Quotes About Sobriety

being sober delivered almost everything drinking promised.

Maybe, I thought, after a few months of sobriety, you could successfully smoke marijuana again, or maybe every anniversary you got to have one glass of a perfectly chilled California Chardonnay.

The speaker at the meeting, a blonde woman in a fine tailored suit, shared how alcoholism had stolen her own childhood, and had now come back for her child.

They taught us that extending ourselves to others would help us stay sober and sane. But they also wanted us to extend ourselves to our own horrible selves, get ourselves a lovely cup of tea. It was and is the hardest work ever.

my disease wanted me dead, but would settle for getting me drunk...

Drinking would shut down my seeing and my hearing and my feeling,' she used to say. 'Why would I want to be in the world if I couldn't touch the world with all of my senses intact?

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

U?ng r??u s? Ä'óng l?i t?m nhìn, kh? n?ng nghe và c?m xúc c?a bà, bà v?n hay nói v?y. T?i sao bà l?i mu?n s?ng ? trên ??i này n?u không th? ch?m vào th? giá»›i b?ng t?t c? các giác quan còn nguyên v?n c?a bà?.

The first year I was sober was probably the worst year of my life. My immune system was screwed. I completely isolated myself. I was weak all the time. I didn't know who I was.

Drugs have played no significant factor in my life.

Simplicity is always a virtue.

I'm 27 years clean, and when you get clean, you see things in a different way. It makes your life so much more manageable.

I don't want to spend the rest of my life talking about when I used to drink or when I used to take drugs. I'm more interested in the future.

I think if you're doing alcohol and drugs, the chances of you surviving this kind of a pace are next to nothing. I live an extremely healthy life.

Don't use barbiturates before going on stage. And be honest.

I've been a practicing alcoholic and drug addict for most of my life.

I know for one thing that alcohol will have no more part in my life.

In the middle of a crazy and drunk life, you have to hang onto the good and sober moments tightly.

I am always writing music. I have got unlimited ideas because I have been clean and sober for my entire life.

I don't drink anymore. That's a huge - that's a massive - difference in my life. It's made a huge change in my touring.

Stop drinking was the best thing I've done in my entire life. I'm so happy I did that.

It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs.

If one can create a purposeful, meaningful life then there's no room for drugs or alcohol. It's not on the list anymore.

After years of making wrong decisions in my life, in 1977 I found out that it was all right to be square, simple, and sober.