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We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
Sep 10, 2025
That's all drugs and alcohol do, they cut off your emotions in the end.
It is 10 years since I used drugs or drank alcohol and my life has improved immeasurably. I have a job, a house, a cat, good friendships and generally a bright outlook.
Mock the devil, and he will flee from thee.
Sobriety was the greatest gift I ever gave myself.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
The greatest revolution of our generation is the discovery that human beings, by changing the inner attitudes of their minds, can change the outer aspects of their lives.
Getting sober was one of the three pivotal events in my life, along with becoming an actor and having a child. Of the three, finding my sobriety was the hardest thing.
It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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'.
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.
The mind is its own place, and in itself, can make heaven of Hell, and a hell of Heaven.
Any addict in recovery would say that life never becomes perfect. Your life is better, but that doesn't mean it's easier. Life, at least for a certain period of time, becomes harder and you have to work through that to get to the light at the end of the tunnel.
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.
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.
Each generation has to stand up for democracy. It can't take anything for granted and may have to fight fundamental battles anew.
Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.
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.
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.
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.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!
I want what I want when I want it.
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.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.