Sobriety Quotes - Page 4

• There's not a drug on earth can make life meaningful

  Sarah Kane

  Inspirational, Meaningful, Drug

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.220, A&C Black

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• The capacity for emotional sobriety belongs to everybody in the human family and leads to a fully human response to the adventure and goodness of the gift of human life.

  Thomas Keating

  Adventure, Emotional, Goodness

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• Recovery is about purpose and meaning in life, not “sobriety” and meetings.

  Stanton Peele

  Recovery, Purpose, Meaning Life

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• Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Passive Aggressive, Sober

  Gandhi (Mahatma), Horace Gundry Alexander, National Committee for the Gandhi Centenary (1968). “Mahatma Gandhi: 100 years”

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• The image the Republicans have of themselves needs the image they have of the Democrats to bring it into sharp focus. The Democrats are plainly a disreputable crowd; the Republicans, by contrast, are men of standing and sobriety. Many a middle-class American in many a small town has had to explain painfully why he chose to be a Democrat. No middle-class American need feel uneasy as a Republican. Even when he is a minority--for example, among the heathen on a college campus--he can, like any white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant, warm himself before his little fire of self-esteem.

  Clinton Rossiter

  Self Esteem, College, Men

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• My anger made me drink as an escape from reality, a way of forgetting. But you don't know when the medicinal effect ends and the poisoning begins ... This is my sixth year of sobriety. Overcoming alcoholism has been my greatest challenge and my greatest reward.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Reality, Years, Challenges

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• Do not let the hero in your soul perish.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Hero, Recovery

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.2269, Penguin

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• It's a trip when people take sobriety for granted. Feeling trapped in my addiction and then getting sober - you appreciate it so much more, because I didn't know if I would ever know what it's like to feel normal again, ever.

  Eminem

  People, Appreciate, Addiction

  Source: www.rapbasement.com

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• In my life, I find that in sobriety, I feel much more. And I have much more depth.

  Jeffrey Tambor

  Depth, Feels

  "Actor Jeffrey Tambor On 'Transparent': 'I Loved It From The Very Beginning'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. December 30, 2015.

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• Sobriety is okay enough," Denny says, "but someday, I'd like to live a life based on doing good stuff instead of just not doing bad stuff. You know?

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Stuff, Someday, Enough

  Chuck Palahniuk (2001). “Choke: A Novel”, Anchor Books

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• Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

  Herman Melville

  Inspirational, Christian, Drinking

  Moby Dick ch. 3 (1851)

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• I hate feelings. Why does sobriety have to come with feelings?

  Augusten Burroughs

  Hate, Feelings, Doe

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Dry”, p.181, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together.

  Francis Bacon

  Philosophy, Book, Men

  Francis Bacon (1824). “The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England”, p.11

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• Republics demanded virtue. Monarchies could rely on coercion and "dazzling splendor" to suppress self-interest or factions; republics relied on the goodness of the people to put aside private interest for public good. The imperatives of virtue attached all sorts of desiderata to the republican citizen: simplicity, frugality, sobriety, simple manners, Christian benevolence, duty to the polity. Republics called on other virtues--spiritedness, courage--to protect the polity from external threats. Tyrants kept standing armies; republics relied on free yeomen, defending their own land.

  James Monroe

  Christian, Army, Simple

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• It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Moderation, Vow

  Mahatma Gandhi (1929). “Young India”

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• There is a road to freedom. Its milestones are obedience, endeavour, honesty, order, cleanliness, sobriety, truthfulness, sacrifice, and love of the fatherland.

  Adolf Hitler

  Honesty, Sacrifice, Order

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• My goal is to make something special and pure, and that keeps me going, keeps me busy on the path of sobriety.

  Ariel Pink

  Goal, Special, Path

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Children, Adults, Hateful

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• My sobriety isn't up for discussion, but as for vices, I seem to hack away at them with my invisible machete from dawn till dusk. The vice of 'more' is an ongoing theme.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Dawn, Vices, Ongoing

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• Obviously it's fun to let yourself go and eat a pint of Haagen Dazs, but being healthy feels the best. Sobriety and health is the greatest thing.

  Jeff Bridges

  Fun, Healthy, Feels

  "Exclusive: Oscar Nominee Jeff Bridges On Crazy Heart - The RT Interview". Interview with Rosamund Witcher, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. March 1, 2010.

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• Here's the path to sobriety: Play the Ron Paul drinking game. Watch CNN and take a drink every time someone says his name.

  Doug Stanhope

  Drinking, Games, Play

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• I have raised the morals and sobriety of the people.

  James Larkin

  Inspirational, People, Moral

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• Employment gives health, sobriety, and morals.

  Daniel Webster

  Giving, Employment, Moral

  Daniel Webster (1851). “The Works”, p.231

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• One thing I learned in sobriety is to stop being judgmental, to always be discerning. When I drive, that will be my bumper sticker.

  Kevin Sessums

  Judgmental, Bumper Sticker, Discerning

  Source: www.thedailybeast.com

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• Education gives sobriety to the young, comfort to the old, riches to the poor and is an ornament to the rich.

  Diogenes

  Giving, Comfort, Ornaments

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