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.

You can’t legislate sobriety.

My mind may be sober, but my confidence is high!

I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

Just as others pray daily, you should think to yourself daily about what you can do to be closer to this Ideal Image. Think: “What can I do today to make my life better?” “What...

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.

Lead’s erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they’re drinking and it’s cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it’s her fantasy

achieving true sobriety goes beyond abstinence. it’s also about healing your soul, apologizing for damage you did to other, and seeking forgiveness.

Your best days are ahead of you. The movie starts when the guy gets sober and puts his life back together; it doesn’t end there.

Honesty. Sobriety. My virginity. No way to regain the first two, I almost gave away the last.

Getting sober is a radically creative act.

And now I’m right back where I started. Sober and miserable.

Gately can’t even imagine what it would be like to be a sober and drug-free biker. It’s like what would be the point. He imagines these people polishing the hell out of their leather and...

Sex parties, alcohol and drugs lost their appeal to Sven after a while. Music never did, in his continual search for that sober connection–intimacy with one person over a long period of time, as opposed...

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunk Christian.

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

Cut.Take gazillion and one.This time with a little less weepy-weepy, please. A little less improvisation. A little less lip. A little more faith. A little more higher power. A little more prayer, a little less...

Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly...

Sometimes…Sometimes doubt is the opposite of faith, but sometimes doubt can be a pathway to faith.Sometimes weakness is the opposite of strength, but sometimes weakness can be the pathway to strength.Sometimes addiction is the opposite...

I wanted a drink. There were a hundred reasons why a man will want a drink, but I wanted one now for the most elementary reason of all. I didn’t want to feel what I...

The social prestige of wine at table and at the club must be destroyed through lofty example and polite ridicule; forces which are not always available, and for whose successful operation much time will be...

Be your OWN celebrity!

Be grateful. These feelings, no matter how painful, are part ofliving. Today, we are alive—not anesthetized, not sedated, not passedout. Take control of your feelings and through action you can change.Today, as every day of...

There are hours for rest, and hours for wakefulness; nights for sobriety and nights for drunkenness—(if only so that possession of the former allows us to discern the latter when we have it; for sad...

And even in the open air the stench of whiskey was appalling. To this fiendish poison, I am certain, the greater part of the squalor I saw is due. Many of these vermin were obviously...

You don’t have to make it big, but you do have to make a big impact.

It’s hard to walk a straight line when you have nothing to hold onto

Ô, wine!, the truth-serum so potent that all those who wish to live happy lives should abstain from drinking it entirely!… except of course when they are alone.

It is no longer necessary to preach sonorously of the sinful and deleterious effect of liquor on the human mind and body; the essential evil is recognised scientifically, and only the sophistry of conscious immorality...

And you know what the worst thing was?The worst thing was that nobody ever believed how hard we tried.

When you quit drinking you stop waiting.

I was angry at myself for my inclination to vice. I longed for the day when a state of frenzy would lead my mind to sober pasture, just as it had for Saint Augustine. I...

Though at times interested in reforms, notably prohibition (I have never tasted alcoholic liquor), I was inclined to be bored by ethical casuistry; since I believed conduct to be a matter of taste and breeding,...

Everything must be carried out in extreme sobriety.

And I’d started thinking about my mother’s last weeks–the way she’d drifted listlessly about the house in her dressing gown, cigarettes in one hand, glass of something strong-smelling in the other.

Gwynn, she was always talking about wanting to be drunk and honestly I did want to encourage that, I wanted to go to a bar with her and let all the stuff sobriety pushed down...

We want ecstasy as a way of life, not a liver-poisoning alcoholiday from it.

I lived to be forgotten because I’d forgotten how to live