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It's difficult to believe in yourself because the idea of self is an artificial construction. You are, in fact, part of the glorious oneness of the universe. Everything beautiful in the world is within you.
Sep 10, 2025
I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
As one goes through life, one learns that if you don't paddle your own canoe, you don't move.
If you can quit for a day, you can quit for a lifetime.
Every noble work is at first impossible.
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.
Every experience in your life is being orchestrated to teach you something you need to know to move forward.
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery.
We may think there is willpower involved, but more likely... change is due to want power. Wanting the new addiction more than the old one. Wanting the new me in preference to the person I am now.
My identity shifted when I got into recovery. That's who I am now, and it actually gives me greater pleasure to have that identity than to be a musician or anything else, because it keeps me in a manageable size. When I'm down on the ground with my disease-which I'm happy to have-it gets me in tune. It gives me a spiritual anchor. Don't ask me to explain.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
Addiction beggins whith the hope that something 'out there' can instantly fill up the emptiness inside.
Look the world straight in the eye.
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.
People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.
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.
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.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish.
Decide that you want it more than you are afraid of it.
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.
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.'
No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
No man or woman is uniformly successful... we must all expect a rather high percentage of failure in the things we attempt.
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.
When you can stop you don't want to, and when you want to stop, you can't.
Do not let your fire go out.
Take a chance! All life is a chance
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism.
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No stream or gas drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.
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.
Day by day, in every way, I am getting better and better
The world you desire can be won, it exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
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.
Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.
Courage is not the absence of fear...
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.