blood.

  William Penn

  Blood, Drink, Temperance

  William Penn (1841). “Fruits of solitude in reflections and maxims relating to the conduct of human life. A new ed”, p.21

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• There is no better high than discovery.

  E. O. Wilson

  Inspirational, Recovery, Discovery

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• What people think of you is none of your business.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Missing You, Recovery

  Twitter post from Jun 24, 2012

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• In Kafka we have the modern mind, seemingly self-sufficient, intelligent, skeptical, ironical, splendidly trained for the great game of pretending that the world it comprehends in sterilized sobriety is the only and ultimate real one – yet a mind living in sin with the soul of Abraham. Thus he knows Two things at once, and both with equal assurance: that there is no God, and that there must be God.

  Erich Heller

  Real, Intelligent, Self

  Erich Heller (1975). “Franz Kafka”, Viking Pr

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• The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Travel, Women, Real

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• Oppression makes wise men mad; but the distemper is still the madness of the wise, which is better than the sobriety of fools.

  Edmund Burke

  Wise, Men, Mad

  Edmund Burke, Robert MONTGOMERY (Author of “Satan.”.) (1853). “Edmund Burke: being first principles selected from his writings. With an introductory essay by Robert Montgomery”, p.153

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• Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. He recounts the decency and regularity of former times, and celebrates the discipline and sobriety of the age in which his youth was passed; a happy age which is now no more to be expected, since confusion has broken in upon the world, and thrown down all the boundaries of civility and reverence.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Men, Discipline, Broken

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• The well-ordered mind knows the value, no less than the charm, of reticence. The fruit of the tree of knowledge ... falls ripe from its stem; but those who have eaten with sobriety find no need to discuss the processes of digestion.

  Agnes Repplier

  Fall, Tree, Mind

  Agnes Repplier (1916). “Counter-Currents”

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• Even after several hospitalizations for alcohol and drug-related nervous breakdowns, poet Edna St. Vincent Millay defined sobriety as restricting her daily intake of liquor to a liter and a half of wine.

  Judith Thurman

  Wine, Alcohol, Drug

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• We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

  William Saroyan

  Congratulations, Wisdom Experience, Substance

  "My Heart's in the Highlands". Book by William Saroyan, 1939.

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• I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me.

  Winston Churchill

  Military, Drinking, Taken

  In Quentin Reynolds By Quentin Reynolds (1964) ch. 11

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