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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.
Sep 10, 2025
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.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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.
Reality is just a crutch for people who can't cope with drugs.
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.'
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
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.
Life is very interesting... in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.
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.
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
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!
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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