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A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Sep 10, 2025
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
See what it is you would like to attract into your life. See how you would like your business to go, your relationships to go, and even your body to go in terms of overcoming addictions and dealing with weight and health issues.
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.
Alcohol ruined me financially and morally, broke my heart and the hearts of too many others. Even though it did this to me and it almost killed me and I haven't touched a drop of it in seventeen years, sometimes I wonder if I could get away with drinking some now. I totally subscribe to the notion that alcoholism is a mental illness because thinking like that is clearly insane.
I am a community social psychologist and a lot of my work deals with social work and helping people overcoming addiction and trauma.
Life is meant to be a celebration! It shouldn't be necessary to set aside special times to remind us of this fact. Wise is the person who finds a reason to make every day a special one.
It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.
Look the world straight in the eye.
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
No one's happiness but my own is in my power to achieve or to destroy.
And so rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.
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.
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.
Drugs are merely the most obvious form of addiction in our society. Drug addiction is one of the things that undermines traditional values.
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] - 'I shall have heroin, but I shan't have a hamburger.' What a sexy little paradox.
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.
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.
Master books, but do not let them master you.
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
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