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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.

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

    Travel   Women   Real  
  • Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.

    Louisa May Alcott (2015). “LOUISA MAY ALCOTT Ultimate Collection: 16 Novels & 150+ Short Stories, Plays and Poems (Illustrated): Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys, A Modern Mephistopheles, Eight Cousins, Rose in Bloom, Jack and Jill, Behind a Mask, Lulu's Library, The Abbot's Ghost, A Garland for Girls…”, p.2033, e-artnow
  • I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

    Funny   Pain   Memories  
    Edgar Allan Poe, Simon Marsden (1988). “Visions of Poe: a personal selection of Edgar Allan Poe's stories and poems”, Michael Joseph
  • And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

    J.K. Rowling (2015). “Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination”, p.38, Hachette UK
  • Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.

  • Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  • No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.

  • Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.

    Louisa May Alcott (2009). “Work: A Story of Experience: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.305, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better

    De la Suggestion et de Ses Applications (1915)
  • Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

    Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin
  • Every habit he's ever had is still there in his body, lying dormant like flowers in the desert. Given the right conditions, all his old addictions would burst into full and luxuriant bloom.

    Lying   Flower   Recovery  
    Margaret Atwood (2004). “Oryx and Crake”, p.276, Anchor
  • When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.

    "Candy: A Novel of Love and Addiction". Book by Luke Davies, June 16, 1998.
  • Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.

  • The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.

    Strength to Love (1963) ch. 3
  • Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

  • 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.

    Real   Hero   Recovery  
    Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin
  • Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.

    "Why democracy will last". Margaret Thatcher's second Carlton Lecture at the Carlton Club in central London, www.margaretthatcher.org. November 26, 1984.
  • Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.

  • I guess the worst day I have had was when I had to stand up in rehab in front of my wife and daughter and say 'Hi, my name is Sam and I am an addict.'

  • Do not let your fire go out.

    Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books
  • Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • Addiction should never be treated as a crime. It has to be treated as a health problem. We do not send alcoholics to jail in this country. Over 500,000 people are in our jails who are nonviolent drug users.

    Country   Jail   People  
    "Nader Endorses Legal Marijuana". Associated Press, www.nytimes.com. September 09, 2000.
  • Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

    Lonely   Hero   Recovery  
    Ayn Rand (2016). “Atlas Shrugged”, p.817, Hamilton Books
  • Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.

    Abraham Lincoln (1989). “Abraham Lincoln: Speeches & Writings Part 1: 1832-1858: Library of America #45”, p.197, Library of America
  • Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.

  • I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.

    Mistake   Mean   Recovery  
  • Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections but instantly set about remedying them -- every day begin the task anew.

  • The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help they have no hope.

    "My life without drugs" by Russell Brand, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2013.
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